{"id":10990,"date":"2008-02-06T12:32:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T18:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=10990"},"modified":"2008-02-06T12:32:17","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T18:32:17","slug":"gop-2008-green-eggs-mav-karl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=10990","title":{"rendered":"GOP 2008: Green Eggs & Mav [Karl]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles Hurt’s New York Post column,\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0applying the label “suicide voters”<\/a> to describe those who have vowed to vote for Hillary Clinton over John McCain, seems to be getting some blog buzz<\/a>.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Over time, I suspect that label will be slapped<\/a> on people who may not vote for a Democrat, but will refuse to vote for McCain.<\/p>\n

It strikes me that this is not a tactic designed to make friends or influence people, as I doubt either category will appreciate being likened to terrorists.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Moreover, it is\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0a misnomer as to the non-voter.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, people like our esteemed host<\/a> will reverse the analogy:<\/p>\n

I think a vote for McCain IS suicide \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009d just of the kind that\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s longer and more drawn out. Like slow poisoning. Or maybe being drawn and quartered by stoned, giant tortoises.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So perhaps a more cuddly,\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Seussian label is in order, such as “Green Eggs & Mav” voters.<\/p>\n

However, if people persist with the more grisly metaphor, folks less committed to refusenik status than Jeff might be approached by McCain supporters\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0with the following argument:\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 “Okay, I get that you see the choice as a choice between different methods of suicide.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 You don’t want to\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0play the role of\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Dr. Kevorkian<\/a>.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I get that — not even Dr. Kevorkian<\/a> wants to be Dr. Kevorkian these days.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Try thinking of yourself as Dr. Benjamin Franklin Pierce or Dr. John Francis X. McIntyre — confronted with the suicidal Capt. Walter Koskiusko “Painless Pole” Waldowski, DDS<\/a>, they went through the motions to stop him from really killing himself.”\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The flaw in that analogy is that the refusenik has no control over\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0the risk of a McCain presidency, in which case the McCain supporter is left to argue that\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0pills are a slow form of suicide that may still be averted by a last-minute intervention.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 In this analogy, it’s better to give someone bent on suicide the pills wile keeping the stomach pump in the trunk of your car and the cellphone set to 911, as opposed to letting someone put a gun to their head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charles Hurt’s New York Post column,\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0applying the label “suicide voters” to describe those who have vowed to vote for Hillary Clinton over John McCain, seems to be getting some blog buzz.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Over time, I suspect that label will be slapped on people who may not vote for a Democrat, but will refuse to vote for McCain. It strikes me that this is not a tactic designed to make friends or<\/p>\n

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