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Reply to "Politically Incorrect VI"

But that's why we love Darla! She's such a great antagonist. Gives the Boards a good dose of drama.

My beef isn't so much with Republicans per se as it is with the type of vile neo-con that has emerged with such vociferous, hateful bile in the post-Reagan years.

Though I do genuinely believe there are more kind-hearted people in the Democratic Party than the Republican one, just because someone has a "D" after their name doesn't mean that person is a big progressive that I support or agree with. Likewise just because someone has an "R" after their name doesn't automatically mean that person is a fascist pig. A Republican from New Jersey or Maine, for example, might actually be better on issues close to my heart, like gay rights or environmental protection, than a Democrat from someplace like Montana or Mississippi. In fact there are even some Republicans that I kind of like, such as Olympia Snowe or Susan Collins or Arnold the Terminator.

That said, social conservatives are the absolute scum of the earth as far as I'm concerned. They can take their hideous, bigoted pitch fork rebellions and crawl back under the rock they came from.

Fiscal conservatives I can try to work with, but I just don't buy their vision of the market as some almighty salvation and their expectation of getting a dollar for a dime. If conservatives hate government so much, then they should do everyone a favor and just stay the hell out of it. Leave it to people who at least try to give government a function in ensuring a common good instead of using it as a vehicle of contempt for every person who isn't a stock market wiz by bleeding the system dry and leaving everybody to scrabble for themselves.

And frankly I don't understand how anyone – liberal, conservative or anyone in between -- can view the Bush administration as successful. If money is what you really care about, how can you take heart from the fact that the Bushies ballooned the national deficit and, after eight years, have nothing to show for it? Admit it Darla, this administration has been a train wreck by any standard and everyone knows it. The evidence is just too overwhelming.
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