I've been a liberal democrat my entire 39 years, and have pretty much always discounted, dismissed and disrespected anything any republican said. Classic knee-jerk liberal, that's me.
I used to think Bob Dole was okay, until he came out in support of the swift boaters against John Kerry. He said something completely idiotic about how so many people wouldn't be coming out against Kerry if there weren't some germ of truth in it. How pathetic was that.
As for McCain ...
don't get me started. I never really liked him but ten years ago I believed that he was reasonable. I believed it up until the 2004 election, and then the photo of him holding up birthday cake with Bush while Americans were dying in the Gulf Coast just ended it entirely. There are no good elected republicans. And there never have been.
But does that mean there are no good conservatives? I want to know if I'm missing half of the dialogue here. Who do you go to read when you want to see the other half is thinking? Are there any conservative opinions you respect? Are any of them honest? Who represents the best and brightest and most eloquent of the right wing? Or are they all really lying greedy cheaters, as I suspect? I really would like to know who to read on the other side of the table, so please help me out if you can. Thanks.