Magnanimity is nice, but let's not forget the hideous race John McCain ran

[givemebackmycountry]

John Avarosis over at americablog.com nails it with one.


I'm watching THE VIEW, and Joy Behar was talking about how last night McCain "finally came back to who he was." I.e., he's been kind of an ass for the past several months, and finally started to find his honor again. The token Republican countered with the following: "I think it's hard because campaigns... really bring out the ugly in everyone on both sides. It's when you see them in their pure moments, Barack's speech last night, and John McCain's speech lsat night, that you see these moments of hope that they really have given us."

Horse shit.

After eight years of having Republicans call me an un-American troop-hating fag-loving socialist, after months of John McCain embracing the hate to a level where his own supporters were calling out for Barack Obama to be assassinated, no one is going to be permitted to tell me with a straight face that "oh you know, both sides do it."

Your side was abominable. Your side was hateful. Your side race-baited. Your side gay-baited. Your side lied like we've never seen in recent presidential campaign history. Your side used a tax-cheat who would do better under Obama's tax proposal to be your everyman on the issue of taxes. Your side, in a veiled effort at race-baiting, said Obama doesn't put his country first. Your side had the audacity to call Obama a socialist. Your side suggested he was a Muslim. Your side suggested he was a terrorist. Your side suggested he was Osama bin Laden.

Spare me the crap about how both sides do it. You people are a disgrace, you've been a disgrace for eight long years, and all your hate and lying and venom and vitriol finally bit you in your collective fat ass.

Democrats don't do nasty, and they certainly don't do it well. Lord knows I wish they did, but they don't. Republicans elevate it to a religion. You are the party of Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity. Angry, bitchy, bitter and elitist. What do we have to compare? Jesse Jackson, I often hear from my Republican friends. Um, maybe in 1980 when he was relevant. It's been 28 years, got any other examples? Michael Moore, you say? What has Michael Moore said - name one thing - that's comparable to the filth that regularly issues forth from Limbaugh, Hannity and Coulter and, of late, McCain and Palin?

Democrats, when they skewer (which isn't often enough), do it with biting truth. Republicans skewer, early and often, with vicious lies. It goes back to a more general philosophy that liberals have: If we just tell them the truth, the people will agree with us. Republicans are far less sanguine. They know that a good lie beats the truth any day of the week.

Except on a Tuesday in November.

[Chloroplast]

1. I appreciate his words but I won't forget that he allowed the hatred.

[FSogol]

2. Exactly. Here is the kind of campaign he ran:

"The Obama campaign was provided with reports from the Secret Service showing a sharp and disturbing increase in threats to Obama in September and early October, at the same time that many crowds at Palin rallies became more frenzied."

Quote from this excellent article:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/167581/page/2

[screembloodymurder]

3. He's right.

I need an act of contrition, 12 Hail Marys, 15 Our Fathers, and a daily session at the Stations of the Cross before I consider forgiving their sins.

[indepat]

4. Hideous is as hideous does and it can't be hidden or swept under the proverbial rug

:P

[MaraJade]

5. Democrats don't do nasty? Could have fooled me!

What with all of the bashing, trashing and general nastiness that was on grand display on DU over the past 3-4 months or so, I'm just
simply stunned at your statement. If any person asked any question, or raised any concern, or simply expressed honest fears, that poor soul was beaten up beyond all reason. Many, many people were so terrified, cowed or just plain disgusted that they quit this board for months just to get away from all of the vicious backbiting.

Democrats DO do nasty, and it is all the more pitiful that they criticize, condemn, and censure EACH OTHER rather than spending their time and intellect to form thoughtful, sharp and civil challenges to our opposition (no one should skewer anyone else).

If this incivility continues, or if an "eye for an eye" attitude prevails, it will not be long before we are rendered irrelevant once more. We need to follow the examples of people who meet both triumph and disaster with grace and class and leave the hatefulness behind. We should not use the occasion of victory to count coup by lowering ourselves into the gutter with the likes of idiots like Limbaugh or Coulter. We are and MUST be BETTER than that.