Left-wing blowhard and radio host Stephanie Miller has great news for her liberal cohorts. “Republican” is now a bad word. A study from NSON Opinion Strategy — yeah, I’d never heard of them before now either — said that 87% of their respondents found the word “Republican” synonymous with greed, racism, and violence.
Miller was overjoyed and shared the news with her scores of listeners:
STEPHANIE MILLER: Breaking news recent polls suggest a majority of Americans consider being called Republican insulting.
JIM WARD: Ha ha!
STEPHANIE MILLER: See here’s where we are in America, we are on the verge of marriage equality so you know when people use to call you the F word for gay man and throw gum in your hair?
JIM WARD: Ha ha!
STEPHANIE MILLER: Now that insult has been replaced with Republican. Americans
JOHN FUGELSANG: With what?
STEPHANIE MILLER: Republican, it literally they consider it an insult. 87% of Americans consider the word Republican to be synonymous with greed, racism, and violence.
JIM WARD: Yes!
STEPHANIE MILLER: Now just 22% of Americans nearly a record low consider themselves Republican.
The irony is that the Democrats embodied those attributes just a generation ago in the South during the Jim Crow era. Indeed, the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.V.) was once a kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan. What’s more, former Vice President Al Gore’s father voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and former president Bill Clinton got his start in politics in 1967 as an intern to Sen. William J. Fulbright (D-Ark.), who had filibustered the 1957 and 1964 Civil Rights Acts as well as the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Insults and people’s response to them can be revealing. The worst insults we receive are ones that are true, especially when they target faults that we’re uncomfortable admitting to ourselves.
The respondents of the survey can be divided into 2 categories, Republican and Not Republican. If you called a Republican ‘a Republican’, are they insulted? Nope. It’s like calling water wet. It’s meaningless. They might react with laughter or puzzlement, but insulted? Hardly.
In today’s U.S. political climate most people who aren’t Republican are either Independent or Democrat. These are the people who, according to the survey, view being called Republican as an insult and associated it with “greed, racism, and violence”.
Why are these non-Republicans insulted? (and really, we’re talking about liberals, since they comprise a larger percentage of the population) Because they see themselves and liberalism in the accusation of greed, racism, and violence. They may not admit it out loud, but they know it’s true, and they know we know it it’s true. It’s a raw nerve.
Sure there are Republicans with those traits but they aren’t the GOP platform. Liberalism, and the White House, works with racism, greed, and violence the way a sculptor works with a hammer and chisel.
There’s nothing new here: it’s liberal projection. They use it every day and since there’s no criticism from the media it remains an effective tactic.
There’s no link to the survey data or questions; it would be interesting to demand these details and force the writer and pollsters to substantiate their claims that 87% of 250,000 random voters found ‘Republican’ insulting. Odds are the article would be quickly disappeared.
Who?