The hatred of Bush does not surprise me as much as the condescending attitude the bunch of jerks have regarding us "Bushbots". Somehow, they think that when they hurl personal vindictives at us, we're supposed to "understand" that they don't mean us (as individuals), which is a lame excuse for going out of your way to hurt your friends.
It's costing personal friendships with members I've known on this forum for a long time. Now, they sit off-camera in wannabe fora pitching mudballs at us. Eff 'em, the whole bunch.
Hear that, Losers? I've had it with your sniping at my friends.
Excellent point.
The attitude I got for daring to dissent on one hot-button issue pretty much pushed me FURTHER away from the position held by the folks who pretty much labeled me a RINO for DARING to have a different opinion than them.
Two other articles I found to be very informative for us came from TechCentralStation:
South Park Republicans:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/764345/posts South Park Rising:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/789569/posts One sentence from the second column is critical:
"The Republican party cannot hold its current majority without this increasingly powerful caucus. The party can continue to adapt and prevail, or splinter and lose."
There can be a very solid anti-Left majority in the country - but the problem is, there are condescending people on the right who drive away many of these folks who don't like the Left at all, but at the same time will read "Maxim" or "Cosmo", listen to folks like Howard Stern and Opie & Anthony, and who enjoy pop culture just fine, thank you very much.
How do we reahc the folks who do not like the control freaks on the Left, but who also have a healthy skepticism of the moralists who are on the right?