Who Do You Hate? Some pols merely annoy us, others we truly despise What produces the difference?

The American Prospect ^ | May 16, 2014 | Paul Waldman

[punchamullah]

Might this apply to The Beast?

“To be young and conservative is to be without a heart; to be old and liberal is to be without a brain.” -Winston Churchill

[RichInOC]

First, given that Barack Obama, with all the Democrat Party to choose from, chose Joe Biden for his running mate, the left can just shut up about putting blithering idiots anywhere near the presidency.

Second, it’s a puzzlement to me how Harry Reid rose so high in the Democrat Party, and even more how he became one of the most prominent public faces of the Mormons, despite apparently being congenitally completely humorless and charmless.

[cynwoody]

So take a look at the potential GOP candidates for 2016. Which ones have the potential to really make you crazy with loathing? The only one who comes across as really sinister is Scott Walker, and that's because of things he did.

Yep. Vote for the guy with a track record!

A record of contempt for everything that Paul Waldman and the American Prospekt stand for, who forced his legislators to decamp for a foreign state, who caused the Democrat Party to expend millions to remove him! But in vain!

[Smokin' Joe]

I think the author's take on hatred is a sign that drug use is still alive and well out there. It is steeped in typical envy, projecting that on others, and coloured by the inability to understand that some of us do not hate people, but despise the deeds they do--and for that reason would never vote for them.

Yes, that includes Hillary Clinton.

We like others, not for their appearance, sometimes in spite of what they did in college, but ultimately for the deeds they do, their willingness to give their word and keep it, a behaviour which ultimately speaks volumes about their character. If we like the promises they made and kept, we'll vote for them.

It isn't rocket science. It has nothing to do with envying the doper masses in college or elsewhere while we spent our hours working and learning, especially when doing so was in pursuit of a passion for learning we loved. In fact, more often than not, the stoner crowd wasn't even on our radar, unless we had to move through them to get where we were going. Otherwise, it didn't matter if they were wasting their tuition and time, that was their choice, and they often did so at their peril.

Funny the author should project this envy and then cite it as a reason we might not like Hillary.

I'm not fond of anyone who would abandon my countrymen to their death, and then lie about what got them killed--and that is only one salient reason I find Mrs. Clinton unacceptable as a candidate for the highest office in the USA--but it is enough.

[broken_arrow1]

I am an equal-opportunity hater. Skin color doesn’t play a role, only their communist, socialist-inspired hatred of America and everything American.

Obama
Reid
Pelosi
Shumer
Clinton
Kerry
Sharpton
Cher

Did I miss anybody?

[Verginius Rufus]

Jane Fonda?

[MaggiesPitchfork]

I think there’s a difference between holding someone in contempt and hating them. Hate is more consuming and irrational, like the kind of hate you get on the left, where every other word is F-this and F-that because they smother rational thought with their emotions; remember the painting of Bush devouring a baby? Cripes, what morons. I fail to hate them, but they deserve my contempt, certainly. Even Dirty Harry Reid is contemptible, but I won’t waste my time hating him. I think he’s evil and deserves a good kick in the behind - yes, I’d like to give that kick, maybe with cleats on.