I’d like to do a bit here on language. Primarily on how we have seen it distorted over the last few decades. According to George Lakoff and Geoff Nunberg, the Right has seized the rhetorical high-ground and driven Liberals into defensive postures by altering or subverting the meanings of certain words and phrases. I tend to think that, yes, they’ve done that, but that also the people who are swayed by such verbal gymnastics are by and large pre-sold on the message. Many of us out here never did buy into it.
But the effect of making those the Democratic Party has fielded to oppose them look weak did happen, even for those of us who could see through the bull shit. …