Now I wonder where they got that idea?
Posted on 02/08/2006 12:15:49 PM PST by LouAvul
NEW YORK - The Republican national chairman created a furor this week when he suggested Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is too "angry" to win the White House in 2008. And to hear Republicans tell it, Clinton is just one of many Democrats with an anger management problem.
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In recent months, GOP operatives and officeholders have cast the Democrats as the anger party, long on emotion and short on ideas. Analysts say the strategy has been effective, trivializing Democrats' differences with the GOP as temperamental rather than substantive.
"Angry people are not nice people. They are people to stay away from. They explode now and then," said George Lakoff, a linguistics professor at the University of California at Berkeley. His book "Don't Think of an Elephant" has become something of a Bible for Democrats trying to improve their communication with voters.
Political history is dotted with failed presidential candidates perceived by the voters as too angry - think of Howard Dean's famous scream in 2004, or Bob Dole admonishing George H.W. Bush in 1988 to "stop lying about my record." Both parties' most revered figures in recent years, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, projected optimism and hope.
The latest example of the anger strategy came Sunday, when Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman said on ABC that Clinton "seems to have a lot of anger." He cited comments she made in Harlem on Martin Luther King Day in which she likened the Republican-led House to a "plantation" and called the Bush administration "one of the worst" in history.
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Some Democrats, in fact, complained that Clinton doesn't get angry enough. Some also denounced Mehlman as mean-spirited, and smelled more than a whiff of sexism in his remarks.
"It's the stereotype of the crone - angry, nasty, but powerful," Lakoff said.
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If they just said what they mean and mean what they said, they would communicate with the voters, alright.
Come to think of it, based on the last three elections, the voters seem to have had no trouble understanding them.
Now I wonder where they got that idea?
Maybe after she loses in 2008, she can finally divorce Billy and live for a few years before she answers to God for the harm she has wrought on this country.
At least they don't show up at public funerals and spout off...Wait a minute...
The beast is easily the most shrill "fish wife" in the Senate.
All the ranting, raving, moaning and whining certainly communicated something to me. I think we're due for more of the same this year.
And that could be our next prez? Have mercy!
lol....39,000 hits for 'angry white men'....all from leftist websites. That 'evil' Rove. He shouldn't mess with the dems pathological projection disorder this way. It's cruel.....lol
Thanks dead. I needed a laugh. Did you post this on DU yet?
Man that's a nasty mug shot.
My wife is reading REWRITING HISTORY by Dick Morris. It validates every thing Rush Limbaugh has been saying about sHillary since White Water days...
As the discredited ivory tower huckster grasps desperately to hold on to a saving cliche, he totally misses the plain daylight reality overwhelming his pathetic pseudo-tropes from every side.
It's not a sterotype anything. It's a real nasty living breathing be-atch named hillary clinton! Stupid perfessors.
Tirade it is. Is it just me? When she goes into that mode I get flashbacks of herr hitler, frothing and foaming at the mouth, shrilling his venom. She's hasn't matured out of the 1960s type postadolescent hippie antiwar rabble rouser style.
Flashbacks of the debate where Rick Lazio crossed the stage to hand her something, and the media went berserk saying that he "attacked" her and was trying to intimidate her. We're just supposed to sit there and smile while she waves her arms and screeches and makes baseless attacks and wild accusations, and then just meekly nod and agree that she's the smartest woman in the world.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
This strategy works because it is true. The most angry group in the United States today is the Democrat base. The American public sees it and the far left base does not seem to be self-aware enough to realize that they have become their own worst enemy. Day after day they deliver new gifts to the Republican party with their antics. They are like the gift-of-the-week club.
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