Battered Voter Syndrome

"Haw-Haw" Murtha on his western Pennsylvania constituents:

Ah, but not to worry; the Adscam crook and Butcher of Haditha subsequently apologized for calling the people who keep re-electing him irredeemable bigots - by in essence saying, "they can't help it, they're just a bunch of rednecks":

U.S. Representative John Murtha is calling many of the people who put him in office "rednecks."

The news comes one week after Murtha claimed the area is racist, then apologized for that comment.

In explaining his comments about racism, Murtha, D-Johnstown, told WTAE Channel 4 Action News on Monday it's difficult for many in the area to change. Murtha said that just five to ten years ago the entire area was "redneck."...

"What I mean is, there's still folks that have a problem voting for somebody 'cause they're black.  This whole area years ago was -- was really redneck, particularly older people.  They're hesitant, they want change but they don't want to see things go too far."

I guess it's all in who you insult.  "Rednecks" are fair game for a Democrat, but let a Republican like ex-Virginia Republican Senator George Allen have a "macaca" moment, and he's exiled to the foul nether regions, never to be seen or heard from again.

But Murtha's would seem to be a much worse faux pas.  It wasn't like Allen's electorate had an overabundance of minorities in it, and he didn't make a blanket declaration about any of them in any case.  Heck, even when Barack Hoover Obama made his derisive, contemptuous "bitter clinger" slur about the very same "redneck" demographic (that helped defeat him in last spring's Pennsylvania Primary), he did it at a private gathering in San Francisco.  Congressman Haw-Haw slandered his own constituents right out in public and to their very faces.

Think it'll cost him his congressional seat?  Bovine fecality, it will.  And behold my current Pennsylvania projection: Obama 53.9%, McCain 43.4%.  That's ten and a half points, gentles.  Philadelphia alone can't tip the Keystone State that much.  But if a Republican congressman had brought up, say, The Chosen One's Islamic background - oh, wait, that's right, one of them did last spring, and McCain immediately repudiated him.  Do you hear Barry O condemning and distancing himself from Murtha?

No you do not, because he doesn't have to.  The "redneck racists" that both have repeatedly slimed are going to dutifully vote for them anyway.  Because, you know, those "goddam macaca Republicans" are so much worse....