re: #140 SanFranciscoZionist

If anyone was a paragon of virtue, they wouldn’t be in politics. But I do believe that there’s a type of rhetoric that’s being described here that’s more specific than ‘our honorable opponents suck’.

It is possible that Democrats have said similar, but I don’t recall examples of the same kind of things Dreggas sites above being said by Democrats of name. If I’m wrong, remind me.

If I’m right, this doesn’t mean Democrats are ‘nice people’, mind you.

I understand your point and concur.

That said, I can find outrageous statements by Dems that have no counterpart on the GOP- and that kind of cherry picking is only more divisive.

Cynthia McKinney and that ‘Republicans want you to die’ guy from Florida immediately come to mind, along with ‘George Bush is racist and wants blacks to die’ in the Katrina aftermath

Like you, I abhor the hard right- but the idea of piety in politics is absurd