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|Used against [[Rick Santorum]] leading up to his defeat for reelection in 2006
|Assumes the posture of "[[civil rights]]" advocacy.
|African-Americans oppose the promotion of homosexual "rights" in greater numbers than the general population of the United States as a whole<ref>httphttps://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2008/10/30/proposition_8</ref>
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|Intolerant card
|Kennedy card
|Used to support socialized medicine
|Cite Ted Kennedy’s Kennedy's "dream", the "the cause of my life", "Senator Kennedy eloquently captured how our long-term care system is failing the American people when he said, too often, they have to give up the American Dream" <ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2011/10/26/dems-invoke-the-kennedy-card-to-defend-obamacare-in-wake-of-failing-class-act/ Dems invoke the ‘Kennedy Card’ to defend Obamacare in wake of failing CLASS Act, Daily Caller, October 26, 2011]</ref>
|Emotional appeal for passing legislation
|Only 26% of the population can relate to liberalism, the Kennedy card has zero effect on legislation
|Obama said his [[American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009|stimulus]] would hold unemployment below 8%; instead it rose to over 10% and straddled the U.S. with the [[debt ceiling]] crisis<ref>[http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2011/07/20/opinion/only-hope-is-undoing-obamas-mess.html Only Hope Is Undoing Obama’s Mess], Kenneth Brown And Micha Gisser, ''Albuquerque Journal'', July 20, 2011.</ref>
|The quick fix
|[[Incrementalism ]] leads to compromise
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|Denying [[Biblical scientific foreknowledge]] card
|Working families card
|Class warfare
|See Democratic Talking Points, [[2008 Democratic National Convention#Democratic National Convention|2008 Presidential Nominating Convention]], from the ''[[New York Times]]'' [httphttps://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/democrats-talking-points-on-the-convention/]
|Postures [[Democrat]]s as advocates for people who hold jobs and have children
|Politicians who employ such rhetoric invariably work to pass legislation that destroys jobs and undermines families
|Insensitive card
|Failure to behave in a [[politically correct]] manner.
|A former Miss California was stripped of her crown for correctly stating that marriage is between a man and a woman<ref>httphttps://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2009/04/20/carrie-prejean-says-answer-gay-marriage-question-cost-miss-usa-crown/</ref>
|Ostracizing others among the unenlightened masses leads to feelings of superiority
|Not everyone keeps up to date on the latest liberal [[tripe]]
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