Very true. Do you think it helps to stoop to their level? Look, you guys had to put up with eight years of insane Clinton conspiracy theories about Vince Foster, Travelgate, etc etc. I would have thought that would make you less likely to want to engage in similar stupidity. Obviously I don't agree with the assessment of Bush's presidency that most Democrats put forward (I have my own problems with it), but I certainly am aware that there are plenty of legitimate criticisms that can be made. I don't think it helps to advance that cause or convince anyone that it's worth listening to when the legitimate criticism is sprinkled with loaded phraseology like "he's a coward" or "I hate him". It's similar to the way the modern civil rights movement gets marginalized when Sheila Jackson Lee tells a newspaper that the naming conventions for hurricanes are too "lily white". There are plenty of serious issues that minority communities face; drawing attention to absurdities such as that just draws attention away from the worthy issues and it gives political opponents an easy excuse to dismiss civil rights advocacy as a scattershot amalgamation of race-baiting loonies and grift-and-grab patronage. Americans who vote Democratic have plenty of things on which they can legitimately oppose Bush without delving into shrill talk-radio fare. It does nothing to advance the Democratic agenda or increase its chances of being taken seriously by conservative-leaning independents to adopt the very tactics that were considered so offensive during the Clinton years.
Well, I don't think calling him a coward is exactly the same as accusing the Clintons of murder, rape, etc. Nor is it nearly as bad as calling a Vietnam veteran a turncoat or accusing him of treason. However, your point is well-taken. I shouldn't stoop to the idiotic and offensive level that some relish here.
Yeah, so sad to see Ben Afleck, Robert Byrd, Teddy Kennedy, Maureen Dowd, Michael Moore, Dave Mathews, Linda Ronstadt, Elton John, and Al Franken all rotting away in jail as political prisoners.
Nope, but the title of the thread was meant to mock the left. I don't think any President is capable of crushing dissent in this day and age, though you "Bush is Hitler" folks have those delusions.
