And the same political agenda drives health care: "The evil Republican people want to take away your baby's doctor -- they want your [insert color here] baby to DIE because they're all heartless, baby-eating white racists!"
In 1964, 'Rat political organizers and campaigners did the same thing with Social Security and welfare, telling Louisiana voters that Barry Goldwater was going to take X and Y away from them if elected.
The Louisiana electorate voted for Barry anyway out of principle. And I distinctly remember, two years later, my college history prof, who had been one of the young smartasses retailing that giant lie for LBJ's campaign, sitting on his desk in the classroom laughing at the rubes and hicks who'd been so stupid they voted against their own self-interest, and voted for Barry Goldwater! What idiots! Ha, ha!
Those old Cajuns had more character on the worst day of their lives than that clown, when he finally stops polluting our oxygen, will ever have wanted to have.
More than anything else, that long-ago moment crystallized for me how rotten is the heart of the Democrat Party. I've despised them utterly ever since, no matter how badly I've been disappointed and disillusioned by the RiNO Party.
I'm from South Louisiana, grew up among Cajuns, and married one. That said, Cajuns can be just as short-sighted as any group, witness their performance for selecting Edwin Edwards over and over, and then electing Blanco over Jindal, both times simply because the candidate "was Cajun".