All you folks telling me to vote. STOP scolding me! Don't Lecture Me!

[TomCADem]

When a Republican tells his base that they need to get out the vote, that is called reaching out to your base, and firing them up. When he tells them to fight that is rallying them. That is a good thing.

But when a Democrat does it, that is scolding and lecturing and you must use these words in every story you write.

Remember these are the agreed upon rules.

; )

[ibegurpard]

1. stop whining

n/t

[TomCADem]

3. How dare you lecture me!

[Individualist]

5. +1

[babylonsister]

2. No kidding. The word 'whine' is highly applicable. nt

[TomCADem]

11. But I did not get my pony!!!

Quick get me on Fox News with Grove Norquist so they can celebrate how the right and left oppose the Democrats.

:)

[Liberal Veteran]

4. Is there a scold or lecture smiley I can use on you?

:D

Oh, well. Guess I'll have to use this one: :rant:

[TheWraith]

10. No, use this....

:spank:

[depakid]

6. LOL- there's a fundamental difference between the manner in which the Republicans go about it

Krugman points out a bit of it here:

...while the Obama’s political problems are largely due to a lousy economy, it’s also true that the administration seems to go out of its way to alienate its supporters.

What I think of is the contrast between how Obama operates and how Bush operated. Bush and his handlers were masters of dog-whistle politics — of conveying to their base, in ways that went under the radar of mainstream media, the message that he was really one of them. The vaguely Biblical language about evildoers, for example, struck most mainstream commentators as being slightly odd, but never mind; what it conveyed to the religious right, however, was the message that Bush was a dominionist at heart.

Obama, however, seems to go out of his way to convey the message that although he rode to office on a wave of progressive enthusiasm, he and his people don’t respect the people who got him where he is. There are the gratuitous jabs at the “professional left”, the “both sides are wrong” rhetoric even as the right goes all out to destroy him, and stuff like Lew’s testimony. I mean, how hard would it be to have a little message discipline here?

In fact, it often seems to me that there’s an almost compulsive aspect to the administration’s anti-dog whistling. Maybe it comes from hanging out with the political and business establishment, which leads to a desire to seem respectable by dissing the DFHs. But memo to the president: Wall Street will hate you anyway. All you’re doing is undermining the enthusiasm of people you need.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/the-anti-dog-whistler/

[EFerrari]

7. Baloney. Words mean something. Gestures mean something.

Do you seriously think the Obama campaign would have done as well in 08 with "Wake up, you retards, you need a drug test. Buck up and vote, your apathy is inexcusable."

Right!

[SargeUNN]

8. don't interupt the whinning

after all if we didn't bother feeling insulted then we might have to focus on such as Demint's blocking needed legislature and we might actually see the REAL enemy.

[petersjo02]

9. OK

But be sure to vote.

[stray cat]

12. I didn't like al gore or George bush in 2000 and didn't vote - glad you support my choice

And don't hold me partly responsible for the election of bush!

[Historic NY]

13. "I belong to no organized party, I'm a Democrat." ,,,,,,& I'm voting.