Temperament Wars (Dems are nice, GOP is mean)

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

[squidly]

We are virtuous and pure, they are devious and corrupt. Seems like the writer could have just summed it up with that sentence and spared the reader the torture of reading all that.

[Ronin]

For all the talk about the tainted legitimacy of Bush's Supreme Court-inflected victory in the 2000 election, the Democrats have never sought to discredit Bush's presidency...

What universe is this guy living in?

[martin_fierro]

Oh, right. Dems are regular sweethearts.

[alwaysconservative]

And while George Bush may well be the most conservative president in American history, he is more popular than, say, his conciliatory father was for most of his presidency. Maybe voters like politicians who know what they stand for even if they don't agree with what they stand for. (Or maybe they just like George Bush.)

I love it when they scratch their heads and can't come up with the real reasons they are losing! What? They can't call us Nazis and have anybody believe them anymore? They can't stifle free speech and delude themselves that they stand for the will of the people? They can't lie and get away with it anymore because of the internet? Awwww, shucks anyway!

[marajade]

When, at any time, was Bush losing in the vote count in Florida?

[hemogoblin]

Time for one of these, I think

[RichInOC]

How'd you forget Paulie's old podna, the Snake?

[MHGinTN]

Thank you for not posting a pic of the carvile snake ... Democrats are the party of abortion slaughter. It's their ritual of choice, don'tcha know.

[Cicero]

Only the New York Times could imagine that the party that supports abortion and sexual perversion as the two most important and nonnegotiable planks in its political agenda is as nice as motherhood and as sweet as apple pie.

"Hi, mom! I just voted for partial birth abortion!"

[winner3000]

(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?)

They also forgot the Florida supreme court's attempt at running roughshod over Florida's election laws during the recount, New Jersey's Supreme court running roughshod over that state's election laws (to replace the Torch on the ballot way after it was legal to do so), Not allowing Bush's judges to come out of committee when they were in power and essentially changing the required vote on judges from 50% to 60% (by flibustering), etc. How can we also forget the predictable refrain come election time that Republicans want to starve children and the homeless, reinstate slavery, and throw grandma down the stairs. Democrats are sooooo nice and only play by the rules!

[goldstategop]

LMAO! Most liberals are full of seething rage, unrelenting hatred, and deep to the soul contempt for President Bush. They're unhinged by two election losses in a road and they've veered Left. About the temperament wars, the truth is exactly the reverse of the headline. But who care these days about the truth? All we know is Republicans are heartless, right-wing, son of a bitch terminators bent on wiping out the human race.

[tet68]

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?

Lala land, I read no further.

[muawiyah]

Because of the Dem's adherence to the doctrine of slaughtering the unborn, they are due no respect whatsoever, neither in politics, nor in business, nor in social encounters.

Glad to see that attitude is moving into Congress otherwise some of those wishy-washy guys in the Rep leadership would be giving away the show to "my good colleague" as Trent Lott used to call them.

Never give a Dem a break.

[sweetliberty]

Are these the faces of "nice" people?

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[ImphClinton]

They are also ignorant people.

They all believe in in communism yet they are too stupid to realize that. Look at their friends all communist/socialist/ditcatorship countries.
They never met one they didn't like.

[Tall_Texan]

They can't be any more delusional. Let's get a few things straight:

The reason Ted Kennedy is willing to stand with the president on things like the education bill and prescription drugs for medicare is because they are LIBERAL BIG GOVERNMENT bills.

If you were to compare Democrats *handing* a win like this to Bush, you'd have to compare it to Republicans *handing* Clinton a win on welfare reform, a bill that the left felt horribly about.

As for Democrats being nice guys and allowing the military vote to count in Florida in 2004, well, gee, I guess the military *ought* to have their votes count shouldn't they? After all, when Democrats bleat that convicts and illegals and nameless dimpled chads should have the right to vote, you'd think our men and women overseas could possibly be afforded the same right. And they think this should count in the Democrats' favor?

Then, as to obstructing judges, the difference here is that the Republican *have* a majority of the Senate with which to get these nominees passed. That's not the same thing as when Republicans were the majority party and blocked Clinton nominees. The Democrats are trying to exercise the rights of the majority, while not holding a majority. Therein lies the difference.

I truly wish the Republicans were as mean, nasty and devious as the moral midgets at the New York Times would have you believe. If they did, maybe we could have some conservative measures accomplished rather than liberal measures. It's beyond time they stood up and bared their teeth instead of being the Rodney King battered spouses they act like most of the time.

[ozzymandus]

New York Times magazine?? What's that? Wasn't there a newspaper with that name that went bust after repeatedly being caught lying?