[Red Badger]

If no “partisanship” is the objective, then why the hell have parties in the first place?..............

[weegee]

The only way Obama and his supporters will achieve the “unity” they claim they want to bring is by locking half of the nation up in gulags for political re-education.

[Jeff Head]

2008 MCCAIN-OBAMA ISSUE COMPARISON CHART

[stuartcr]

I believe a big part of this partisan divisiveness is due primarily to the advent of mass, international communications, ie, internet and cable news shows.

[bereanway]

Bipartisanship to a great degree is responsible for the mess we fing ourselves in today. I’d much rather have partisan bickering than knuckling under and allowing the marxist, fascist agenda of 0 to come full bloom.

[ClearCase_guy]

The Left will never work with a Republican president. If McCain wins, there will be blood in the streets, and the Democrats will hate him more than they ever hated George W. Bush.

If Obama wins, the Left will declare a manadate and expect the Republicans to line-up behind all Democrat proposals and will demonize anyone who dares to oppose the new president.

There is no hope of a post-partisan future, so we must prepare for a struggle against entrenched opponents.

[nathanbedford]

A major party candidate for the presidency of the United States of America is found to have for the entire length of his adolescent and adult life confederates who are 1) self acknowledged communists 2) televised raging anti-Semite and anti-American hatemonger 3) braggadocio unrepentant domestic terrorist bomber and a murderer of policeman 4) felon convicted of bribing politicians.

And this author finds fault with the candidate who pointed out only the smallest part of this?

[Secret Agent Man]

That’s because this is the real world, and in the real world, people who have strong opposing views and believe they are right don’t just chuck their beliefs and start working with the other side.

It’s idealistic naiveity. It’s the storyline from a some utopian fictional tome.

You have to short-circuit your own conscience to think something like this is a good idea. You can be damn sure it also is a trick. The liberals NEVER compromise their beliefs. They only want YOU - not them - to compromise on your beliefs. If your beliefs were strong enough, you wouldn’t compromise. That’s how they view it. You never give an inch. And then, only give an inch if you are pretty certain you’ll get a mile.

[tbpiper]

pulls Washington out of the deep rut of partisan divisiveness it fell into in the 1990s

He's off a bit. It would be the 1790's and earlier. Our politics have always been highly partisan.

[ssaftler]

The point is that We the People gain more when Republicans and Democrats can agree to disagree. What we’ve seen in the past 15 years is that Republicans and Democrats agree to be disagreeable.

[Billthedrill]

Instead, partisan animosity is growing rather than waning. Democrats charge, essentially, that the McCain campaign is engaging in character assassination against their candidate, Barack Obama.

Yeah, especially Sarah Palin, who the Dems and the media have treated so very nicely. I'm afraid that pointing out Obama's pathologically hate-filled followers and incipient class warfare comes under the Truman dictum "I never gave them hell. I told the truth and they thought it was hell."

[andy58-in-nh]

The Democrats' idea of "partisanship" is when anyone opposes them. For that reason, they seek, as a matter of strategy, to eliminate practical opposition to their objectives. While Republicans busy themselves with efforts to build consensus and solicit public approval, the Democrats are planning to crush them. That is why they usually win and we usually lose.

The election is still three weeks away and Congressional Democrats are already strategizing over how to implement their agenda, including a re-imposition of the Fairness Doctrine and taxation of Internet content. The election is a mere formality in the scheme to extend their existing political hegemony.

Liberals already control 95% of the the news media, Congress, most government agencies, almost all colleges and universities, and virtually the entire entertainment industry. Conservatives have talk radio and some of the Internet and (for the moment) the Executive Branch of government. Liberals want them back and - make no mistake - they intend to take them.

[ModelBreaker]

The problem in Washington is not “partisanship.” It is a “non-partisan” looting of our nation’s wealth by both parties. This has been pretty much the state of affairs since the New Deal.

The parties argue. But the real argument is over which party gets to feed more freely at the piggy trough. To do that, both groups need to have lots of tax money and a big, powerful government.

[TexanToTheCore]

A little slow on the uptake aren’t you, Gerry?

[The Bishop]

Partisanship is not the problem it is a symptom of the problem. A growing vocal minority in this nation want to drag this nation from the Judeo Christian morality that she was built upon. The partisanship is a reflection of the battle for the cultural soul of this nation. Some think that this is bickering just for the fun of bickering, it is not. The heart and soul of this Nation has been in play since the ‘60’s and it is only getting worse. This ends in a division of these United States but niether side is willing to go there without a fight.When Obama ridiculed those who held their Bibles and their guns in high regard and made those ugly comments about the Scriptures he did more than make a few off hand comments, those statements are the core of the lefts political views and they sre the root issues of the Cultural war. One of the reasons that John McCain is a failure as a conservative and a candidate is that he continues to delude himself with the thought that we all love America and that simply IS NOT TRUE.