Pine Bluffs Post - Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908

You’re a bigot! You’re racist! Homophobe! Xenophobe! You just want to throw Grandma over a cliff! Sound familiar? Those are only a small sample of terms Democrats, Socialists, throw around to make Conservatives back down from the battle. Unfortunately it works. Remember the old saying we used as kids, “Sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never hurt me”? I think we all said it at one time or another but it isn’t true. Words do hurt.

Nobody enjoys being called names. Words hurt. I’m sure we can all come up with an example of a time when words hurt us. Democrats kno...