Reason why I am not a Neo-Republican

[Gustaf]

I'm sorry that in your insignifigant world the Democrats do no wrong. It's both, as long as it's not the Dems right? The vile sh*t coming out of the liberal spin machine is a lot worse than what the Republicans are dishing out. Nobody on the conservative side is saying they hate John Kerry. We don't make personal attacks against him. We don't call him evil. The Republicans have surprisingly kept it to the issues in this election, I just wish the Democrats would do the same.

OH COME ON! That's b/c Kerry is an insignificant person! You do say that he is dangerous to the country. It appears to me that there's a lot more hate for Democrats among Republicans than the other way around, which has to do with the fact that the GOP is more ideological and more extremist, whereas the Democratic party is more of a big compromise.

[Gustaf]

I'm sorry that in your insignifigant world the Democrats do no wrong. It's both, as long as it's not the Dems right? The vile sh*t coming out of the liberal spin machine is a lot worse than what the Republicans are dishing out. Nobody on the conservative side is saying they hate John Kerry. We don't make personal attacks against him. We don't call him evil. The Republicans have surprisingly kept it to the issues in this election, I just wish the Democrats would do the same.

OH COME ON! That's b/c Kerry is an insignificant person! You do say that he is dangerous to the country. It appears to me that there's a lot more hate for Democrats among Republicans than the other way around, which has to do with the fact that the GOP is more ideological and more extremist, whereas the Democratic party is more of a big compromise.

Gustaf, I respect your opinions but if you believe that you are dead wrong.  There is a huge amount of hate among the Democrats.  I daresay that many Democrats hate George Bush more than they hate Usama bin Laden and the Islamic terrorists, and would rather see the terrorists be successful than Bush.

Republican hatred for Clinton generally stopped at the water's edge.  Republicans supported Clinton on his foreign policy, even when he was committing troops to superfluous missions, like Kosovo, which the Europeans should have handled themselves if they such great pretensions to being a world power.

But in their usual fashion, the Democrats have sought to blame the president for foreign policy failures to which the previous Democratic administration contributed.

I am not talking about individuals, but rather of parties. But I do get a little tired of people acting like, not jsut them personally, but their entire side is somehow morally superior, especially when it is fundamentally untrue. It's just mindlessly partisan and I dislike it when people fail to view things objectively due to their own prejudices and political opnions.

I maintain that Republicans seem to view Democrats as a party with more animosity than the other way around. Bush is an idol of the right, he is a bit like a manifest god, so he attracts a lot of hate and suspicion from Democrats. Kerry is a nobody, so comparing Bush-hate with Kerry-hate makes little sense. The same goes for Clinton really.

[Gustaf]

I really don't think you're right, Gustaf.  I deal with Democrats on a daily basis, and I find that while they hate Republicans, they are usually unable to come up with a coherent reason why.

They hate Bush but are usually unable to really explain why.  In some ways, it's like the Republican hatred for Clinton.

Democrats tend to have a "blame American first" philosophy, so their hatred of Bush jibes well with that, and they love to blame him for inciting a terrorist attack that was fully planned before he even became president.

Well, you're a Republican. Most people tend to not understand the other side on issues like this, or think their opponents are evil, ignorant, etc. I find it funny that people say 'Oh, Democrats are so one-eyed they ALL think we're evil, bla, bla'. It's kind of the same thing as most people being convinced that the media is biased against them. Or that there is a dangerous force in society pushing evil agendas. The intresting thing is of course that if you put together the views of different people the Religious Right and the atheist feminazis are BOTH taking over the country SIMULTANEOUSLY.

I'll readily admit that I base my view primarily on what I read on this forum, since I don't live in the US, so I guess my picture might be soewhat skewered.