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Merry Kristof
Posted by James Wolcott

That great humanitarian Nicholas Kristof, speaking from the pulpit of the op-ed page of the NY Times, argues that to become the majority party again Democrats need to get over their sissy hangups about what's right and wrong, and show that they're strong enough to take on the weak.

". . . Bill Clinton won his credibility in the heartland partly by going home to Little Rock during the 1992 campaign to preside over the execution of a mentally disabled convict named Ricky Ray Rector.

"There was a moral ambiguity about Mr. Clinton's clambering to power over Mr. Rector's corpse. but unless Democrats compromise, they'll be proud and true and losers."

Now the Old Me would have found the phrase "moral ambiguity" a peculiar way to describe using a black corpse as a footstool to power (it's difficult to imagine anything less ambiguous), but the New Me recognizes that the Democrats need to lay waste to traditional constituencies if they are ever to appeal to heartland America again and slake Nick Kristof's dainty bloodlust.

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No, something ballsier is needed for a turnaround in perception. A taboo or two needs to be smashed.

Therefore I am proposing that the official Democratic slogan for 2008 be "Shoot a Fag for Jesus."

Walcott's blog is a terrific flashback to the glory days of Spy Magazine. Check it out.