If anyone with a brain took the time to learn about Richard Sherman, and then put him in the context of the rest of the National Football League, he'd be a pretty hard guy to bash.
But some of the party's activists and front-line politicians are, if anything, getting more zealous for small government after the profligate Bush years.In such a climate it would be hard for Republican politicians to bash bankers or support government intervention, even if they wanted to.
One figure who will be central to those discussions clearly has made up his mind, however, and only last year he reasserted his determination to shape the red-top's stances (by reportedly ordering Sun staff mid-election campaign to bash Labour harder and support the Tories more warmly).
In a midnight set at the Cake Shop, Joanna Gruesome had clearly studied the punk and post-punk parameters: a few chords, a hard-hitting drummer, a willingness to bash and scrabble and bawl around lyrics that transmuted frustration into mayhem.
Suddenly, the only way to right the myriad wrongs which have befallen you for being who you are is to bash back as hard and fast as you possibly can, wailing and gnashing your teeth as the blood splatters up into your face.
"People like to bash women who are strong," he said.
"Getting to bash Superman".
These days everyone likes to bash bankers.
'Tis the season to bash Pakistan.
