Democrats are supposed to lie down and surrender to Republicans. They are supposed to fold under the slightest pressure, they are supposed to give in whenever possible, and above all Democrats are never, ever,
ever allowed to fight back.
Given the outright bigotry, staggering ignorance, blithe racism, horrible fearmongering and virulent rancor out there by the Tea Party, you'd think someone would notice. Alas, for the unforgivable, intolerable crime of being Democrat With A Spine,
Newsweek's George Will has named Alan Grayson the worst politician in America.
There are hundreds of plausible nominees for the title of America’s Second-Smarmiest Politician, but surely the top spot is un-contested. Americans of all political persuasions can come together in affirming one proposition: Public life would be improved by scrubbing Rep. Alan Grayson from it. This act of civic hygiene probably will be performed Nov. 2 by voters of Florida’s Eighth Congressional District. Polls indicate that a majority of them plan to deny Grayson, 52, a second term by electing his resonantly named opponent, Daniel Webster.
Nice piece of eliminationist rhetoric too: Grayson must be "scrubbed out of public life." No, you see, Grayson ran ads attacking Webster as "Taliban Dan" and that's so far beyond the pale of anything Sharron Angle, Ken Buck, Tom Tancredo, Joe Miller, or Christine O' Donnell has done that he is the one who must be "scrubbed" out.
Everything you need to know about George Will, the Village, and the vicious double standard that Democrats are held to is summed up by Will's hack piece here, including the fact that Grayson is so despised for standing up that Will declares he must be taken out of politics for good. The Wingers are lining up to let everyone know what they mean by "scrubbed" too, Ed Driscoll hoping it's
Grayson's "epitaph" and Jeff Dunetz calling him "
stupid and nasty, a deadly combination."
This is what a Democrat who refuses to buckle under must endure. And for that, he is History's Greatest Monster of the moment.
Help Alan raise his million dollars. He's extremely close right now.