Tim Kaine's GOP cannibal quip: Unfair to the Donners
By Dana Milbank
WashPost
Sunday, September 26, 2010
It was a biting remark by the Democratic National Committee chairman.
"You know, the Republicans, I think, merged with the Tea Party, and in many instances they're finding out it's the Donner Party," Tim Kaine told CNN's Candy Crowley last Sunday, "because it's knocking off Republicans left and right."
The chairman may have thought it was a harmless people-eating joke, one that he had already served up to the New York Times and to reporters on a teleconference. But it set my teeth on edge. Comparing Republicans to cannibals is deeply offensive -- to the cannibals.
I claim some standing on the matter, because I'm a Donner. According to family lore, we're related to the Donners who, stranded by snow in the Sierra Nevadas a century and a half ago, resorted to eating their dead.
(More here.)
WashPost
Sunday, September 26, 2010
It was a biting remark by the Democratic National Committee chairman.
"You know, the Republicans, I think, merged with the Tea Party, and in many instances they're finding out it's the Donner Party," Tim Kaine told CNN's Candy Crowley last Sunday, "because it's knocking off Republicans left and right."
The chairman may have thought it was a harmless people-eating joke, one that he had already served up to the New York Times and to reporters on a teleconference. But it set my teeth on edge. Comparing Republicans to cannibals is deeply offensive -- to the cannibals.
I claim some standing on the matter, because I'm a Donner. According to family lore, we're related to the Donners who, stranded by snow in the Sierra Nevadas a century and a half ago, resorted to eating their dead.
(More here.)
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