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Too Much Hyperbole

By Triscuit - Sep 17th, 2008 at 2:57 pm EDT

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I've noticed an upswing in harshly worded rhetoric against Republican supporters. People are calling anyone who has voted for Republicans a bigot, or selfish, or ignorant. And while I can certainly understand a degree of satisfaction in doing this, I think that we need to avoid painting with such a broad brush. It isn't helping us, and it is feeding the myth that Democrats are elitist and have little in common with people who vote conservatively.

I don't think some people understand what a golden opportunity we have here. 8 years of clearly corrupt politics have fractured the Reagan coalition, leaving the RNC in a sorry state. If Democrats could stop pointlessly agitating the moderate conservatives with hyperbole, we could pick up a lot of voters.

It is completely ineffective to label every Republican as a racist, or call them all religious nutjobs, or say, "You are all evil and self-centered." It does nothing but rile up the party, and cause them to vote against Democrats.

The point that needs to be made is that the party leadership has abandoned the core ideals, that business and corrupt lobbyists control the party instead of voters, that the GOP has been hijacked by the social fundamentalists, and that the Republican party isn't serving the public good.

Everyone can see that it is completely immoral for McCain to be lying to the public. We can all see that the Bush administration is in bed with business lobbyists. And that the neo-conservative whackos in power are ignoring traditional conservative values like small government, sound fiscal management, and individual constitutional freedoms.

We all understand the seriousness of the problems facing our nation after 8 years of Republican leadership. Our economic difficulties are directly tied to the lack of oversight of the financial markets, which was caused by deregulation under the same man that McCain picked as his economic adviser.

We can all see that this nation needs dialogue, not talking points. And that this nation doesn't need power mongers in Washington who spend all their time pandering for votes instead of solving America's problems. And that when the RNC filibusters five times as often as normal it stalls out Congress and inhibits the conduct of good government.

These are near universal understandings that are causing moderates to move away from a party that no longer represents them, but they are being undermined by personal attacks by liberals. We need to stop drawing lines in the sand, and start showing moderate conservatives that the Democratic Party is a lot more amenable to their views than the RNC is.

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