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"Listen to me, Democrats! Never defend. Never explain. Attack, attack, attack! When a right-winger accuses you of something, back up, reframe, ignore the charges, just ATTACK. How hard can this be? Ann Coulter doesn’t waste her time defending herself against our accusations. Neither does Rush Limbaugh. They launch their attacks and the terms of the debate are set from there, and once again, as liberals, we are bringing knives to a gun fight.
"To whit:
"A Republican says, "All you liberals are cut-and-run traitors! You don’t support the troops!"
"Instead of frantically beginning to tap dance and show that you’re not a traitor and that you do support the troops, you fire back, "Why are you Republicans such cowards? Your leaders are all draft-dodgers who’ve never fired a shot at anything but a bunch of canned quails and old lawyers. You’re using the troops as human shields against the midterm elections! Do you like seeing our brave men and women in uniform slaughtered and killed? Or are you just too much of a coward to face the consequences of your failed policies in Iraq? Which is it? Do you just hate the soldiers or do you hate your constituents?"
"There. You have just put the burden of proof on the Repugnican that he/she isn’t a coward and that they don’t hate the troops. Then you set up a false dichotomy that they can’t answer without looking like a fool.
"Or say you’re lucky enough to have squared off against Ann Coulter. (I dream of four minutes of live TV with Ann Coulter!) She says, "Liberals hate science! Liberals suck terrorist dicks! Liberals eat babies! *SQUAAAAAAAACK!! SCREEECH!! AWK!! AWK!!*"
"You say, "Ann, why are you such a fascist?"
"She, of course, will say, "I’M not a fascist! LIBERALS ARE FASCISTS!" (Which is exactly what she would say, trust me.)
"You calmly respond, "But Ann, you advocate everything the Nazis did; internment camps, physical intimidation, silencing of media outlets, and murder. Everything the Nazi Party said about the Jews, you have said about liberals. You even look sort of like some kind of Aryan Dominatrix. You’re like a Brownshirt pin-up girl."
"And then sit back and watch as she goes nuclear. Now, the onus is on her to prove she’s not a fascist, which is exactly what she can’t do. (Cos she is.) You don’t respond to charges by Ann Coulter. You attack. You treat her with all the respect and courtesy that she would treat you."
-firedoglake
"To whit:
"A Republican says, "All you liberals are cut-and-run traitors! You don’t support the troops!"
"Instead of frantically beginning to tap dance and show that you’re not a traitor and that you do support the troops, you fire back, "Why are you Republicans such cowards? Your leaders are all draft-dodgers who’ve never fired a shot at anything but a bunch of canned quails and old lawyers. You’re using the troops as human shields against the midterm elections! Do you like seeing our brave men and women in uniform slaughtered and killed? Or are you just too much of a coward to face the consequences of your failed policies in Iraq? Which is it? Do you just hate the soldiers or do you hate your constituents?"
"There. You have just put the burden of proof on the Repugnican that he/she isn’t a coward and that they don’t hate the troops. Then you set up a false dichotomy that they can’t answer without looking like a fool.
"Or say you’re lucky enough to have squared off against Ann Coulter. (I dream of four minutes of live TV with Ann Coulter!) She says, "Liberals hate science! Liberals suck terrorist dicks! Liberals eat babies! *SQUAAAAAAAACK!! SCREEECH!! AWK!! AWK!!*"
"You say, "Ann, why are you such a fascist?"
"She, of course, will say, "I’M not a fascist! LIBERALS ARE FASCISTS!" (Which is exactly what she would say, trust me.)
"You calmly respond, "But Ann, you advocate everything the Nazis did; internment camps, physical intimidation, silencing of media outlets, and murder. Everything the Nazi Party said about the Jews, you have said about liberals. You even look sort of like some kind of Aryan Dominatrix. You’re like a Brownshirt pin-up girl."
"And then sit back and watch as she goes nuclear. Now, the onus is on her to prove she’s not a fascist, which is exactly what she can’t do. (Cos she is.) You don’t respond to charges by Ann Coulter. You attack. You treat her with all the respect and courtesy that she would treat you."
-firedoglake