UPDATE: This diary has been widely misconstrued (see comments below). It uses extreme imagery and terminology to animate my point that the Republican party routinely manipulates ruthless stereotypes about progressives/liberals to further their political goals. My diary is intended to conjure up a scenario where the left uses identical cruelty against the right. Its extreme nature demonstrates how we are desensitized to cruelty against the left but that the right has been comparatively unscathed. It is intended to pique the question of whether this strategy is working for the right and we should go this far.
I've been thinking pretty deeply about what would be the consummate sound byte to encapsule all of the bigotry, illiteracy, hypocricy, and arrogance of the (majority but certainly not all) BC04 voters. Finally, it came to me. They are, by and large, white trash. One need look no further than www.werenotsorry.com to see the tobacco-chewin' "ready to brawl" males propped beside the toadlike uneducated obese females. We've heard, time and again, variations of the "I don't want my money going to the blacks" and "God hates fags" mentality that typifies the degenerate whites coming from the BC04 voters. And we've seen the born-again evangelicalism that too commonly preys on the "drunk-by-noon, spankin'-my-kids-in-the-trailer" types spearheading the moral superiority of the BC04 agenda.
It's not difficult to see the strong similarities your average obnoxious BC04 voter shares with the cast of any given Jerry Springer episode. Would it be an exaggeration to say a vote for Bush is a vote for white trash? Perhaps, but not anymore than it would be an exaggeration to preach about "tree-hugging" liberals being the "darlings of the homosexual agenda." I think it's a powerful meme. In a nation of soundbytes, intelligent and comprehensive just equates to longwinded. Short and sour is the way to go. A vote for Republicans is a vote for White Trash.