MSNBC - Validation By Defeat: "homophobic, gun-obsessed, economically suicidal, antiscience, theocratic dunces"

Last week George Will chastised a small percentage of the Democratic Party for their stereotyping of Bush voters as “homophobic, gun-obsessed, economically suicidal, antiscience, theocratic dunces.”

While the pundits look to the war and moral values as the reason President Bush won the vote, the reality of the situation is that his reelection campaign started over ten years ago. At this time Conservative talk radio began it’s own four part campaign 1) proclaiming the victimization of Conservatives by Liberals, 2) splitting America into two parts, us (Conservatives) and them (Liberals) 3) stereotyping Liberals (i.e. big government loving, tree hugging, American hating, pacifist, etc.) and eventually 4) assigning any contrary argument as Liberal and not worthy of debate.

The point has been reached where Liberal is a dirty word and most self-identified Conservatives have no idea what it means to be a Conservative other than voting for a Republican. This process has been good for the Republican Party but bad for the country, bad for Conservative ideals and intellectually repulsive. After a decade Democrats are finally beginning to wise up and take their turn at flinging scum.