Demonizing Republicans, Day 386

Democrats repeatedly prove they don't understand Republicans: they assume we're crazy and/or stupid. Here's two recent examples.

• According to CNSN News:

  U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy implied Tuesday that congressional colleagues who do not share his support for a failed gun ban being reintroduced in the House are mentally ill. The Rhode Island Democrat also accused lawmakers who oppose the anti-gun legislation of not caring about police safety.
  
  "Any policy maker who, on the one hand, says that they are for combating terrorism but, on the other hand, will not back this legislation, backed by Representative Moran, to me has a lot of explaining to do," Kennedy said "In fact, I think it would be the definition of insanity to say that."

• Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley, a Democrat, confused the Administration with the enemy:

  [H]e compared President Bush's proposed fiscal year 2006 budget to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
  
  "Back on September 11, terrorists attacked our metropolitan cores, two of America's great cities. They did that because they knew that was where they could do the most damage and weaken us the most," O'Malley said. "Years later, we are given a budget proposal by our commander in chief, the president of the United States. And with a budget ax, he is attacking America's cities. He is attacking our metropolitan core."

And Bush = Hitler, just as Cheney = Scrooge. As I've previously written, the left's embraced every Internet conspiracy theory, abandoning "Occam's Razor in favor of post hoc, ergo propter hoc." Liberals also imagine Republicans/Conservatives are a) stupid; b) hoodwinked by conniving party leaders literally owned by "giant corporations"; or c) blinded to reality by their god or pastor. This strategy's unlikely to gain votes, says GOP Bloggers:

Democrats actually believe "the majority of American people are either too stupid to understand or were hoodwinked by tricky Republicans. In either case, the Democratic base sees no reason to alter message - they just need, in their minds, to smarten up or un-hoodwink a sufficient number of people to give them the majority. . .

I hope that the moderate Democrats are paying attention and will take action to save the two-Party system in the United States. If the Democrats really follow this road to its end, then the complete destruction of the Democratic Party is only a few years away.

Instead of modernizing their message, today's churlish Democrats know only the negative. They're empty of useful ideas, says liberal Joe Klein in Time Magazine:

The day after the President’s speech, the party’s congressional leaders gathered at the Franklin D. Roosevelt memorial to carp. How 70 years ago! “Progressive” Dems—and I use the term advisedly, since liberals seem more interested in preserving the past than in discovering the future—are right to admire Roosevelt. But the Roosevelt they worship is a bronze sculpture, frozen in time. The real F.D.R. was a gutsy innovator. The current Democrats resemble nothing so much as the Republicans during the 25 years after Roosevelt’s death—negative, defensive, intellectually feeble, a permanent minority. There are reasons to oppose this President —arrogance abroad, crony capitalism at home—but undifferentiated opposition is obtuse and most likely counterproductive. The Democrats’ current crudeness is a function of their desperation, and the imminent ratification of Howard Dean, the least charming presidential candidate in recent memory, as their party chairman only serves to punctuate the problem.

Even Hillary, for all her rightward positioning, can't stop the rot.

(via RightPundit, Wizbang)