For shits and giggles, I Googled "Chambliss groping daughter" just to see what kind of hit count is up on the Thanksgiving video and it's substantial. Which I find amusing. But what doesn't amuse me is the ignorant stereotyping of Southerners that shows up in the comments on the Democratic blogs linking the video.
You know what I'm talking about. Old incest jokes about Southerners keeping sex in the family, crap about IQ's dropping a point for every degree south of the Mason-Dixon line. Phrases like knuckle-dragger and mouth-breather.
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We've been gloating about the potential of this video to sour voters on Chambliss. And I sincerely hope that it does. But when we make Chambliss the poster boy for the entire region, we slander the very people we hope to persuade.
If we're serious about helping Martin win, we've got to stop belittling his constituency. Imagine Georgia voters tapping into these blogs and finding comments one after another caricaturing Southerners as in-breeding Neanderthals.
Not a winning strategy for GOTV.