Posted on 10/08/2018 5:25:09 AM PDT by PFW
Hot on the heels of attacking Judge Brett Kavanaugh as a serial gang-rapist who should not be allowed around children, Democrats are wondering if it’s “time to be more ruthless,” Politico reports.
John F. Harris writes in Politico that many “top Democratic operatives” have “the fear that their party loses big power struggles because Republicans are simply tougher, meaner, more cynical and more ruthless than they are.”
"A belief in one’s own virtue feels good. Losing a battle that could shape the American political landscape for decades feels bad. The tension between the two left some Democrats grappling anew this weekend with the implications: Maybe they really are the Wet Rag Party.
“They are more ruthless,” said Jennifer Palmieri, who over a quarter-century has served as a top aide to Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. “And I don’t want to be like them. … The answer can’t be for Democrats to be just as cynical." ...
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The word “ruthless” instantly brings to mind a Firesign Theater skit, “The Further Adventures of Nick Danger”:Los Angeles; he walks again by night. Out of the fog and into the smog (cough cough) Relentlessly, ruthlessly, (“I wonder where Ruth is?”) doggedly ...
Think this was bad. They are gonna go stark raving mad.
They will get to the point where it will be declared “open season” on them just so we can survive.
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