Demon-crats? A Case In Point ...

SEE HERE Our local newspaper ran an editorial piece on this past Friday which is a dramatic case in point on Demon-crats. Now I coined "demon-crats" to characterize the Democrat party's propensity to not argue on the basis of facts and principles but rather by demonizing their opposition. Let me give the DNR's quotes of Olbermann and highlight the demon-crat moves:

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“In short, in Scott Brown we have an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, teabagging supporter of violence against woman and against politicians with whom he disagrees. In any other time in our history, this man would have been laughed off the stage as an unqualified and a disaster in the making by the most conservative of conservatives. Instead, the commonwealth of Massachusetts is close to sending this bad joke to the Senate of the United States.”

Not content with that defamation, Mr. Olbermann opined further after Brown’s victory:

“I wanted to apologize for calling Senator-elect Scott Brown an ‘irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, tea bagging, supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees.’ I’m sorry, I left out the word ‘sexist.’” (emphasis added by me)

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Now explain to me where in this particular verbal vomiting there is anything but demonizing. He not only demonizes Scott Brown, but apparently doesn't like nude models or tea party protesters. Notice that in the entire quote there isn't a single attempt to present any facts or principles in anything like a reasoned fashion. Now my position is that this is fairly characteristic of the left. You can go and look at any time. One of my favorite tests was to google "Ann Coulter" and then click on images. See how many are the visual equivalent of this kind of stuff. Ann Coulter does tend to label leftists, but mostly by lampooning their positions and saying that the positions are stupid. She scores more style points than "this kind of invective and vitriol" as the DNR editorial featured it. They point out that this seems to be mainstream liberal thinking. Yup ... that's what I mean by Demon-crats.