Sorry but schadenfreude is not the same thing as celebrating a hard won victory. After the what the RATS did in 2000, and the corrupt scams since then, from Jeffords to the NJ switch scheme, to the crass Wellstone memorial, we have the right to gloat a bit. There is comparison to what the Dems did at the Wellstone memorial. We won fair and square, despite the fraud and deceit of the RATS.
And I don't think the hatred is aimed so much at Democrat voters as at the corrupt and crooked leaders of that party.