It's Okay To Question Your Patriotism

It's un-American, as well as prohibited to question the patriotism of those attempting to undermine a war effort, but question Obama's policies and this is what you get. Liberals have no shame when it comes to hypocrisy. And I really regret that we are going to be reaping the unpleasant benefits to our politics going forward. Much more of this and the Right is going to get just as angry and ugly as the Left. Twenty-ten is going to be a no holds barred blood match politically speaking.

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), who has had an eventful couple of weeks to say the least, believes House Republican opposition to climate change legislation and the stimulus indicates they’re cheering against the good ol’ US of A.

“It appears that the Republican Party leadership in the Congress has made a decision that they want to deny President Obama success, which means, in my mind, they are rooting against the country, as well,” the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman told WAMU radio host Diane Rehm on Tuesday morning, promoting his new book, “The Waxman Report.”

Update: Conservative GPW's Congressman is Waxman? Well, that stinks.

... my Congressman, ever eager to frustrate Republican efforts at reform, (is) now criticizing Republicans for attempting to do to Democratic legislation today what he did to Republican legislation when the GOP was in the majority:....

Comments

[Slide]

For the right to complain about the left using the "patriotism" card is quite ironic to say the least.

Bush and company used 911 to bludgeon anyone who disagreed with them with the charge of being for the terrorists. Cheney is still doing it. Don't believe the fed gov't should be able to tap your phone or read your emails without a warrant? Then you must be for the terrorists. Not for holding Americans as enemy combatants without the right to see an attorney? You must be in al Queada. Against torture? ... yada yada yada.

But if you are someone that wants to see Obama fail.... which means America fails... then no one can question your patriotism? Gov Rick Perry suggests Texas may want to secede from the union but he is a patriot? Sarah's hubby Todd is a memeber of a party that wants Alaska to secede from the USA but don't question if he is anti-American. I think the party pretty much defines anti-American doesn't it?

hey, what is that saying my mom used to say, "if the shoe fits, wear it" Ok, maybe it wasn't my mom but still applicable.

[hoholder]

I personally do not think even ho holds should be barred in 2010.

[anon]

I have to say on this particular issue that it looks to me like the Republicans are reaping what they sowed over the last 8 years, I hate to agree w/Slide, but the GOP went pretty far in impugning the patriotism of anyone that didn't support the Iraq War, the Patriot Act or any number of Bush's other counter productive, largely unconstitutional policies as relating to national security.

The Democrats, it appears, finally learned how to turn Rove's tactics back onto Republicans, and for that, the Republicans have only themselves to blame for wholeheartedly supporting any whack idea that Bush came up with becuase Karl Rove had convinced them they were going to have a permanent marjority.

The moral of the story is that when you give up your principles for expediency, pork or more power, its a bit hard to pick them back up, no harm/no foul when you want to.

[jana]

At least they've stopped calling us racists.

[O!]

Odd that neither Slide nor anon can cite any specific instances of people's patriotism being impugned by Bush or "the GOP" because of disagreement over the Iraq war, the Patriot Act, or anything else.

Also kinda odd, that Obama has continued the Iraq War, the Patriot act, warrantless wiretapping, predator drone attacks against innocent civilians, indefinite detention, etc. etc.

Anon did pretty much nail the Democrats, though, with "The moral of the story is that when you give up your principles for expediency, pork or more power, its a bit hard to pick them back up, no harm/no foul when you want to." And the Republicans keep calling them out on this.

[Jay]

"But if you are someone that wants to see Obama fail.... which means America fails"

Faulty premises.

[Kelly]

I certainly question someones patriotism when they side with our enemy. Everything else is just policy disagreement.

[ExurbanKevin]

"Bush and company used 911 to bludgeon anyone who disagreed with them with the charge of being for the terrorists. Cheney is still doing it. Don't believe the fed gov't should be able to tap your phone or read your emails without a warrant? Then you must be for the terrorists. Not for holding Americans as enemy combatants without the right to see an attorney? You must be in al Queada. Against torture? ... yada yada yada."

So now the acceptable standard of behavior is the one you previously despised. It's ok to question patriotism now because Bu$Hitler (allegedly) did it first?

I thought the idea of "progressivism" was to be, you know, *progressive* , and get beyond the old, tired ways of doing things.

