For a party that uses an elephant as its sympol, the shrill, whining partisans of the GOP have short memories.
When Bill Clinton occupied the White House, we received lots of mail (both on paper and via email) praising our columns exposing that President's lies and duplicity. We were, they said, one of the good guys.
Now that George W. Bush lives at 1600 Penn, those same partisans now call us "liars," "pimps" and "tools of the left wing."
Why? Because we dare to apply the same standards to their boy. We actually have the gall to expect Bush to tell the truth and then call him on it when he, like Clinton, lies to the American people.
I'm not surprised. When Clinton was President, Democrats called us "right wing fanatics" and "idiots." Now they praise us in emails and on anti-Bush websites.
Sadly, too many political partisans are idiots, brainless fools who let their party leaders do their thinking for them. If they have any functioning gray matters, it long ago turned into mush by listening to -- and believing -- the bullshit that comes out of political parties.
I stopped caring what partisans -- Democrat or Republican -- think. Why waste time with lemmings?
Sad but true. As the saying goes,
"Republicans... Democrats... same shit, different assholes"
The far left Kool-Aid drinkers seem to spend their time watching Faux and listening to Oxy-Rush and O'Leilly.
God I hope middle America FINALLY wakes up!
Maybe that is the very reason I stopped voting. They are all a bunch of idiots, and there is no real difference in the parties anymore.
It really is sad to see this great country going down the (outhouse) hole.
The principle to remember is this: Partisanship is inherently dishonest.
To be partisan, you have to minimize your own errors and maximize those of other parties, maximize your own positives and minimize those of other parties.
Neo-cons are not all wrong--or right.
Leftists are not all wrong--or right.
Centrists are not all wrong--or right.
Truth exists, but partisans don't wish to find it.