Dems want to ship ashes to GOP lawmakers

Liberal groups have sunk to a new low with their plan to orchestrate over-the-top theatrics directed at Republican members.

Via Politico:

One newly formed progressive super PAC is planning to cart caskets to Republican lawmakers’ districts and hold mock funerals for their constituents. Another activist is encouraging protesters to ship their own ashes — should they die without health care —to GOP lawmakers. And other progressive groups are planning graphic “die-in” protests as they work to derail GOP plans to repeal Obamacare.

Democrats even acknowledge that moves like these repel independent-minded voters.

But the party is divided over the tactics its allies are using. Veteran operatives say the over-the-top theater could backfire just as political momentum on health care has shifted toward Democrats.

“Staging a funeral has a lot of shock value, but runs the risk of overplaying the hand and turning off swing, moderate or independent voters who would otherwise agree with us on this issue,” said Caitlin Legacki, a Democratic strategist who worked on the 2012 campaign of Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.).

T.J. Rooney, former chair of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, said mock funerals will have the same impact on the right as “the ghouls who carry pictures of aborted fetuses” have on the left. “To those affected and their loved ones, they live the uncertainty every day and the hyperbole is offensive,” he said.

Attempts to use hyperbolic actions to distract from Obamacare’s continued unraveling will surely be common practice for liberals in 2018.