[dan]

Just because the left complained about people questioning their patriotism, doesn't mean that anyone, anywhere actually did. Show one time you saw, read, heard anyone on the right actually questioning someone's patriotism.

[southdakotaboy]

Well the best thing for America is for Obama to fail. Obama and the Democrats are traitors to our country. As America starts to feel the effects of what the left wants to do to this country there will be a rising tide of anger.

We on the right need to focus this anger on the leaders of the left and the people who have supported the left (NBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC) THEN WE NEED TO PURGE THEM.

[Jeff]

I personally believe that if Obama fails, America wins in the long run. We're still trying to recover from some of FDR's statecraft. Obama is trying to write a check we can never cash.

[anon]

You must not have seen any of the GOP's ads where the bombs were streaming toward the U.S. or even read Dan's blog where he opined that the generals who criticized the war should be brought up on treason charges, or even read any coverage of the Iraq War where the patriotism of anyone who wasn't in lock step with the GOP had their patriotism impugned.

Obama has continued all the Bush policies because once you are in power you don't give it up, especially not a craven empty suit narcisist like Obama. That was one of the major reasons why those Bush policies should have been opposed at the time, because once they are in place, just like any government program, its almost impossible to get them removed, the genie doesn't go back in the bottle.

I tried to tell my fellow conservatives that all of these crazy Bush policies could easily be turned on them or anyone in the future, when the Dems got back in power, but everyone was drunk on Rove kool aid of a long term unassailable majority and so nobody cared. Surely you remember when the GOP wanted to outlaw the filibuster? Ha, of course now it doesn't even matter w/a 60 seat majority, but you probably get the point anyway.

[Henry Bowman]

The only way for America to succeed (dare I say survive?) is for Obama, and his far left/socialist claptrap ideas to fail, and soon.

[cubanbob]

Its unpatriotic to aid and abet the enemy during war time, something the Democrats and the left forgot during the second Bush term.
The Constitution, something that Waxman and the Democrats seem to forget is something they swore to uphold against enemies, foreign and domestic.
National defense is a constitutional requirement. AGW is not (besides it being fraudulent). Neither is national health care a requirement.
Considering the massive violations of the Constitution by the Democrats and Obama and their continuing attempts to violate the Constitution denying them success is a patriotic duty and a requirement of the oath of office on the part of the Republicans.

[mad-as-H]

Make the left irrelevant. Cancel your print media and cable and unplug your TV. Only read blogs that are intelligent.

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is present, will it make a noise?

[James Felix]

There are two problems with the Liberal responses here.

First is that they're starting from a false premise. Bush didn't question anyone's patriotism. He should have, but he didn't.

Second is that there's no comparison between the two sets of policies. It arguable, if not obvious, that Obama's policies would be to the detriment of this country. Therefore, working to deny him the successful implementation of those policies isn't rooting against America, it's an attempt to protect it.

What Liberals did over the last 8 years, by contrast, was undermine our prosecution of an actual shooting war. There is no way to credibly argue that it is in your country's best interest to lose a war. Absoulutely no way.

Which means that even if Republicans had questioned Liberal's patriotism they would have been entirely justified in doing so. For Liberals to do it now is not only hypocritical, it's factually incorrect.

[Greg]

Anon- Bullshit. No one in Republican power did that , they just bent over and took the crap from the left. I am tried of that strawman and the whiners that repeat it. What happenned to "dissent is patriotic"? Oh thats right, it only works in your favor.

And slide, Obama failing at this point means America succeeds but not having more Gov't and unheard of debt. His policies on Wiretapping and the war are the same at this point no matter how much he has the media try to spin that it is not, so that part is the same.

[cubanbob]

To put short and sweet: What's good for Obama and the left is bad for America.

[O!]

No, anon, I didn't see those things.

Can you provide some direct links / URLs to primary sources that support your assertions?

I'm betting that you can't and won't, but heck, it doesn't cost anything to ask.

[Mike K]

I tried to tell my fellow conservatives that all of these crazy Bush policies

Say what ?

So Cap and Tax is patriotic as we dismantle the American economy ?

[peter jackson]

They can't point to any of Bush's "lies" either. Bush was so straight up and so squeaky clean that after eight years the only thing that they could possibly try to impeach Bush for was eating his breakfast, and it's made the left totally bat-shit crazy.

