This is care of Atrios, but I got the direct link to the Mother Jones site. Hacket really displayed the difference between acting tough and being
tough.
Correction: Okay this old news to some of you, didn't hear about it till today. Revisions made.
"That's low politics, punk!" a heavy-set man sneers as he marches toward the poll.
Hackett wheels around. "Pardon me?"
"You know, that radio ad that says, `You don't know Schmidt.'" He's talking about one of Hackett's attack ads against Republican Jean Schmidt. The man spews a stream of epithets, and Hackett lets out a crybaby whimper: "Waaaaaaa!"
"What's that, punk?" the big man growls.
A TV crew is setting up nearby, but Hackett doesn't seem to care. "What's your fuckin' problem?" the candidate snaps. "You got something to say to me? Bring it on!" Hackett, all 6 feet 2 inches of him, is nose to nose with the heckler. "Problem?" he taunts. The man turns around and storms away.
"These guys in the Republican Party adopted this tough-guy language," Hackett tells me, still steamed, an hour later. "They're bullies. They're offended when somebody takes a swing back at them."
Nuff said.