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2006-03-21 Home Front: Culture Wars
Bush is a victim of America’s political civil war
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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-03-21 05:10|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 "The right thinks the left is stupid; the left thinks the right is evil."

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2006-03-21 08:06|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-03-21 08:06|| Front Page Top

#2 This has been true since the days of Hamilton and Jefferson. It will always be true. The problem right now is we're too evenly split.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-03-21 08:09||   2006-03-21 08:09|| Front Page Top

#3 On one side of the political gulf there are the fanatical win-at-all-costs Democrats whose vital ideological core does not believe in the legitimacy of the Republican Party just as abolitionists didn’t believe in the legitimacy of slavery and the Southern Democrats in the legitimacy of Lincoln’s presidency.

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...Democrats whose vital ideological core does not believe in the legitimacy of the Republican Party just as Marxist didn’t believe in the legitimacy of multi-party democracy.
Posted by Javirt Whaiter9406 2006-03-21 08:13||   2006-03-21 08:13|| Front Page Top

#4 "The right thinks the left is stupid; the left thinks the right is evil."

That's why the Republican presidents have, without fail, been portrayed as dumb. More like the left is naive and self destructive.
Posted by ed 2006-03-21 09:16||   2006-03-21 09:16|| Front Page Top

#5 I read somewhere that Republicans are either portrayed as dumb, or as cold hearted bastards.

Nixon was a cold hearted bastard.

Reagan was both. First term he was portrayed as dumb, then as a cold hearted bastard when it was realized the dumb thing didn't resonate.

Bush senior, when they even noticed him, was a cold hearted bastard out of touch with the people and uncaring.

Bush Jr is doing the Reagan. First he was dumb and Cheney was running the show behind the scenes, then he became Hitler. I read that going into the 2000 election Bush knew the two general media positions and positioned himself as dumb feeling that it was a better way to go with America.
Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz  2006-03-21 09:52||   2006-03-21 09:52|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm getting to the point that I think the left is evil.
Posted by anonymous2u 2006-03-21 13:23||   2006-03-21 13:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Funny, I think that the Left is both evil and stupid.
Posted by Secret Master 2006-03-21 15:05||   2006-03-21 15:05|| Front Page Top

#8 The problem is not liberals. The problem is leftists who have convinced enough sheeple that they, too, are liberals, rather than American hating scum who use the blessings of liberty to destroy the USA from within.

Pathetically and shortsightedly, liberals are blind to the fact that even if they realize their fantasy of defeating the evil conservatives by swallowing hard and aligning themselves with leftists, they will then be the authority de jure in leftsist's crosshairs.
Posted by Hyper">Hyper  2006-03-21 15:10||   2006-03-21 15:10|| Front Page Top

#9 good article
Posted by 2b 2006-03-21 16:16||   2006-03-21 16:16|| Front Page Top

#10 I still think bi-partisanship will congeal on the Iran issue. Jihad life is cheap.
Posted by Listen to Dogs 2006-03-21 16:26||   2006-03-21 16:26|| Front Page Top

#11 OT : Listen To dogs, did you see my french websites list here (see comment)?
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-03-21 16:28||   2006-03-21 16:28|| Front Page Top

#12 it will take a couple catastrophic poll losses but teh Dems will eventually split into two parties, or start putting reasonable candidates (other than poseurs for mil support) who actually want to protect our nation as no. 1 priority. I'm only 46, so maybe not in my lifetime...
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-03-21 18:20||   2006-03-21 18:20|| Front Page Top

#13 The problem began with VietNam and the draft. Most of the Dems went to college to take the 2S deferment and avoid the draft. To keep from dealing with the fact that while they were hiding, safe in college taking political science courses, those who couldn't afford to go to college were drafted and had to go to war in their place, these worms demonized the war and those who fought it. They were cowardly, intolerant slime then and they have not aged well.
Posted by RWV 2006-03-21 22:27||   2006-03-21 22:27|| Front Page Top

#14 "The right thinks the left is stupid; the left thinks the right is evil."

Thanks, RC. You took the words right out of my mouth.

I've been saying the same exact thing for awhile now, in particular to my associates on the left. I think it acurately captures the fanatcism of the left, which is the main point I try to make when arguing against it.
Posted by eltoroverde 2006-03-21 23:18||   2006-03-21 23:18|| Front Page Top

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