The 'cry baby' label seemed to emerge from jublilant conservatives in response to the Democratic outrage over the corrupt Florida presidential elections of 2000.

What I heard was a cry for justice that went unheeded by the Supreme Court.

I usually think of the person who uses the term cry baby as someone who is gloating over a success by demeaning the unsuccesful.

Dismiss it as psycho babble but in a literal sense, when a baby cries it usually means it needs something. However, in a strictly rhetorical way, using the term cry baby in a derisive manner is a perpetuation of a culture of child abuse and neglect.

Even Rush Limbaugh is now calling a victim of Parkinsons disease a cry baby and faking it for the cameras. Rush even went further by mimicing the spasams of Micheal Fox.

So go ahead Old Guy, invoke the words cry baby. Whether one is calling Cindy Shehan a cry baby, or innocent people who were disenfranchised by criminals, the recipient of the name calling "Cry Baby" will always have a visceral, almost primal reaction that motivates more than it hurts. A Jungarian would understand the response to "cry baby" is akin to 'kill the bully'.
The bully is an archtype we all unite against with a vengence and perseverence that clogs every leading news story around the world.
And when it leads, it bleeds.

Psycho neuro linguistics aside, I'm sure Old Guy's mother used to say "son, you will catch more flies with honey than vinegar".
Or maybe she called him a cry baby ;)