[PA]

Yea, like democrats have never tried to "deny" a republican president success.

[Matt]

anon and Slide, if it was a horrible thing for the Republicans to do... why is it suddenly acceptable for the Democrats? Violating your own belief structure because someone else doesn't believe the same thing you do, doesn't seem like a winning strategy.

So what is it going to be?? A person's patriotism can be questioned based on their actions or statements or it can't? Currently your position seems to be if you're a Democrat it is alright because the Republicans did it, but if the Republicans act in the exact same manner it is a horrible and unfair attack.

[Greg Toombs]

Socialism is failure. The more we have, the more we fail.

[Max]

The left is an unreasoning beast.

[Slide]

"anon and Slide, if it was a horrible thing for the Republicans to do... why is it suddenly acceptable for the Democrats?"

Tired of going to a gun fight with a knife. Sorry that we have to get down in the gutter with Rovian politics but we are NOT going to just turn the other cheek anymore. Sorry guys.

[megapotamus]

Obama and his lickspittles are the worst enemies this country has ever known. Obama's success is the death of this nation. Damn right, I question their patriotism. I deny it flat out. These morons are loyal to a putrid fantasy of turning free men into draft animals with themselves holding the whip. They destroy our energy, they destroy our economy, they destroy our medicine, they destroy our wealth, they destroy our national principles, they destroy our legal system and all simply because they long, quite rightly, to destroy themselves. These vermin are the enemies of every decent citizen.

[spmat]

Slide, you Moby.

[Slide]

are you little wingnuts kidding? Bush and company didn't question the patritotims of critics of the Iraq war or the Patriot Act?

Nov 26, 2003 | What nerve of President Bush to question the patriotism of his Democratic opponents, two of whom are highly decorated Purple Heart and Bronze and Silver Star veterans and all of whom have labored long to make this a better country.

But the television ad that the Republican Party is running on Bush's behalf in Iowa this week does just that, making the outrageous insinuation that critics of the president's policies are in fact supporters of terrorists.

Although Cleland voted for the Iraq War authorization last year, that did not stop his Republican opponent, Saxby Chambliss -- who avoided service in Vietnam -- from defeating war hero Cleland in 2002 by using attack ads that questioned his patriotism.

In those ads Cleland's face was presented alongside pictures of bin Laden and Hussein as if they were one and the same. As has been famously said, the appeal to patriotism is often "the last refuge of a scoundrel."

"Some are now attacking the president for attacking the terrorists," the ad states. "Some call for us to retreat, putting our national security in the hands of others." The ad urges viewers to tell Congress "to support the president's policy of preemptive self-defense."

This is dirty politics at its absolute lowest, equating criticism with cowardice.

http://dir.salon.com/story/opinion/scheer/2003/11/26/cleland/index.html

[Good Lt.]

Leaving aside the fact that Bush nor the GOP "questioned anyone's patriotism" (lefty code for "those GOP meanies questioned our judgment and over-the-top rhetoric during a shooting war waaaaaah", shorter anon and Slide say:

"Two wrongs make a right because Democrats say so!"

OR TRY

"Democrats doing what they once on principle decried is politically expedient, so it must be right!"

Nice to see the left adheres to their "principles" when it's their political backsides on the line.

Always remember the mantra the left comforted itself with during the Bush years:

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism ~ Howard Zinn"

[mishu]

But if you are someone that wants to see Obama fail.... which means America fails.

WRONG!!!

[Slide]

One of the most popular lines in the right-wing Republican playbook is, "I am not questioning his patriotism, I'm questioning his judgment."--Spiro T. Agnew, 1970

It's a brilliant ju-jitsu chop of language that deflects criticism of attacks on patriotism by setting up a false choice. The practitioners are, of course, questioning both the patriotism and the judgment of the Democrat in question. The initial attack is invariably of the form "The Democrat will do what our enemies want, and America will suffer."

In the last month, Zell Miller used the line in his RNC speech to attack the leaders of the Democratic Party, Dick Cheney has used it repeatedly to attack John Kerry, and Henry Hyde used it to attack Rep. Gary Ackerman.

The line was used to good effect by Reagan in 1984 and by Bush père in the Bush-Dukakis debate, but it came off poorly when he used it against Clinton in '92. It didn't resurface until the 2002 Senatorial races against Wellstone, Cleland, Carnahan, Alex Sanders, and Tim Johnson.

