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Bush planned to “eke out majorities by wooing conservative Democrats to his side, even if that might alienate some moderate Republicans.” 47 When a “moderate Republican” is so liberal that he is less likely to support a Republican president than some Democrats, doesn’t that finally make him a “liberal”? “Moderate Republican” is simply how the blabocracy flatters Republicans who vote with the Democrats. If it weren’t so conspicuous, the New York Times would start referring to “nice Republicans” and “mean Republicans.”
    The Washington Post describes Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts and Senator Chuck Robb of Virginia as “centrists.” 48 On the basis of interest group ratings in 1999, Kerry and Robb’s counterparts on the right are Trent Lott (R-Miss.), Bob Smith (R-N.H.), Connie Mack (R-Fla.), and Don Nickles (R-Okla.) 49 I can assure you, the word “centrist” will never be found near any of their names.
    Liberals claim conservatives use “code words” and as proof they babble about vague ephemeral concepts—a “metaphor,” “proxies,” a “three-step process,” indistinct feelings “in the air.” Meanwhile, conservatives can produce a chart of word-to-word translations from liberal code: Moderate = liberal; far right wing = conservative; centrist = 95 ADA rating; choice = abortion; affirmative action = race discrimination. Even the phrase “code word” is a code word for liberals lying about Republicans. Liberals can’t just come out and say that they want to take more of our money, kill babies, and discriminate on the basis of race. So instead they compare Republicans to George Wallace—a Democrat.
    Had enough of the love? We’re still not done because ... Republicans are also dumb and ugly. If Republicans are so stupid (and poorly dressed!), it’s hard to understand why Democrats haven’t been able to get as much as 50 percent of the country to vote for them in any national election for the last twenty-five years.
    On CNN’s Capital Gang on July 24,1999, Margaret Carlson analyzed a Republican’s bill to cut taxes, saying: “I mean, the only thing that could explain this love of tax cuts is a lowered IQ.” 50 Writing in the Washington Post, columnist Richard Cohen made one of his typically incisive points, explaining that the Republican Party is “dumb as a post.” In case the nuance of Cohen’s logic was lost, he continued, saying the Republican Party “is defined by a hostility toward minorities—all sorts of minorities—and by a craven cowardice on the part of its more moderate members. The truth of the matter is that the party is having a crackup. If it were a person, it would be medicated.” 51
    Howell Raines, former editorial page editor of the New York Times, who covered the Reagan White House with the Times’s trademark objectivity, asserted that “Reagan couldn’t tie his shoes if his life depended on it.” 52 And still, somehow, he won the Cold War. Al Gore told Virginia voters at a campaign rally that they should re-elect Virginia Senator Chuck Robb because his opponent, Oliver North, was supported by “the extreme right wing—the extra-chromosome right wing.” 53 (The presence of an “extra chromosome” is the birth defect that creates Down’s syndrome.) The Washington Post famously reported as hard fact that the followers of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson “are largely poor, uneducated and easy to command.” 54 Paula Jones was attacked by News-week’s Evan Thomas as “some sleazy woman with big hair coming out of the trailer parks.” Aren’t these the same people constantly demanding campus speech codes, an end to “intolerance,” and “hate speech” laws—so that no one’s feelings get hurt?
    More than any of their other hate speech, the left’s attacks on women for being ugly tell you everything. There is nothing so irredeemably cruel as an attack on a woman for her looks. Attacking a female for being ugly is a