Republicans are crude, insensitive, and intolerant? They're not the ones making fun of the handicapped for political gain.* Republicans are crude, insensitive, and intolerant? They're not the ones making fun of the handicapped for political gain. In Tennessee, a flier emerging from Democratic representative Craig Fitzhugh's campaign office mocks Bush supporters--and Special Olympians. It features a photograph of a boy finishing a track race; superimposed su·per·im·pose tr.v. su·per·im·posed, su·per·im·pos·ing, su·per·im·pos·es 1. To lay or place (something) on or over something else. 2. over the runner's face is President Bush's own visage; across the top stretches the teaser teaser an animal used to sexually tease but not to impregnate the members of the opposite sex. Usually males and they may be surgically prepared to ensure that they cannot mate or are not fertile. , "Voting for Bush is like running in the Special Olympics Special Olympics International sports program for people with intellectual disability. It provides year-round training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type summer and winter sports for participants. ," with the punch line punch line n. The climactic phrase or statement of a joke, producing a sudden humorous effect. punch line Noun the last line of a joke or funny story that gives it its point Noun 1. at the bottom: "Even if you win, you're still retarded." The nastiness of such material needs no explanation; that using it in a campaign is politically suicidal should be similarly self-evident. Or should it? The flier has garnered scarcely a nod from big media, and Democrats seem to be enjoying some success in claiming that this is all a Republican dirty trick. The story falls into the bulging category of, Can you imagine if we did this? |
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