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As noted in the previous article in this series, David Horowitz warns that unless the attack from the left can be blunted, "Democrats will continue to have the advantage going into combat."
He goes on to cite a perfect example of what he means, starting with this outrageous slander on ordinary Americans by Clinton strategist and Gore adviser Paul Begala.
Speaking of the 2000 election map that shows that people occupying the greatest part of the U.S. – the famous "red" area – voted for George W. Bush while the voters in the areas where Gore won were concentrated in tiny enclaves scattered around metropolitan areas, the despicable Democrat hatchetman Begala (now employed by CNN) said:
"Yes … tens of millions of good people in Middle America voted Republican. But if you look closely at that map you see a more complex picture. You see a state where James Byrd was lynched – dragged behind a pickup truck until his body came apart – it’s red. You see the state where Matthew Shepard was crucified on a split-rail fence for the crime of being gay – it’s red. You see the state where right-wing extremists blew up a federal office building and murdered scores of federal employees – it’s red. The state where an army private who was thought to be gay was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat, and the state where neo-Nazi skinheads murdered two African-Americans because of their skin color, and the state where Bob Jones University spews out its anti-Catholic bigotry – they’re all red too."
Notes Horowitz, "This is the image of Republicans that Democrat activists hold in their hearts: Republicans are racists and lynchers. Republicans should study Begala’s map because it offers a glimpse of the sniper on the other end of the gun that is always pointed at them."
One would hope that Republican candidates running in the red areas would continue to tell voters what top Democrats think of them – a bunch or murderous Nazis, skinheads and racists. And ask them if this is the party they want representing them on Capitol Hill.
Republicans, he said, could respond to this kind of Democrat Marxist slander in like fashion:
"The state where left-wing extremist terrorists blew up the World Trade Center – that’s blue. The county where a race riot following a court verdict destroyed 2,000 Korean businesses and caused the deaths of 58 people – that’s blue too. The states where Colin Ferguson and Ronald Taylor killed eight whites and Asians because left-wing race baiters convinced them they were victims of a racial conspiracy – they are blue. The counties nationwide, where the vast majority of murderers, rapists, and child molesters live and operate – those are blue, too.
"But more important than the retort is to understand what Begala’s outburst reveals about the left. The passions that motivate them are self-righteousness and hate: They hate you. They think you’re evil."
Citing some prime examples of the results of that hatred – that Republicans are Nazis and fascists who take food from the mouths of the poor or plot to deprive senior citizens of needed medical care – Horowitz observes that when so attacked, Republicans become defensive. Nothing they can do or say however, will make the Marxist Democrats stop thinking of them as racists and lynchers or wanting them politically dead.
Republicans therefore can prevail only by going on the attack. And they have lots of ammunition in their arsenal to drive the Democrats from the field of political battle.
Take the matter of taxes. Democrats say the GOP is mean-spirited and intolerant and in the pockets of "the rich" and looking for a way to pay no taxes.
In the 2000 election, Al Gore continued to charge that under Bush’s plan "for a $1.6 trillion tax cut, mostly to the wealthy, under his own budget numbers, he proposes spending more money for a tax cut just for the wealthiest 1 percent than all the new money he budgets for education, health care and national defense combined."
Inaccurate as the charge was, "the appearance of the plan [and of all Republican tax plans] is not that Republicans are the party of the wealthy who care more about themselves than those left behind. This is true even though George Bush labored hard, in his own plan to provide greater percentage cuts to working Americans with lower incomes."
The reason the charge works for the Marxist Democrats, Horowitz explains is that the Democrats have rigged the game before it starts.
"Through control of the Congress, Democrats designed the tax code to make it an unfair system of economic plunder. Under their code, the harder you work and the more jobs you create, the more you are taxed. Under their code, the bottom 50 percent pay only 5 percent of the government bill for services they are more likely to use. Therefore every fair refund of a tax surplus can be maliciously portrayed as a tax cut for the wealthy at the expense of the poor. And that’s the way Democrats portray Republican tax plans."
The effect of all this Democrat demagoguery: Because politics is about perception and the perception an across-the-board tax cut creates is an unfair ‘giveaway’ to the ‘haves’ as opposed to the ‘have nots.’ This may not fool all the people all of the time, or even most of the people some of the time. But it does create a pool of resentment and envy – powerful emotions – the Democrats convert into a political force."
Responding to this kind of attack must become a Republican priority. They must abandon the defensive and go on the offense.
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