Under False Prentice

By Kleinheider Posted on February 5, 2009 at 2:37 pm

The Tennessee Guerilla Women don’t understand why Nashville’s congressman is so conservative:

Jim Cooper (D-TN) still hasn’t answered my letter asking him why I should vote for him when he votes with Republicans. Cooper is my allegedly Democratic Rep.

Nashville is one of the state’s most liberal centers, and we have to get stuck with the likes of Jim Cooper? The best thing I can say about Jim Cooper is that he is not Bill Frist.

I’m gonna be honest. The Guerilla Women let me down with this post. The Guerilla Women are known for their bombastic rhetoric. They are known for their no-holds-barred attitude. When they go after folks, they go after them. Caution is thrown to the wind and, often, so is politeness.

So in this case, why no mention of Prentice Cooper?

Now, of course, throwing the Congressman’s segregationist father in his face for no apparent reason would be unfair and untoward. I’m not suggesting it should be done.

Clearly, the man was a product of his time and, being that the congressman was all of fifteen when Prentice died, the elder Cooper obviously had a limited amount of direct political influence on his son.

And the young Cooper, after all, supported (early) Barack Obama for President. Jim Cooper is impervious to this kind of attack. It wouldn’t work and would likely provoke backlash. I’m just curious why you never see it.

Haters and critics throw all sorts of bile at people whom they have disagreements with. They throw things that make no sense and have no bearing on the issue or conversation. But no one ever throws this.

Why not? Do they not know? Or do I need to have more confidence in the civility of our civil discourse?

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