But it began with the great American patriot Spiro Agnew in 1970, stumping for--guess-who--Poppy Bush, who was running against Lloyd Bentsen for Senate. Agnew attacked the anti-Vietnam War stance of McGovern and Hatfield, adding the infamous line to soften his fiery stump speeches.

No publication quoting the line has mentioned Agnew since 1988; a few modern publications refer back to the Bush-Dukakis debate. Yet again our media has failed us.

The long record of the line's use is below, including the rare Democratic uses. Sources available online are linked. I'm not including the uses on the right-wing blogostan.

[Slide]

(CNN) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama defended himself and his wife Sunday against suggestions that they are insufficiently patriotic.

Sen. Barack Obama defended himself and his wife against recent suggestions that they are not patriotic.

After a town hall meeting in Lorain, Ohio, a reporter asked Obama about "an attempt by conservatives and Republicans to paint you as unpatriotic."

The reporter cited the fact that Obama once failed to put his hand over his heart while singing the national anthem.

Obama replied that his choice not to put his hand on his heart is a behavior that "would disqualify about three-quarters of the people who have ever gone to a football game or baseball game."

The reporter also noted that the Illinois senator does not wear an American flag lapel pin, has met with former members of the radical anti-Vietnam War group, Weather Underground, and his wife was quoted recently as saying she never felt really proud of the United States until recently.

[TallDave]

“It appears that the Democrat Party leadership in the Congress has made a decision that they want to deny President Bush success, which means, in my mind, they are rooting against the country, as well,” the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman told WAMU radio host Diane Rehm on Tuesday morning, promoting his new book, “The Burton Report.”

Yeah, I don't remember that happening either.

Criticizing Democrats who were wrongly saying we'd lost the war while our troops were in harm's way is one thing. But this is just a debate over economic policy.

Apparently questioning Marxist economic theories is now treasonous. Welcome to the People's Republic of America.

[Nasty Lefty]

Payback,s a bitch, ain't it, Riehl?

[Good Lt.]

Salon is a leftwing rag. That's like citing Daily Kos as a ligitimate source of information.

And it's an editorial. Editorials are OPINIONS by definition, not facts.

Try again.

>This is dirty politics at its absolute lowest, equating criticism with cowardice.

You are cowards (and your President is continuing the same war(s) you marched against from 2003-2008), but that has nothing to do with "questioning your patriotism."

FAIL.

>"Some call for us to retreat, putting our national security in the hands of others."

When you call for the UN (who authorized the Iraq war) to dictate our national security, you are calling for us to put our national security in the hands of others.

When you call for use to GET OUT OF IRAQ NOW, you are calling for a military retreat.

Truth hurts, but it has nothing to do with "questioning your patriotism."

FAIL. Again.

No wonder your boy up there is flailing.

[Slide]

I could go on all day, but here is another one:

Republican Inhofe Assails Obama's "Love of Country"
Senator James "Ice Age" Inhofe (R-OK), who has made a fool out of himself many times on the Senate floor by denying the existence of climate change -- calling global warming a creation of "the media, Hollywood elites and our pop culture" -- is at it again with a different kind of outrageous statement.

Speaking to Oklahoma delegates at the Republican National Convention last week, Inhofe gave his guarantee that the GOP's presidential nominee, John McCain, would win in November and said it would be because voters don't believe Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is a true patriot.

"Do you really want to have a guy as commander in chief of this country when you can question whether or not he really loves his country?" said Inhofe. "That's the big question.''

http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com/2008/09/republican-inhofe-assails-obamas-love.html

[Slide]

Let me know when you want me to stop:

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) displayed her demagoguery on MSNBC's "Hardball" last Friday when she suggested that Obama harbored "anti-American" views. She also suggested a congressional witch hunt was needed -- not unlike Joe McCarthy's destructive 1950s campaign -- to "find out if they are pro-America or anti-America." Bachmann's comments elicited a windfall of donations for her opponent, Elwyn Tinklenberg, and a campaign to censure her.
Watch the video below:

[Slide]

This is not very hard to find guys:

North Carolina GOP Representative Robin Hayes was caught in a lie on October 18 when said that "liberals hate real Americans that work and accomplish and achieve and believe in God." Hayes' campaign claimed he never uttered those words ... until the tape showed up.

