As if there were any doubt as to the intolerance, insensitivity, and juvenile sensibilities of some Republicans, a snapshot of yesterday's action from the Republican National Connvention should have been enough to remove any uncertainty.
Just a quick note to the Republican guys picking delegates...you might want to at least give the impression that your party appeals to the many others from different racial and cultural backgrounds.
It’s shameful the Republicans couldn’t rely or boast upon their record of accomplishment and instead, had to resort to the primal manipulation of fear and distorted lies.
I can't imagine a more juvenile gesture than those delegates who were wearing Band-Aids with purple hearts on their cheeks. I wonder how many of those maroons ever saw combat in service of their country? And yet they have no qualms about insulting and demeaning the service of a man who served his country ably and well- never mind the fact that he was wounded in the course of that service. Yet these self- appointed, armchair generals are willing to pass judgement on John Kerry, when their own service likely involved nothing riskier than a snowball fight with their children.
Memo to those of you at the RNC: will you PLEASE stop talking about the war in Iraq as if it is a natural outgrowth from 9.11? No one has yet, in almost three years, been able to establish a connection between Saddam Hussein's regime and 9.11- so stop justifying the war on the basis of 9.11. Or are y'all really so willingly and willfully out of touch with the truth?
I realize that a good deal of this crap is part and parcel of the convention mob hysteria that turns otherwise reasonable adults into frothing, mindless drones, but let's get a grip, shall we? Or do you want America to see you as intolerant, insensitive, clueless fools?
