So you excuse your own impoliteness and rudeness based on your imaginary perception that everyone else is?

Why not just admit, Jay, that leftists like you spew hatred and arrogance, instead of trying to rationalize it by blaming “righties”? Isn’t your behavior justified by itself — or do you need the “everyone else is doing it” excuse?

Yes, of course. Really big mistakes usually incur really big retaliations/reactions/responses.

Isn’t this incredibly elementary stuff? I mean, you may think the last 8 years went swimmingly, but most non-republicans pretty much feel like it was the worst presidential administration ever and that the country has slid right into the toilet on the GOP’s watch. People are angry. People are often not nice when they’re angry.

I might also point out that all this “gosh, liberals are so darn angry and uncivil” stuff is pretty hilariously rich coming from the party of Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, O’Reilly, et al.

Yes, it would be a waste of time attempting to refute facts and solid reasoning. I give you credit for acknowledging that.

Seems the very tone of your excuse, er, explanation, suggests you’re projecting something into the political sphere.

One point–true, the Bush admin’s economic policies haven’t been true to conservative principles, but they’ve certainly been true to republican principles. Or at least republican principles since, say, DD Eisenhower.

V the K–I started writing a well thought out response and then realized that it would be a monumental waste of time arguing with you, so I’ll go with my first instinct, which is el oh el.

And yet, Obama is not pulling out of Iraq immediately and will keep troops there for the three years the Iraqi Parliament has agreed to. (Also, we *won* that war, and liberals are bitter that we didn’t lose, which seems unpatriotic to me.)

Deficit spending? Let’s see, not only are the Democrats now saying “Deficits don’t matter” as they push through another stimulus package and propose massive corporate welfare (a.k.a. bailouts) for selected crony industries, but Obama in the campaign promised programs that would result in (minimum) $795 Billion in new federal spending while only proposing $270 Billion in new taxes to pay for it.

Katrina — the failure of a Democrat mayor and a Democrat governor. The Republican state of Mississippi was hit harder and recovered faster.

Gitmo — Last I heard, the New York Times was advising Obama to keep it open. (i.e. they admit Bush was right.)

The war on facts and science — This from the party that declares debate on ‘Global Warming’ to be over, and actively seeks to silence all dissent. This from the party that insists on using taxpayer dollars to support embryonic stem cell research for purely ideological (a.k.a pro-abortion) reasons. (Because adult stem cell research is much more promising and not morally ambiguous.) Obama even wanted to eliminate NASA to fund daycare.

Adam has just proven the old nostrum that when you point a finger at someone else, you point three fingers back at yourself.

Differing opinions is fine and all, but when one party has bankrupted your country–economically, militarily, and morally–it’s hard to keep being nice to those responsible. Bear in mind that you are not owed respect or civility by anyone. Frankly, imo, the GOP is owed a good measure of disrespect until they take responsibility for the colossal mess they’ve made.

[Um, Adam, the anger on the left goes back well into the early days of the Bush Administration, long beore the economy showed any signs of weakness. Not just that, we haven't had conservative economic policies these last eight years so, at best, you can blame them on elected conservatives for failing to push their party's agenda hard enough.

Well, at least you show us who some of you guys really are, that you don't want civility and refuse to respect your adversaries. So, basically each comment you make further confirms my point while fails to answer my query--why are you guys so angry? Why must you guys resort to personal insults? Guess for you the political really is personal. -Dan]

Okey-dokey.

Essentially adam is saying, “Democrats: proud to be the party of hate.”

Conservatives are like the dumb whimpering dog that’s just been spanked with a newspaper for befouling the carpet for the hundredth time and can’t figure out why its owner is being so mean.

Hardly, the post referenced was as incoherent as it was juvnile and mean-spirited. But, at least it put a smile on my face, knowing that I must be doing something right to get them to devote so much space to trying to take me down.

Still, curious why you guys need get so personal in your posts and can’t limit yourselves to addressing our ideas?

Au contraire, mon frere. We neither insult nor criticize. We mock. We mock because your arguments are easily mocked. You are a sham of a mockery of a travesty of a sham.

Good day, sir.

I said GOOD DAY!