Reply #33: You are...

[TreasonousBastard]

"questioning is the motivation and psychology"

of these people and

"think it is appallingly maudlin"

You also describe them as trailer trash and warned us of a gag alert.

This appears to be making something of a value judgment about these people, and that is what I question.

I might tend to agree with that value judgment, and find that many people who wave their beliefs in my face are shallow-- even the ones I agree with. I have a real problems with flag wavers who know the symbol but don't know what it really symbolizes.

However, for each of us who derides or questions them, there are at least as many of them who deride us for what we may do. Just how many of us have been out there with equally mawkish anti-Shrub signage?

Methinks your complaint is really more about the message than the messengers.

Anyway, somewhere along the line we have to live with these people, and while drawing the battle lines in a campaign is great sport, none of us should really believe that they are wrong for expressing their ideas in pretty much the same way we often do.

It's the ideas that must be fought, not the people expressing them. When it gets personal, the battle is lost.