1 idiot = 1 vote

“Her defense, however, is that she was making a joke, not speaking a slur. Her logic suggests that the two are mutually exclusive. They’re not. And when you unpack Coulter’s joke, you see she does both. Her joke was that the world is so absurd that someone like Isaiah Washington is forced to go into rehab for calling someone a “faggot.” She’s absolutely right that this is absurd and funny and an example of p.c. insanity. She could have made a joke about that – a better one, to be sure – but a joke. But she didn’t just do that. She added to the joke a slur: “John Edwards is a faggot.” That’s why people gasped and then laughed and clapped so heartily. I was in the room, so I felt the atmosphere personally. It was an ugly atmosphere, designed to make any gay man or woman in the room feel marginalized and despised. To put it simply, either conservatism is happy to be associated with that atmosphere, or it isn’t. I think the response so far suggests that the conservative elites don’t want to go there, but the base has already been there for a very long time.”

It’s your party…the racist, homophobic boorish relative you wish you didn’t have to see in your living room.

Don’t get mad at me because you don’t like my descriptions of your party, since you know quite well they are accurate.

Anybody that has a grudge to bear, or an axe to grind, against some kind of group, finds a happy home in the Republican party…the party that can’t exist without an Enemy.

Honestly, it’s a dark part of conservative nature, and the Republican party has had a lot of success over the past few decades appealing to it…which is why people like Coulter, Limbaugh, Savage, et. al., are so successful.

In other words, for your unbelievably poor taste in insulting your host: get bent…

I think most conservatives DO fit much of the mean-spirited stereotype…and while there are certainly exceptions (put yourself in this category if it pleases you), there is a reason stereotypes come into existence.

Sure, not ALL conservatives are religious nuts who think gay people are going to ‘destroy’ marriage, but enough of them are to be a big force in your party.

Sure, not ALL conservatives are hate-filled bigots, but enough of them are to make Ann Coulter a bestselling author and invited to the main stage among your presidential contenders.

Give it up, man…you’re like the nice guy at the KKK rally claiming that not EVERYBODY in the white hoods burns crosses…just a few of them do while the rest are just sticking up for their rights and don’t hate black people at all.

I guess you haven’t listened to right-wing radio lately. Or ever.

Your party is just a big hate club…figure it out, dude.

Visiting Leftie, so what? There’s no monopoly of idiots on either side of the aisle. You guys act like you’ve ‘discovered’ some great truth here, when you’re only confirming what a seven-year-old knows…

Oh, I think the Republicans have come pretty close to getting a monopoly on idiocy, as a matter of fact.

It’s a party that preaches hatred, though usually not as openly as Ann Coulter did the other day.

If you hate gay people, liberals, Mexicans, Muslims, blacks, atheists, pro-choicers, environmentalists, you-name-it, the Republican party will find a home for you. Congratulations…the Republicans have finally become the Big Tent party they wished they could be so long ago.

The trick so far has been how to balance those competing hatreds, and above all how to get the religious nuts to work hard and turn out the vote, since without them the Republicans are toast.

But really, it’s a false equivalency these days to claim that there are ‘nuts on both sides’. The Republicans have travelled very far down the road to extremism and embraced all sorts of nasty things along the way.

You may think of yourself as unique, or somehow above it all, but you support a very nasty, ugly movement that uses scapegoating and hatred to get its way.