[Cheburashka]

Do you ever get the feeling that people like the Jersey Girls and Cindy Sheehan are like part of a coven practicing their evil veiled by their "loss" which gives them a free pass to act and say things irresponsibly.
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I call it wellstoning, after the deceased Minnesota senator.

Wellstoning is the cynical exploitation of the death of a loved one as a political tool to make political attacks to which response by the opposition is inhibited by the normal respect given to people who have suffered a loss. We saw it at the Wellstone memorial, we see it at from Cindy Sheehan, and we see it from the Jersey Girls.

In my mind it is a debasement of the admittedly tragic death of the loved one by the deceased's own family member(s), and if after a certain period they continue to engage in it they are more than fair game.

To all the lefties: stop telling lies about us and we'll stop telling the truth about you.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

wellstoning

I like it.

You're right - if they lie about "swiftboating," by all means we should tell the truth about "wellstoning." As Ann has so nobly and so ably done.

[soccermom]

"I call it wellstoning, after the deceased Minnesota senator."

OK, but what people seem to forget is that the Wellstone Memorial was a fiasco for Democrats. The voting public saw it for the shameless ploy it was and Republicans won in a tidal wave. So what if democrats want to become the definition of insanity by continuing to use a failed stunt? I think Ann did us a disservice by giving credence to a tactic that would have failed on its own.