My bet is she was talking about the Dems failed attempt to extend SCHIP under Bush, but I can't read the womans mind. MY point was that the charge is made precisely because it IS applicable to various GOP policies going back at least thirty years. Hell, these are the people that think you get unemployed starving people off the street with a cash drop at the nearest mansion.

So, yes, I conceded YOUR point; yes, I understand the charge is offensive whether it's true or not, but whether it's true or not has a whole LOT to do with who's at fault there. I'm not making an apples to apples comparison, let me be clear, but most murderers object to being characterized as such in front of the jury; how much sympathy do you think their anger at an accurate charge earns them? Once again we're back to the Stevenson line. Blaming the prosecution for making ones crimes public is a poor defense. The anger is as understandable as it is unjustified. It reminds me of when Ws people accused Gore of trying to scare seniors with claims Bush would try to privatize Social Security (precisely what he DID try his first year in office, campaign denials aside): Dems don't have to scare seniors; the GOP platform does the job just fine unassisted. Then they promise seniors to cut all entitlements (nothing but waste, y'know) in one breath while in the next promising not to let the evil Dems touch their Medicare (God bless the GOP for giving us Medicare, eh?)