The DNC accuses the right wing extremist Republican base of trying to stop health care reform.
I sure hope the DNC tested which way the wind is blowing before they put this video out for public consumption. It’s my belief that the spectrum of people against government run health care is much wider than the “right wing extremist” Republican base, whatever that is.
Here’s a reminder of what Mob Rule looks like. Oh, I guess that’s what “left wing” mob rule looks like. 😉
It’s my perception that this DNC ad will backfire big time. Of course, what do I know? I guess I’m a “right wing” Republican, although I’m not a Republican (technically I’m non-affiliated), attend Church on special occasions, haven’t donated any money to the RNC or the Republican party or individual candidates, sent Bob Dole a mean e-mail once, voted the Libertarian ticket for Boulder County commissioner last year (or whenver it was) and have never been to a tea party or a health care town hall meeting. Still if I’m against government run health care, I must be a right wing extremist, right? Right… especially in the 25 square miles surrounded by reality.
And yes, I would like to attend a tea party or a town hall meeting and hopefully I’ll get the chance.
08/05/2009 @ 21:19pm
Update from the Hannity show. Here’s a video of an interview of Michelle Malkin…
I particularly like this exchange beginning at around 4 minutes….
Hannity:
….but now they are directly attacking the American people. Strategically it doesn’t seem like a wise thing to me, what do you think the fallout will be?Malkin:
I think there’s going to be a huge backlash, and that’s because they miss understand the roots of this movement, it is not something directed from the top down, the Republicans can only wish that they could have been so competent to have seen this coming. Nobody saw it coming except the people on the ground, people on the internet, people on the blogosphere. Of course Fox news was treating the tea party movement with respect while others were denigrating them and using vulgar language to talk about their role as participants in democracy. These people, I know, I’ve been to many of the tea parties, many of them are independent, many of them are as disgusted with Republicans who’ve betrayed their principals as they are with Democrats and they want what Obama promised but failed to deliver; transparency, ethics, fiscal responsibility and personal responsibility. And if Robert Gibbs and Rahm Emanuel and the entire Chicago machine think it’s going to do them well in 2010 and 2012 to keep smearing and libeling these people go ahead and keep on producing those kind of ads.
(bold is mine)
I agree with every word Michelle had to say in the above exchange. Then to ad fuel to the fire we have Pelosi commenting about whether the protesters are a true grass roots organization…
They’re carrying swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care.
For all I know that happened somewhere, there are always looneytunes on either side when emotions get high. That said, for the Speaker of the House of the United States of America to draw a generalization such as this is nothing short of disgraceful.
