The comments on the thread are despicable, but you paint with too broad a brush. I reject the holy wat rhetoric of both sides.

MJ said;

Because mainstream Republicans are sick of these people and might fight to take their party back.

MJ, I agree, many good Republicans lost, and are losing their jobs due to right wing antics, and its sad, becasue I always felt we needed level headed Republicans to keep Liberals like me from going too far left.

Me and my wife were watching CNN and she asked me who Ed Rollins was. I told her he was a Republican Campaign consultant who always seems to offer good analysis and isn't full of the ugly shit you see so much of from many Republicans now a days.

Over the weekend I said the same about David Gerghan (sic)

About 5 years ago I was at breakfast with a friend, a Republican, and I told him I thought Bush/Cheney/DeLay and the right wing were going to destroy the Republican party for a generation.

I want to amend that, make it 2 Generations.

Huh???? My prayers and hopes and dreams are with Obama and his family. I lost my father recently and was with my Mom through a tough time of her own.

But the only one I see tying politics into a candidate's personal loss is you.

I'm sure you are right, that there are people on "the other side" saying nasty things right now. But they don't represent the majority of anything - except of nasty people.

Get over the us vs. them mentality. And say a prayer, if you care, for Obama and his family.

-Mark C. Still

Not all the comments on that thread are repugnant - some are respectful and appropriate. But many posters obviously hold such hatred in their hearts that they are unable to summon even a grain of compassion. It must be quite awful to be filled with venom. I pray for those filled with extreme anger - they suffer from a sickness deep in their souls.

That said, let's get out there and show them what it means to be a VALUES VOTER! Vote for PEACE. Vote for TOLERANCE. Vote for HEALTH CARE. Vote for EDUCATION. Vote OBAMA.

Thank you for listening.

This statement--

Inconceivable. That is because liberals just don't think that way. And a few of these rightwingers don't either. But the majority clearly does.

1) false outrage. "Inconceivable"? Honestly? Liberals "just don't think that way"? No, especially not about Cheney's heart problems. Not in a million f'ing years.

2) the construction of an overwhelmingly unconvincing straw man. Most rightwingers I know are very nice people outside of politics.

If you swap "left" words and "right" words and imagine your post being read in Mark Levin's high-pitched angry voice, it's surprisingly realistic.

It isn't that Liberals aren't that way MJ. It's that non-Republicans are that way.

The Republican Party has become the locus for a concentration of miscreants and angry, unethical swine who desperately need lots and lots of therapy to deal with their anger and fear issues.

There are lots of people who are not liberals who have the good judgement, sense of propriety and the decency not to laugh at something like the passing of Obama's grandmother like a bunch of insensitive adolscents. But the truth is, these days you simply won't find anyone who has those qualities in the Republican Party. It has become a cesspool as evidenced by the sort of comments and behavior you note and also as evidenced by the campaign of 100% filth they have resorted to this year.

Did you even read the comments on that thread? Most were sympathetic, a few speculated Obama timed the announcement for political reasons. I didn't read any that celebrated her demise. I think you protest too much, and yes, I have read Liberals say terrible things about Conservatives. Bill Maher openly hoped for Cheney to die.

Good news. Having read my criticism, Lucianne shut down the thread. Good. I give her credit. The hate keeps flowing at Fox and Free Republic.

I think it's a bit of a stretch to claim she shut it down due to your criticism alone.

some comments on the post you refer to represent indecent people hiding behind the anonymity of the internet.

It's regrettable.

I would posit that this kind of hatred is more innate in some people. They just wait for any opportunity to employ it.

I can imagine it. Then again, after this election, I want John McCain to crawl off quietly to some corner to die slowly and painfully of whatever cancer he's been concealing.

"Actually, these folks loved the death of JFK,Jr. too. I remember that"

Actually, similar right wing people celebrated JFK's assassination in 1963. While the rest of us were grieving during the funeral, some &^%^%# were partying!

After watching many months of 'McCain unleashed' and his trashy hate mongering campaign with his idiot soulmate one could only wish that the 'believe anything and know nothing' Republican base would retreat to their caves and never demean the word 'partiotism' again. They have no connection to and no concept of the principles on which this country was founded.

While we should be wary of hoping to find asymmetries in civilized behavior between our two major parties, I note that liberal or social-justice leaders seem to be the typical assassination victim, (attempt on Reagan failed) and Ayers couldn't touch McVeigh in results.

And the strongest speech the McCain campaign could find to hang on Obama was from Rev. Wright, sounding much like Rev. King, while their side has Rev. Hagee, and sneering-at-death Rush Limbaugh, not to mention insane Rep. Bachman.

MJ, the same kind of bad behavior exhibited here is evident in the Yes on 8 campaign writing a ban on civil same-sex marriage into the state constitution. You might say a word or two about that. The Yes campaign is using ancient blood libel vs homosexuals that they are going to get/recruit your children!

Strange - my first thought when I heard this was "tragic timing - if her grandson is elected tomorrow, she'd want to be here to see it."

And to think they feigned disgust when Michelle Obama said something about people being mean.

The nasty posts are still on the Fox site and other GOP sites.

It's mean. It's downright barbarous, if you ask me.