Now if we REALLY knew how to frame... [View All]

[Plaid Adder]

...here's how we would play the whole "party of white Christians" comment.

Republican Outrage Machine: How dare Howard Dean say that the Republican Party is the party of white Christians?

Democratic Framing Task Force: So are you saying that white Christians are not welcome in the Republican Party?

ROM: No!

DFTF: So then you are the party of white Christians.

ROM: But...we have lots of people in the party who aren't white or Christian!

DFTF: Is that because you think there's something wrong with being the party of white Christians?

ROM: No! We just think it's important to have a big tent, and--

DFTF: So is your tent big enough to include gay people?

ROM: Uh...sure. Sure it is.

Coalition of Loony Christian Right-Wing Groups: We are outraged that the Republican Outrage Machine has knuckled under to pressure from the liberal media and claimed that gay people are welcome in the Republican Party. Our divinely appointed spokesman, whose media statements come from the mouth of God himself, wishes to reiterate that gay people are not welcome in the Republican Party or indeed anywhere in this God-fearing land with the possible exception of our projected but not yet completed mass re-education camps in Death Valley.

ROM: Shut up, COLCRWG, I'm trying to frame here.

COLCRWG: Actually, what you're doing is blaspheming. Witness to our gospel, bitch, or we're gonna paddle your electoral ass till it's got more welts than Dobson's corduroys.

DFTF: Hey ROM, do you know these people?

ROM: You stay out of this.

DFTF: You want some help breaking that chokehold?

ROM: Shut up.

DFTF: Hey, is that rumbling I hear the sound of people running like hell out of your big tent?

ROM: I don't like this game any more.

Well, we can dream,

The Plaid Adder