http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110007670
James Taranto's "Best of the Web Today" in the WSJ runs this item:
Donkeys vs. Christians
Blogger David Carson reports that the Democratic Party of Washington state last week was offering for sale car magnets showing the familiar Christian fish symbol--only inside the fish appears the word HYPOCRITE and a cross against a background of red-orange flames.
Presumably the cross-burning imagery is unintentional. Even so, the politics of this are puzzling. To be sure, there are people with a strong distaste for Christianity, and especially for Christian conservatives, but this is a fairly small group, and the vast majority of them surely vote Democratic anyway. According to Adherents.com, 82% of Americans are Christians. It's hard to see how a political party can hope to build a majority by alienating four-fifths of the electorate.
We guess this occurred to the Dems, who quickly removed the offending magnet from its Web page advertising it--but not before radio host Dori Monson saved a copy.
MY NOTE: UPDATE - Monday, 12-12-05, 2 P.M. PT
Still no response from the State Democratic Party.