[anon]

I never said it was okay for the Democrats to question the patriotism of Republicans who don't support Obama, what I said was that the Republicans did this to the Democrats already and so they were reaping what they sowed, and sorry, pretending that it was not insinuated and outright stated that being against the war was unpatriotic and treasonous by many Republicans in and out of office is just as disingenuous as pretending that the primary stated reason for the invasion was that Iraq posed a serious threat to the US and that the country was chock full of WMD.

It is simply one in an unending series of examples as to why the country is falling apart and why it will continue to fall apart, because when push comes to shove, the GOP doesn't care much more about its alleged principles than the Democrats do, if they did then they wouldn't have gone along with raising the debt ceiling or supported the idea of detaining American citizens without trial or warrentless wiretapping or any of the other Bush policies that the did support.

None of this makes Obama any less destructive for the country, it only makes it more plain why the GOPs image is now in the toilet, because the GOP didn't adhere to its principles any better than the Democrats did and now they are in a very poor position to stop Obama.

They're all hypocrits of the highest order, with the possible exception of Ron Paul.

[Good Lt.]

>After a town hall meeting in Lorain, Ohio, a reporter asked Obama about "an attempt by conservatives and Republicans to paint you as unpatriotic."

So a sympathetic reporter who can't produce a single quote to back up his fake question makes up one, asks his hero Barack Obama to respond to the made up quote, and he proceeds to respond to the softball. Cute, but inadequate.

Can you cite a quote by any GOP politician, or Bush, or Cheney, calling any Democrat "unpatriotic" - or even using that word? If there are as many as you claim, you shouldn't be having this much trouble producing one.

The only people who have EVER used the phrase "stop questioning my patriotism" are liberals afraid of being perceived as unpatriotic. It's your neurosis and mass paranoia that has you whining about this.

Produce a direct quote or stop erecting straw men and then smashing them. It's more impotent and pathetic than your President's "economic policies."

[Slide]

This was not that long ago guys remember?

McCain Questioning Obama's Patriotism?
In a front page story this morning, the Washington Post examines Sen. John McCain's repeated criticism of Sen.
Barack Obama for failing to visit wounded troops while in Germany "because he could not take reporters with him, despite no evidence that the charge is true." The attacks "come despite repeated pledges by the Republican that he will never question his rival's patriotism." Despite "serious and repeated queries about the charge over several days, McCain and his allies continued yesterday to question Obama's patriotism by focusing attention on the canceled hospital visit."

Despite the Post's judgment that the attacks are questioning Obama's patriotism, the New York Times reports this morning that an ad based on the issue is generating considerable free press as it has "been shown fully or partly on local, national and cable newscasts" "hundreds" of times, costing the campaign not a dime. In contrast, the AP notes that the McCain campaign actually only paid to air the spot four times total, all on Sunday.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/bulletin/bulletin_080730.htm

[Rusty Shackleford]

When two people get in a pissing contest, both get wet. Patriot? People in both parties love this country, they just go about showing that love in different ways. Get over yourselves.

However! When POTUS and SecState both side against a friendly nation which is trying to uphold its Constitution in favor of a potential dictator who is supported by enemies of the U.S., it makes me wonder. The AP keeps calling it a coup when, in fact, the Honduran Supreme Court, Congress, and Atty General are upholding the Honduran Constitution they were sworn to defend.

Look for an attempt to repeal the 22nd Amendment so Obama can become the next Chavez.

[megapotamus]

Here's a question that takes us back to the original points. As most people know, the Democrats, otherwise known as domestic enemies, have a solid majority in both Houses. So what just what do Republicans and/or their leadership have to do with any of this? Democrats can do whatever they may Constitutionally do, and much besides, without a single Republican vote. Are the wobbly Democrats out to scuttle Obama? Are they practicing treason? No action of a Democrat should be interpreted as anything BUT treason until countering evidence is presented so I am certainly willing to believe that. But what do Democrats care about Reps on this issue or any other for? Waxman, like all the wretched lunatics of the Democratic party is a cowardly buffoon but even he knows that Cap and Trade is a fraud. Its aim is simply the destruction of the private economy which has been the great project of the Democrats since Roosevelt. Waxman desires to spread the inevitable blame around. The only chance that McCain or some number of other egomanical morons of the Rep leftwing will not give in is if they are personally insulted out of their usual agreeableness. So spout on, Waxman, Frank, Reid... all you scum. Spout on. Declare it at every opportunity. But we must do it too and we have the added advantage of telling the truth. The Democrats are the enemies of this nation. Every one.

