Temperament Wars (Dems are nice, GOP is mean)

The New York Times Magazine ^ | 07/06/03 | JAMES TRAUB

[Morgan's Raider]

And they've produced a really cute child!

Rermember, Damien was a cute little critter, too.

[MHGinTN]

Now I'M going to have nightmares!

[ladyinred]

ROTFLMAO! That is the funniest picture I have ever seen in my life! And that is saying something on FR!

[ladyinred]

(Why are the Democrats so much more willing than the Republicans to make political sacrifices in the name of procedural fairness or of good government?)

WHAT the ----? Is this for real?

[Fawnn]

This piece is another example of the liberal agenda of repeating a lie enough times so it begins to sound like and become accepted as the truth. ("It's all about sex." "We want every vote to count." Etc.) Thank goodness -- and all that is nice about Republicans, most people are wising up and not swallowing this BS anymore!

[sauropod]

"The Democrats have, in effect, agreed to hand to Bush precisely the kind of politically precious legislative victory on health care that the Republicans went to any lengths to deny to Clinton back in 1994."

Constitution? What Constitution?

[sauropod]

"It is just a fact that the Republicans are now the party of passionate convictions, while the Democrats are the party of grave reservations."

Uh-huh.

[sauropod]

"All we know is Republicans are heartless, right-wing, son of a bitch terminators..."

I've been called worse ;-).

[No Dems 2004]

A weird article. I wouldn't have put it this way, though I guess he does have a couple points.

[SkyPilot]

and the Democrats are the ones you want to bring home to mother........

.....So they can ravage her, bite her lip, slash her tires, kill her cat, threaten the other children, use th IRS to audit her, call her a homophobe, have your trial lawyer friends tell her she "really asked for it", lie to her, and tax her for it.

[Eva]

I didn't finish the article because the first premise that the Democrats never sought to discredit the Bush presidency is a bald faced lie. They have been saying that Bush was an illegitimate president since the election. The fact that the Democrats would stand behind a disgusting, womanizing, perjurous president to retain power is the telling act, though. The liberals can never defend themselves on issues, they can only attack nebulous personal attacks on Republicans because their true agenda would never get the public support.

[Republican Wildcat]

the Democrats have never sought to discredit Bush's presidency.

You have got to be kidding.

[LisaFab]

Could it be that the Democrats are constitutionally incapable of acting as single-mindedly -- as ruthlessly, as unfairly -- as the Republicans?

Folks this has to go down as the laugh of the year! Note, the lower case 'c' in constitutionally.

[I still care]

"Now the Republicans are the hellions, and the Democrats are the ones you want to bring home to mother."


If I brought a Democrat home to MY mother, she would have cried.