I learned today that I cannot tolerate speaking to Republicans.

[rzemanfl]

I tried to work the local polling station for a Dem candidate for Congress. Approaching these smug, self-centered assholes as they exited their gas-guzzling $50,000 cars made me nearly physically ill. I was almost happy when they were yaking on their cell phones as they walked to the polling place-I wouldn't have to try to speak to them. I'd rather talk to zoo animals or inanimate objects than these useless consumers of more than their fair share. Sorry, I just can't do it.

[byronius]

1. My hackles go up -- I get madder and madder -- arrrrRRRRRGH!

I know exactly what you mean.

[RethugAssKicker]

2. That's why I want 2 countries.... There is no hope for these

smug, stupid assholes...

I don't want to persuade or convince them of anything... We need a split. Don't know how to do it, but that's how I feel!

[Warpy]

4. They feel the same way about us, you know

since they've been given permission to hate us.

They'd love to see us robbed of everything we own and herded into forced labor camps where we could be slaughtered at will.

Remind you of anyone?

[Mistwell]

7. Exact;ly

We are not the party of intolerance. DemocraticUnderground doesn't stand for people who are intolerate. The original poster however is being pretty clear that he or she is just plain old intolerate. That creeps me out. And if you think the other side is intolerate that's even more reason to not match that nasty emotion. You don't mimic the reactions of the thing you don't respect. You act better than them.

[rzemanfl]

13. But I spell better than you. I'm not saying my feelings are right.

I can't change the way I feel.

[Glorfindel]

6. Splitting would be EASY... WE get Hawaii, California,

Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, DC, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, and maybe Iowa. THEY get all the rest. The split would probably be less traumatic than the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. I'd have to leave Mississippi, but I think I could bear it somehow. O8)

[oasis]

19. Each time you long for Mississippi, just pull out a photo of Haley Barbour.

:puke:

[Glorfindel]

20. Or worse, a recording of his voice...*gag*

n/t

[smitty]

3. They're not worthy of you.

[Mistwell]

5. Woah Now

Don't dehumanize people just because they think different than us. They are still people, and hate isn't my motive when I vote Democratic.

I mean, think of what you would have sounded like - 60 years ago, in Austria, pointing out someone who appeared to be overly consumeristic and saying you wouldn't want to speak with them and you would rather speak with zoo animals, and being near them makes you physcially ill. Don't go down that route. We can disagree with people in the other party without hating them. Our message is a good one, and some day some of those people will figure that out as well, or their kids will.

[Auntie Bush]

9. That's true but too many of them will never get enlightened!

Where would they go? Iraq? :shrug: They could spread some Christianity and freedom over there.

[demwing]

10. But their kids might

I come from a red family, deep in the heart of Indiana.

Individuals may not change, but families often grow out of their political bonds.

[Doctor_J]

12. Today's GOP are barely human

sorry. And making noce with them is how we got into this mess.

[rzemanfl]

15. I wasn't advocating, just observing. That's the way I feel. n/t

[EndElectoral]

8. Amen...They are a different species!

[Auntie Bush]

11. A group of us are car pooling to an event 2 hours away Wed.

For the first time in my life... I asked far a ride with the Democratic rather than the Republican even though the Republican lived much closer. I couldn't stand to drive two hours with Republican chatter. I wanted to rejoice or cry with a fellow Democrat.

[graywarrior]

14. They seem worse in Florida, don't they?

I steer clear of them like they have the plague.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

16. They cry, they bleed,

they fear, they sleep, they love, they need, they work, they play, they worry, they question, they die.

They are human beings. Your commonalities are far more important than your differences. In this life you will never agree with everyone on everything.

They aren't a sub species. Your post truly disturbs me.

[rzemanfl]

17. They fear anything they are told to fear, they sleep with their

twenty-something mistresses, congressional pages or male prostitutes, they "need" more shit than they can use, they love themselves more than anyone else, they play golf, they worry about getting indicted, they question nothing unless it gets in the way of what they want and they let other people die for them.

Other than that, they are swell folks.

I did not call them a sub-species, someone else did that.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

18. Oh come on

sure there are some who meet that definition. But they are also the guy who puts in your cable, the nurse at the doctor's office, your kid's teacher.

People are people. Ideals are important, but when you put up this kind of barrier you are closing off a whole lot of world from yourself.

My boss in a Republican. Competent, compassionate. My father was a Republican. He was a good man. The two medics who picked up my mom after her stroke were Republicans. They spend their lives helping people.


I've known some Democrats who would curl your toes when it came to racism and greed.

It just isn't that black and white, and that is something we need to remember if we are going to work on the problems in this country after winning (God willing) the House back.

[rzemanfl]

21. Those Republicans are nothing like the people I saw today.

I have six years of anger to get over. Don't expect miracles.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

22. Okay, I am seeing where you are coming from

evidently the folks you saw today reinforced the image you have in your mind about our dear Republican leaders, who I readily admit, have some...um...ethics issues?

And I can understand your distaste. I can see now that you really aren't painting half the population of the country with that same broad brush.

Peace.

[rzemanfl]

23. 79% of Republicans approve of the War in Iraq. Still feeling

warm and fuzzy about them? (This was just on MSNBC.)

[TallahasseeGrannie]

24. I don't feel warm and fuzzy about anybody

I'm too pragmatic. People are people. Being a Democrat and "disaprroving of the war" doesn't make you a saint.

[Rocknrule]

25. Whenever I see Carter Pewterschmit on Family Guy I think of Republicans

[Skittles]

26. THANK YOU

I am so tired of DUers who say republicans suck except for MY republicans - THEY ALL F***ING STINK

[L0oniX]

27. I charge repukes more for my services ...f*ck them ass carrots