Please Don't Again With the Hittings Hurt

(It helps if you say the headline in a Jerry Lewis voice.)

After their amazing chutzpah in proposing a Minority Bill of Rights (you remember, the one Hastert completely ignored when Pelosi suggested it in 2004?), the Repubicans continue their "Please don't treat us as we treated you" wheedling.

GOP pollster Frank Luntz has been advising conservative Republicans for years on how to exploit language to smear Dems and win elections. It was Luntz, for example, who teamed up with Newt Gingrich to shape the Contract with America in 1994.

And now, Luntz has taken to the pages of the Huffington Post to offer the left some advice: don’t act like his Republican clients.

I am not in the habit of offering partisan linguistic advice to Democrats. But in the genuine spirit of bipartisanship - seriously - I thought this is the perfect time to convey a simple point to the still-euphoric faces of Democrat activists: Don’t twist the knife. […]

Democracy is at its best when its practioners use language to unite and explain rather than divide and attack…. We need an intelligent debate, not a sound-bite contest.

I hope the Democrats pants them, and drag their butts around the football field a few times.

Silly elephants.