The Observer | Comment | Playing victim: ". . .The message is simple. The disastrous turn of events in Iraq - and the wider state of the world - has little to do with Republican mis-steps since 2000.
No, it is in fact the fault of the Democrats and their lily-livered ways. The tone used to make this point is straight from the school yard. William Kristol, editor of the Neocon bible the Weekly Standard, penned a piece this week lambasting anti-war Democrats as 'The Bugs Bunny Democrats' (because they prefer to use carrots not sticks). That is fairly mild. A current favourite phrase among Conservative commentators post-Lieberman is 'whackadoo'. As in: 'The Democrats are now controlled by the whackadoo wing of the party'. It's usually coupled with 'extremists', 'peacenicks' and that perennial favourite: 'liberal'.
Sometimes the language is that of the Cold War (Lieberman was 'purged' by the anti-war left). Or it is of the War on Terror (Lieberman himself said his opponents were on a 'jihad' against him). Ann Coulter, a right wing loud mouth who recently called Al Gore 'a fag', simply refers to Democrats as traitors. Thanks for that helpful analysis, Ann. . ."
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