Civility 101

Civility 101

by digby




You've heard all the right wing caterwauling about that awful Eric Holder declaring "instead of when they go low we go high, I say when they go low, we kick them" and Hillary Clinton saying you can't be civil with a party like the Republicans and I'm sure you are properly chagrined. We simply must not succumb to such a mob mentality

Get a load of this from the GOP candidate for Pennsylvania Governor:

Well, Gov. Wolf, let me tell you what, between now and Nov. 6, you better put a catcher’s mask on your face, because I’m going to stomp all over your face with golf spikes,” Wagner said. “Because I’m going to win this for the state of Pennsylvania. And we’re throwing you out of office. Because I’m sick and tired of your negative ads. Gov. Wolf, I am bound and determined, I am going to vote you out of office.”

A violent threat against a specific person is certainly not nearly as bad as a black man and a woman suggesting that Democrats need to fight the GOP. That is going too far, for sure. And anyway he didn't mean it literally the way Holder and Clinton do:

Andrew Romeo, Wagner’s communications director, told Penn Live that the comments were not to be “taken literally.”

“He wanted them to be a metaphor for how he will approach the final stretch of the campaign,” Romeo said. “Tom Wolf has spent the entire race hiding behind false and negative attack ads like a coward instead of debating in front of the people of Pennsylvania and Scott will spend the last month of the race making it clear to voters why they should not give him a second term.”

Only the liberals are violent psychos who mean to literally kick Republicans --- when they go low which presumably means when they bend over to pick up a napkin off the floor. They are very, very uncivil.

Here's Tucker Carlson modeling appropriate behavior:

.@TuckerCarlson on Dems: "They are loyal little robots, they are lemmings. It's a mindless hoard of sad insecure dumb people hoping to become powerful by glomming on to a bigger structure." pic.twitter.com/ILL3sZ4ONF

— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 12, 2018