Reply #115: Oh, baloney.

[Warren DeMontague]

Right. More "helpful advice". Turn on AM radio or FOX News, and sooner or later you're bound to hear, essentially, the following: "Put down your brie and lattes, you treasonous, terrorist-loving, god-hating, effeminate coastal wine-sipping queers... and stop slamming us red state heartland folk"

If making fun of people or insulting them is such a bad political tactic, why does the right engage in it CONSTANTLY? Who throws more fucking nasty, personal insults at people- Al Franken or Bill O'Reilly? How many times has Ann Coulter said that liberals should be beaten with bats, shot, or put in camps? Have you EVER heard Michael Moore insult rednecks?

It's NOT HAPPENING. "Alienating a big chunk of the country"-- how? What constitutes disdain? Funny, after the election we had all kinds of 'helpful' people saying that we need to jettison support for gay rights, or reproductive rights, or separation of church and state, all the while sprinkling gratuitous references to Jesus into our politics. If it's our positions that are 'alienating' these folks, I'm not sure there's a whole hell of a lot we should do about it.