re: #211 NukeAtomrod

I’d be happy to. Gen. David Petraeus was just doing the job the President hired him to do. He neither compromised on his own perceived principles or did anything other than what he was asked to do by the President and Congress. The only reason moveon used Betrayus in the ad was because they wanted to smear him and it rhymed with his last name.

The eight GOP congressmen voted in a way that is perceived as opposite to what their own constituency and the party as a whole wanted. Therefore they betrayed those groups. Cap and Traitors is a clever rhyme that describes the situation fairly well.

It is inflammatory? Yeah.
Overly critical? Maybe.
Effective? Probably.

I think the term is fine. Hell, I am fed up with the left dictating what our language should or shouldn’t be. We have freedom of speech. If a journalist or politician or the man in the street wants to use the word “traitor” then it’s fine.

If they use the word for simply effect, or actually attach all that the word can conjure, then good, the court of public opinion will decide if the usage was clever or over the top.

The left has spent to much time proving what Orwell said over 50 years ago about controlling language and controlling media. The left has handed us all these pretty catch-phrases which are designed to minimize the effects of our vibrant language and to try to get us to lock-step speak as some sort of one-minded drone.

Nope, not for me, traitor is fine, it has more than one level of meaning, it gets the point across in one simple thought and if it rattle anyones cages, then it proof in the usage itself that it’s proper.

They were traitors to their party. Slam.