I don't know what it is that makes those Social Democrats so absolutely disgusting. It's not just that they're leftists. Other leftists from the Green Party or the various communist parties are equally or even more insane, but for some reason many of them are not as awful and repulsive as the Social Democrats. So smug; so arrogant; so uneducated; so phony; so vulgar; so distasteful; so ignorant; so stupid; so plump; so greasy; so fat; so...uncouth! And that's just the women! It wasn't always this way, either. Willy Brandt and, of course, Helmut Schmidt were likeable guys. But today's generation of Sozis? *shudder*
There a quite a few respectable Social Dems, I figured out since we´re in one government. Finance Minister Steinbrück revealed he´d never thought of Christian Democrats singing "for he´s a jolly good fellow" on his birthday - but it happened. Or Minister Müntefering - I had the lowest opinion of him before the election, but afterwards he turned out to deal pretty good with reality. Also Foreign Minister Steinmeier is a respectable person... at least for now. I think he still has some "corpses in the basement" from his days in the Chancellery, though.
I am glad you made these exceptions - but I would not talk about all the rest as if they where Claudia Roth. Remember - it could be worse :) (Oh yes it could)