THERE THEY GO AGAIN!

They really cannot help themselves. 

It's embarrassing. 

And infantile. 

And a tactic losers employ when they know they're being outsmarted and outpoliticked.


This is how the GOPers behave when the person they want to vote out of the Oval Office actually plays politics like every other politician who has ever sought the presidency:

I'll start with the slanderous and malevolent comment Silverfiddle left here about Mr. Obama:


"Time to send this corrupt Chicago pol back to the stinking sewer he crawled out of."

Of course, like the other hysterical people who are deeply offended because Mr. Obama has had a few good weeks and Mr. Romney has not, SF has been extremely shy about backing up his slander with, y'know, actual evidence of Mr. Obama's "corruption."  So all his little hissyfit amounts to is calling the president he doesn't like a "poopyhead."


Here's the titular head of the GOP, Rush Limbaugh, barking at what's left of his audience:

Limbaugh: “…I’ll tell you what. I think it can now be said, without equivocation — without equivocation — that this man hates this country. He is trying—Barack Obama is trying—to dismantle, brick by brick, the American dream. There’s no other way to put this.

There's no other way to put this.

There's no other way to explain this.

He was indoctrinated as a child. His father was a communist. His mother was a leftist. He was sent to prep and Ivy League schools where his contempt for the country was reinforced. He moved to Chicago. It was the home of the radical-left movement. He hooks up to Ayers and Dohrn and Rashid Khalidi. He learns the ruthlessness of Cook County politics. This is what we have as a president: A radical ideologue, a ruthless politician who despises the country and the way it was founded and the way in which it became great.

He hates it."

And today, Mr. Romney's surrogate, John Sununu was in fine foaming-at-the-mouth form as well:

"He has no idea how the American system functions,” Sununu said on Fox News Tuesday. “And we shouldn’t be surprised about that, because he spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something, spent … another set of years in Indonesia.

John Sununu, the former governor of New Hampshire and a leading Romney surrogate, told reporters that Obama’s recent defense of public infrastructure shows he “doesn’t understand how America works.

I wish this president would learn how to be an American,”

Politics is not for sissies, that's for sure, but what is it about the GOPers that make them go after Mr. Obama with such malice and snarling hatred? 

Can you guess?

Fill in the blank_______________________________.



What happened to attacking his ideas and policies?  All of the above attacks are ad hominem and a direct assault on Mr. Obama, the man. 

The attacks are a pathetic reflection on the people making them and are always an indication of their obvious lack of the ability to intelligently and forcefully argue the issues.

It's also a losing tactic. 

No one likes loud-mouthed bullies.


Michael Tomasky:

"Who, in this context, is Mitt Romney? An ex-governor who can’t discuss his record, and an ex-capitalist who ... is getting close to the point where he can’t discuss his record. And who has been afraid for two years, or more, lest he offend Rush Limbaugh and Fox. This is not his Republican Party. It’s theirs. And Romney has given us no reason to think that will change."