First off let me ask for forgiveness for watching Judy Woodruff's "Inside Politics" this afternoon, but while I was watching she did a segment on Tom DeLay and his problems. DeLay and his backers were on the offense saying he'd done nothing wrong and it was all the fault of the liberals and the liberal media. I chuckled to myself and thought "What a whiney victim." Then it stuck me that he's just doing what republicans have been doing all along; playing the victim and should be framed as such.
I think it was Chris Matthews who named the republicans as the "Daddy Party" and the democrats as the "Mommy Party," but the problem is republicans don't act like a daddy unless it's a deadbeat dad. They are the "Victim Party."
They always have someone that's attacking them, or as they put it their "way of life." It's the liberals kicking God out of the schools and court houses. It's the liberal judges giving criminals more rights than the victims. It's the liberal media lying to the public. It's the democrat senators who won't give Bush the judges he wants. Even when they have total control of everything they still play the victim card.
My question is why don't we start calling them on this over and over again until the words "Victim" and "Republican/conservative" are synonymous? Who then would want to be associated with them? Every time they start to bame someone else for anything, even when they're right, we can come back with "There you go again playing the victim."
I've started doing this and there is nothing more demeaning to them than to be called a victim because it's hard for them to argue against. In fact it's near impossible.
What do you folks think?