Continuing to run scared, Dan Lipinski's campaign has paid for and released the kind of flyer that's usually dismissed after the fact as having been the work of an over-zealous volunteer. Its target? Mark Pera's radical left-wing, military hating, political punk supporters at Open Left and other such political hate groups.
People who raise concerns about the nepotism and carpetbagging that got Dan Lipinski elected? They're a "few cranks and chronic complainers." But that's just the beginning. The flyer goes on to roll out just about every anti-left stereotype you can think of, from geography:
These groups and their millions of dollars are not from the southwest side or anywhere around here, but from places like San Francisco, Hollywood, New York City and Massachusetts.
To Ted Kennedy:
These aren’t your garden variety liberals. The people backing Mark Pera are radical left-wingers – people who, for example, have publicly criticized Ted Kennedy could possibly be more liberal.
To elitism, anti-religion, troop-hating, blah blah blah:
The left-wing extremist groups trying to defeat Congressman Lipinski are political punks who snicker and sneer at Southwest Siders like us. They laugh at traditional values. They mock people who go to church. They dismiss senior citizens as irrelevant relics of a bygone era. They look down their educated noses at blue-collar men and women who work for a living. They bad-mouth police and other public safety employees – except when they need a cop of course. And they give the finger (figuratively and literally) to the men and women of the American military.
To being young upstarts:
[W]e were working, sweating, building and strengthening the Democratic Party while they were still crying in their cribs because their diapers were full.
I don't think he misses a single one. And if you'll look around, you'll see how wrong and lazy those characterizations are. It's actually hilarious.
But more, they're wrong, lazy Republican stereotypes of Democrats - and here, they're being used on behalf of a supposed Democrat, which is pretty revealing. There's one thing right, though.
This is a war for the heart and soul of the Democratic Party.
The heart and soul of the Democratic party shouldn't be about using Republican slurs of Democrats. It shouldn't be about supporting Bush's war or Bush's energy policy, it shouldn't be about opposing choice for women and opposing stem cell research, it shouldn't be about nepotism and corruption. That's why it's so important to support Mark Pera.
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