Mehlman says that the country won't elect "angry people" and is betting that scaring the simple minded half to death will work much better. But is he prepared to put his idea to the test as the searing hatred of the far right makes front page news?
Here's a crazy idea. The right wing activists send out angry chain letters full of lies, slander and libel, all of them sounding like an angry Klansman was allowed to spill his mind in these e-mails. Right wing nutjobs regularly troll message boards, submitting scathing, horrific and arrogant messages demeaning anything and everything that is not a rich, white, Angl-Saxon Protestant male who reliably votes Republican.
So what if these messages could be compiled and stitched into a book with all the SNs and names of organizations that send these things out intact? The book could then be sold dirt cheap in bookstores with provocative pictures in the front, I'm thinking something like a picture of a Klansman with a burning cross, or something really disturbing like that and entitled:
Hate: The uncensored opinions of the right wing base
Hey, if Mehlman is right about people responding poorly to hate, exposing the utter arrogance -- the slander, the lies, the gross incompetence and the sheer, seathing hatred of right wing lunatics about half a step a way from calling for a "Kluxing" as they send out tomes of steaming bullshit designed to enrage equally arrogant and ignorant people by e-mail and on message boards -- would put his theory to the ultimate test and show what really drives today's Republican elites.
Plus it would make Democrats even-headed and respectful, in the eyes of the public; an alternative party in which people rule by reason and not by hate.