[Visiting Liberal]

Liberals DO America Bash.
Look at how they treat the flag, how they spew hatred at US soldiers, how they call our soldiers 'baby killers', how they scream and shout at people who proudly display the flag, how they constantly say stupid things along the lines of America deserving 9/11...

Painting me with the same blanket statements you would use to paint the most fringy of the fringe does both you and me a disservice. I have never acted like that, and most liberals don't. Similarly, most conservatives don't spew hatred like Fred Phelps or the like. But some do. Should I, then, accuse you of being a "jingoistic, ignorant, racist, redneck hick" because you're a conservative?

No. Absolutely not. I don't hate you. I disagree with you. There's a huge difference.

As an aside, I have a problem with the way most people in my city display the American flag. My problem? No, it's not the fact that they display it. It's the disrespect with which they display it. They leave it hanging out rain or shine, let it get ragged and moldy, they don't fly it at half-staff at the proper times, they let it get faded and discolored without properly retiring it and replacing it with a fresh one, and they think that a sun-bleached American flag magnet in their car window somehow makes them more patriotic than me.

It doesn't. It makes them more willing to buy crud made in China.

[Darksheare]

"Painting me with the same blanket statements you would use to paint the most fringy of the fringe does both you and me a disservice."

Sorry, it is the heart and core of Liberalism.
If you don't likei that it is pointed out, change it.
Any Dem senator or Representative that slams the U.S. and blames America for what happened on 9/11 should get teh boot, right?
If you don't like the so-called 'blanket statement', change the reason it is a true statement.

"I have a problem with the way most people in my city display the American flag."

So you don't like someone displaying the flag?
There are all weather flags, and if you have a light shining on it, it may be left up at night.

Next?

[Vermonter]

Painting me with the same blanket statements you would use to paint the most fringy of the fringe does both you and me a disservice. I have never acted like that, and most liberals don't. Similarly, most conservatives don't spew hatred like Fred Phelps or the like. But some do. Should I, then, accuse you of being a "jingoistic, ignorant, racist, redneck hick" because you're a conservative?

The difference is that when a 'conservative' takes an anti-semitic/racist/name your PC favorite stance he is called on it by fellow conservatives.

Liberals can say the most outrageous things in any category and no one on your side calls them on it. Take the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Ted Kennedy, Robert Byrd..... and on and on.... Where are those on your side to call your leaders on their hypocrisy?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Similarly, most conservatives don't spew hatred like Fred Phelps or the like.

Fred Phelps is a Al Gore supporter. Not a conservative dear.