[Slide]

This one is good. Claims republicans never attack Dems on patriotism and then does exactly that. Gotta love em.

Almost two months after Wall Street Journal OpinionJournal.com editor James Taranto made his April 19 pronouncement that "Republicans almost never question Democrats' patriotism. ... [T]o do so would look vicious and unseemly" -- and just one month after doing precisely that -- Taranto accused Democrats of engaging in "anti-American propaganda." Taranto's June 16 statement echoed a May 17 column in which he claimed, "[S]ome Democrats do not seem to be on the side of their own country."

From Taranto's June 16 "Best of the Web" column on OpinionJournal.com, the website of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page:

"If you listen to prominent Democrats like Ted Kennedy, Robert Byrd and Al Gore, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that they'd rather see America lose the war than the president win re-election. It's bad enough that one party is willing to engage in what as a practical matter amounts to anti-American propaganda."

[Good Lt.]

>The attacks "come despite repeated pledges by the Republican that he will never question his rival's patriotism."

And he didn't he said this:

"Sen. John McCain's repeated criticism of Sen.
Barack Obama for failing to visit wounded troops while in Germany "because he could not take reporters with him, despite no evidence that the charge is true."

Ironic that you can't cite a single quotation of anybody questioning the patriotism of a single Democrat. Questioning their judgment? Hell yes. It would have been a dereliction of duty NOT to question the judgment of the American left. They deserve questioning, and even more so now that they're flailing around in power, as you can see by their "stewardship" of the economy, for example.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Speaking of pampered, privileged people who have a chip on their shoulder about America and want to CHANGE it,

"FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY ADULT LIFE, I'M PROUD OF MY COUNTRY."

Who said that? Is that a statement of love for the country, or a statement of resentment for it? What happened before her husband was running for President? I guess she wasn't proud of America?

See, you fail, Slide. You're leaders (at the very top) have openly admitted they don't like America. They want it "changed." Changed from what? They don't say. Changed to what? Blank out. But all they know is that it isn't good in their view.

Hence, they don't like the country as it is/was. That's called a logical progression of thought. Unlike your blog posts and quotes which do not support your central allegations, which you're citing as "evidence" of something.

STOP QUESTIONING OUR PATRIOTISM, WINGNUTZ!@!

[Slide]

Ok. I'm tired now. I'm not going to do your research for you. If you want to suggest that the right doesn't portray the left as being Un-American or unpatriotic almost with every breath they take then there is nothing that will convince you. It is what i despise about the right most of all. Disagree with my policies. Disagree with my ideology. That is all fair and fine. But the right is never happy with that. They have to paint their opponents as not wanting what is best for the country. Not being patriotic enough (remember the flag pin controversy with Obama, or his hand not being over his heart for national anthem). Or not having family values (kinda funny now with what is going on with Vitter, Craig, Sanford, Ensign, Foley, et al).

You demonize your opponents. Just read the comments from the right wing blogs and what is said about Obama. What was said about the Clintons.

Never was Samuel Johnson's phrase more apt: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel"

[Chris]

G-d D-mn America! It's in the Bible! Look it up. What? Never heard it? Me neither. Inside job on 9-11? The heck you say? Tower 7?

No reason to question any of that. Move along.

[kwo]

Mark Tapscott had a good take on the whole "traitor" thing last week.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Let_s-leave-the-gutter-to-the-Left-7909439.html

[Good Lt.]

>Disagree with my policies. Disagree with my ideology.

We do, thanks. Any fool can see that they're destroying our economy right now, and they're going to continue to do so while limiting freedom and destroying our health care system.

>You demonize your opponents.

Democrats, always playing the victim fighting again the tyranny of others opinions, never do this, though. Ever. They never have.

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=Bush+is+Hitler&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&fp=G4bfF1vBNGY

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=Bush%20is%20Hitler&sa=N&tab=wi&um=1

But those sites and pics were obviously a Rovian plot to make you look like a gaggle of foul hypocrites, right?