Why would I have to resort to calling you those things, Bulldog? I can simply point out how misguided and naive what you believed in really was. I think we both know that hurts more than base insults.
I doubt that your definition of misguided is much more than that it doesn't align with the right wing scheme de jure. The right wing is called the party of stupid by many, including it's own politicians, for a reason, and I'm no longer shocked when you use lies and just down right crazy stuff to convince your followers of your latest ima
A teabagger is also the name chosen by the teaparty which has been controlled by the crazy extreme right wing since shortly after it's inception. I didn't give them that name...they chose it, and were quite proud of it until someone told them what it meant in the past. They proudly proclaimed that's what they are, and I intend to honor that choice every time it is appropriate. My overall point was that I thoroughly enjoy a discussion of the facts, and will respond in the manner that I am addressed. You want to discuss facts, great. You want to start out with insults and flame me? You better be ready to receive at least as much as you give. I usually enjoy one as well as the other, but constant childish back and forth gets tedious after a while.
Come on...at least have the courage to admit when you are insulting people, Bulldog! You know that the term "teabagger" was coined by the left to mock a newly formed conservative group that grew out of opposition to "Big Government".
When I call someone a "treehugger" it isn't because that's what they decided to call themselves...it's a derogatory term and used to poke fun at others.
Sure, I know they don't like it, but the difference is that those goobers did actually chose the name, and were quite proud of it until they received ridicule for it. Here is an official video put out by the tea party.
If I made a choice that bad, I would be embarrassed too.
When I hear and have heard for years about how all liberals are lazy bums who just lay on the couch, smoke dope, hate the country, want to rape your kids and turn them gay, etc. etc. I find it a little hard to feel the sensitivity the right wants us to have in this one situation. I suggest you try to move your party back toward sanity and reason, and the name calling will probably slow down. Believe me, I listened to insults from the right for years before I decided to join in. It seems to be the only way to communicate with them.
You know what I always find amusing, Bulldog? The rationale that people like you always seem to come up with for saying some really vile things about conservatives. Yours is that it's an attempt by you to "communicate" with them? Really? I mean
REALLY?
My problem with liberals isn't that they are lazy, smoke dope, are child molesters or want to turn everyone gay! My problem with liberals is their naive policies that are rooted in theories brought forth from the cloistered womb of academia...policies that quite simply don't work in the real world.
What I see happening time and time again is that when "progressives" get a chance to implement their theories...it turns into a total cluster ****...at which point your response predictably becomes that it
SHOULD have worked and didn't only because evil conservatives didn't support it as they should have! It's at that point that you become anything but "sensitive", Bulldog! It's at that point where you become downright nasty.
I started to respond last night, but decided your "not screaming" post deserved more than a quick dismissal. It is a fact that when plans are not fully implemented, they will have less than intended results. A reasonable person can't say that isn't true. I'm not sure what kind of business you are in, but why don't you try starting a project and then just arbitrarily cut necessary parts of that project and then see how successful that project is. Of course the right never just says they have different ideas of how to help the country. They always go for the idea that liberal plans are an effort to destroy the country. You never say you just don't want programs to help the poor. You say the left hates the rich, or the whites, or the country, and everything is portrayed as the end of the world. You never come up with your own ideas. You just pound on what you claim is a concentrated effort to usher in communism, socialism, or what ever ism you think of that day. A reasonable person or party knows that is just a bunch of crap. You proudly present crazy statements by people like Cruz, or Gohmert, or Palin, claiming they represent your ideals, and expect sane people to take you seriously. On top of all that, the right, for years has claimed everyone who doesn't agree with them are traitors, and you expect us to calmly listen to all this ridiculous insulting stuff and not respond in kind? If you are so offended by nasty responses, I suggest you grow up and recognize that nasty has become the "ONLY" way the right expresses themselves.