Winning with hatred: The Republican agenda (Barf Alert!)

The Raw Story ^ | November 2004 | Dara Purvis

[The Loan Arranger]

Tuesday night, I went down to the graduate student lounge in my college for an election night “party;” mostly just people camped out in front of the television with snacks and drinks. My idea for this column was to take along my laptop, which I did, and chronicle what an expat election party was like. Advertisement

I figured my fellow Trinity Hall students were good for some amusing and interesting quotes, which they were, and that any British students in attendance might provide a different perspective, which they did, and that even if the night didn’t go my way I could at least make lots of jokes about alcohol consumption.

But somehow I’m not up to editing through that night. I finally left at 6:00 in the morning, and laid awake in bed for half an hour unable to relax. When I finally went to sleep, I dreamed of the Electoral College. Now that, as I write this, I’ve gotten back up after a few hours and taken a painful glance at some news sites, it’s not any better.

What happened?

To tell the truth, I wasn’t expecting Kerry to win. But I wasn’t expecting this either. A score of homophobic bans on gay marriage passed. An attempt to reform the Three Strikes law in California to a more humane standard (and one that most people thought they were voting for when the original proposition passed) failed. The Senate Minority leader ousted for the first time in 52 years. The popular vote not only in Bush’s favor, but a few million people in his favor. The first actual majority vote for a President since his father in 1988.

[The Loan Arranger]

No one has yet left Dara any comments. I feel almost certain that's about to change.

[Publius6961]

Dara can put some ice on it.

If he/she/it needs to call pro-marriage initiatives "homophobic", we got no common language to discuss anything with.

[colorado tanker]

Why can't these people understand that a majority just disagree with them and think they're wrong?

Yet anybody who disagrees with them is immediately attacked as a hater, or a bigot, or ignorant, or you name it. What ugly, petulant, immature people.

[506trooper]

Another pathetic loser without a clue....not worth the read.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

How does a progressive keep going after this?

They don't. Razors and pills in the bathroom medicine cabinet. C-YA!

[Edgerunner]

Oh WAAAAH!

[HMFIC]

"All your thoughts are OURS!"

Oh, and Dara, our rubitronic, cerebral, cortex analyzer, now at the RNC, is able to penetrate your tinfoil hats!

[Chad Fairbanks]

He should have called this "Losing With Hatred"

[Moral Hazard]

Dara, strike me down with all of your hatred, and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!

[William of Orange]

winning with hatred? and I thought John Kerry lost (both John Kerry's, John F. Kerry with 220 electoral votes, John L. Kerry with 31 electoral votes).

[Darkwolf377]

So Dara, I guess if those who vote for the protection of marriage are homophobic, those who vote for gay marriage are heterophobic, by your bizarre logic.

[BenLurkin]

You want to see hate? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1305877/posts

Now that shows some genuine hatred by the leftists to their fellow (Red State) Americans.

[papadoc1945]

If you click the 'no comments' button on the article it turns out there are lots of comments. Most are extremely intolerant while decrying REPUBLICAN intolerance. The word I did not see, and do not xpect to hear from liberals is: RESPONSIBILITY. They want to care for the downtrodden, the sick, the weak, the poor, the dispossessed. Well, there are better ways than catching fish for all those folks. If only the libs had a clue. Bush is clever and stupid; the antiChrist and religious fanatic. I don't think they ever listen to anyone but themselves. Must be great to have all the answers..if only they could get us to listen.

[weegee]

And I don’t know what to say. I can’t even muster up the righteous anger that several of my friends and family expressed. How does a progressive keep going after this?

Let's see. We smacked down your agenda yet you continue to cram it down our throats. "We" must change to suit the losing side's whims. "They" know what's best for us all.

I hope that they use Jim Jones' (D) recipe for the kool aid.

[Danae]

Neener neener neener.....

These fools have yet to get one simple thing we red state stupids see CLEARLY.

They have been shoving a racist, bigoted, sexist, and immoral agenda down our throats, all the while spouting from the roof tops that it is the Conservatives, the Republicans, that are the racists, bigots, the sexists, and the immoral. A vain attempt to cover what they have been doing for decades.

I enjoy pointing out the fact that we see through their smoke screen. The mirrors are broken, and the game is up. We got ya now you blue state liars, now you are going to get the dose of righteousness you have been begging for. Get ready for ten years or so of Minority status, it is gonna take at least that long to fix all the crap that you have messed up over the last 30. Buck up little campers, it's gonna be a long decade. Personally, I rejoice!

[weegee]

Along with the anger, I’ve also heard a lot of disgust. Several people have said they feel ashamed to be an American, and I’ve heard “they deserve him” a couple of times. And true, that would be one way to react—the quasi-Leninist strain of showing the populace what the alternative is, so that eventually they will break and revolt.

But I don’t think that will ever happen.

Ah yes, the commie dream of overthrowing our democracy and having a full scale revolution.

F. Democrats. What they espouse these days is positively unAmerican.

[hosepipe]

[ An attempt to reform the Three Strikes law in California to a more humane standard (and one that most people thought they were voting for when the original proposition passed) failed. ]

Most serious crime is perpetrated by repeat offenders.. Does she mean humane for the victims or humane for the inhumane.?. An obviously rhetorical question.. the answer is obvious..

[ladtx]

Tuesday night, I went down to the graduate student lounge in my college....

Dara, I found your problem.