Hey Republicans, you might want to rethink this town hall strategy

[blackflame2180]

So I just came across this:

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Original story here, courtesy Wonkette.

Effectively what's going on is that the nice black lady takes her seat at Clair McCaskill's Town Hall, and puts away her sign, which is of ROSA PARKS. You know, Civil Rights heroine Rosa Parks? Then a photographer comes over to get an image of the poster to talk to the lady, and

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[toothlesshag]

Lots of asshats here -

but why do you suppose she decided to bring a poster of Rosa Parks?

[toothlesshag]

Ohohohoh - okay, she just had it, she wasn't waving it around for no reason.

DAMN. Yeah.

[mediaprophet]

Intimidation? Read "guts" or "a spine" by the right. The left is still showing limp-wristed conciliatory politics in the face of this. We're getting a fucking CO-OP plan out of the DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY. Week kneed pussies. I'm voting for the other guy this primary. Whoever it is

[sophistbastard]

I love you, man.

[blackflame2180]

Call it whatever you want, it's clearly doing damage to the Republican Party that it will likely take a long time before they recover from-- and if things keep up at this rate, they may go the way of the Whigs. The numbers in this case really don't lie.

If there's one lesson that 2006 and '08 taught us, it's that Republican lies don't need to be directly addressed. They out themselves and do more damage to the Republicans in the end. In neither of those election years did a major Democrat in office have to step out to refute Republican lies-- that was instead handled rather readily by Americans actually doing their research themselves, specifically amongst the blogosphere. That's precisely what's happening here.

[mediaprophet]

Then why bother with bipartisanship? Why negotiate with or concede to a party that is self-destructing?