This story from the New York Sun has us scratching our head

Democrats are calling on Wal-Mart to repudiate
a statement by a talk show host and Wal-Mart
proponent likening the party's leading lawmakers
to members of a terrorist group, Hezbollah.

In a column published Tuesday, the commentator,
Herman Cain, repeatedly used the term "Hezbocrats."
Mr. Cain defined them as "a roaming band of
militant guerrillas seeking their party's 2008
nomination for president" and said they were
lobbing "rhetorical bombs at Wal-Mart."

Senator Kerry of Massachusetts denounced Mr. Cain,
who serves on the Georgia steering committee of a
Wal-Mart-funded advocacy group, Working Families
for Wal-Mart.

"I won't stand for the 'Swiftboating' of working
people and Democrats who ask tough questions of
big corporations," Mr. Kerry said.

UrbanDictionary.com defines swiftboating as "the process of smearing a
military veteran's service record for political purposes." So it would
have been "swiftboating" if Cain had said of the Wal-Mart detractors,
say, that "they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped
wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power,
cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed
villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for
fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the country side of
South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and
very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of
this country."

But he said nothing of the sort. Indeed, he didn't say a word about their
military records. So what in the world is Kerry talking about?

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"The Democrats [...] look like they're turning into a domestic version of
the Palestinians--a group so enraged at their perceived oppressors, and
so caught up in their own victimization, that they behave in ways that
are patently not in their self-interest, and that are almost guaranteed
to perpetuate their suffering," David Brooks, "Weekly Standard"