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Pat Buchanan explains why Democrats abandon civility more than Republicans
The Daily Caller ^ | August 17, 2012 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 08/17/2012 6:37:34 AM PDT by Rufus2007

During Sean Hannity’s radio show Thursday, he and commentator Pat Buchanan discussed the hostility they have both experienced from liberals during past Democratic National Conventions. And Buchanan concluded that some activists on the left are so vicious about politics because politics is all they have in their lives.

Accusations about a lack of civility are nothing new, and they are often flung back and forth between the left and the right. But Buchanan, the author of “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?” sees a distinct difference between how the two sides handle it.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; patbuchanan; teaparty
There's a lot of truth in that statement. When politics takes front-and-center over a high power or any other sense of self-worth, the emotions get the best of them.
1 posted on 08/17/2012 6:37:38 AM PDT by Rufus2007
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To: Rufus2007

“And Buchanan concluded that some activists on the left are so vicious about politics because politics is all they have in their lives. “

Not to mention that a lack of morals and ethics that are the mainstay of the left leave them with a void in their lifes that they fill with the hate they have in their hearts.


2 posted on 08/17/2012 6:42:16 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Rufus2007

Still, whatever their excuse ~ and Pat’s always making one for them (still seeking votes) ~ Democrats are just scum and I’m more than willing to tell them that. The Democrats, the political RINOs, the leftwingtards, the commies, abortion rights crowd ~ the whole gang are just scum!


3 posted on 08/17/2012 6:43:07 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Rufus2007

Today’s Democrats are all communists. Leftists and communists deny God, natural law, the right to life, and the right to property. Communists have no morals and do not live by laws — they live by terror, fear and intimidation.

Buchanan was afraid to tell the plain unvarnished truth.


4 posted on 08/17/2012 6:45:49 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Rufus2007

The left is made up of the stupid, brainwashed, lazy, greedy, and evil. Those numbers are growing due to no real education, drugs (all types), and not knowing Jesus. It is that simple.


5 posted on 08/17/2012 6:46:45 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Corollary - Electing the same person over and over and expecting a different outcome is insanity)
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To: Rufus2007

Democrats are passionate about government because that’s where the money is. Looting the public treasury is safer and way more profitable than robbing banks or grocery stores. The Democrats aren’t misguided ideologues, they’re just thieves.


6 posted on 08/17/2012 6:47:03 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

To Democrats, Government is their religion.


7 posted on 08/17/2012 6:49:15 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Rufus2007

They eventually resort to violence. Family Research Center shooter-wannabe was going to kill a lot of people. He thought the 15 Chick-fila SANDWICHES WOULD GET HIM PAST THE GUARDS AND INTO THE BUILDING.

God was truly watching over them.........


8 posted on 08/17/2012 7:04:18 AM PDT by Red Badger (Anyone who thinks wisdom comes with age is either too young or too stupid to know the difference....)
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To: dfwgator

Government is their religion,Satan is their god, taxes are their tithes and abortion is their sacrament............


9 posted on 08/17/2012 7:07:18 AM PDT by Red Badger (Anyone who thinks wisdom comes with age is either too young or too stupid to know the difference....)
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To: dfwgator

I agree that to many Dems the Government is their religion. Same goes for the enviro-wackos. I’ve always said these people have replaced religion with Global Warming.


10 posted on 08/17/2012 7:19:35 AM PDT by clarissaexplainsitall
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To: Rufus2007

I think it’s simpler than that. Liberals lie.

All Democrats are not liberals and all Democrats are not vicious, but the liberals among them, every single one, man or woman, lie.

They will lie about anything to make a point, and they’ll repeat the lie in spite of being shown factual counter evidence that disproves the lie. That’s really all you need to know.

From a willingness to blatantly lie to make a point, all else follows, including the willingness to be vicious among some of them. They start as vicious liars, and some progress to outright viciousness overall. (Steel spikes in trees that end up injuring sawmill operators come to mind, as does the simple keying of cars if they carry conservative bumper stickers in the wrong locales.)

They lie about constitutional intent, and make up arguments out of whole cloth. A good liberal will look you right in the eye and tell you something you know to be untrue if it makes his point.

Again, not all Democrats are liberals. Many just vote Democrat reflexively and lately have had the misfortune to be represented almost solely by the liberals among them.

And this is exactly why I think the coming election could be a landslide. Obama/Pelosi/Reid’s lies are finally catching up with them, and the non-liberal Democrat doesn’t like being lied to any more than the rest of us. Many of them are about to desert their party in the coming election, because it’s now about to be fought on facts, due in no small part to Romney’s decision to choose Paul Ryan as his running mate.

Another example of liberal lying and the reaction to it: Obama stated that he didn’t think anyone would call him a divider. The RCP post discussing that already has over 2000 comments, with nearly every one of them providing factual evidence that at least one American considers him a divider, but he would make the same statement again regardless of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.


11 posted on 08/17/2012 7:41:46 AM PDT by Norseman (Defund the Left-Completely!)
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To: cindy-true-supporter
“For...many Democrats, politics is the be-all and end-all of this life,” Buchanan said. “It’s the most important thing in their lives. And to lose that is to lose salvation, virtually....[their] whole life is built around the political system in this world...

And that's why they call it "godless communism", folks. They actually believe the same kids who bullied everyone in high school can run the nation or the world and make it fair for them.

Pitiable.

12 posted on 08/17/2012 7:45:56 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. -- George Bernard Shaw)
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To: Rufus2007
And Buchanan concluded that some activists on the left are so vicious about politics because politics is all they have in their lives.

Eric Hofer said as much in his book "The True Believer " many decades ago
13 posted on 08/17/2012 7:53:22 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: Red Badger

As someone around here has posted before -

“Liberalism” is the political expression of the religion of Humanism,
which started with the lie “you will be as gods, knowing good and evil”,
and will only end when its author is consigned to the pit forever.


14 posted on 08/17/2012 8:05:12 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working fors)
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To: Norseman

Obama Lies.

http://obamalies.net/list-of-lies

I can’t believe there are only three (long-winded) lies listed for the 4th year. Did the guy outsource this site?


15 posted on 08/17/2012 8:14:36 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Absolutely correct.


16 posted on 08/17/2012 8:19:51 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Rufus2007

This was a truism going way back, best explained as:

“When Republicans lose an election, they go back to work, working less, earning more money, and having more fun. When Democrats lose an election, they eat in soup kitchens, drink cheap liquor, complain about the unfairness inherent in ‘the system’, and renew their sense of bitter hate at those whose lives are better than theirs.”


17 posted on 08/17/2012 10:53:25 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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