[Peach]

The Democrats aren't just angry. They are insane.

[camle]

sounds like hate speech to me. isn't there a law?

[G.Mason]

"Even while distancing himself from the rest of the dwarves over Iraq, Sen. Joe Lieberman calls George Bush a "cowboy,"......."

You have to like that one!

[ClearCase_guy]

If the 2004 election turns out well, I think the Democrats will lose the ability to declare that they are the rightful rulers and that the people actually prefer their policies.

Which brings up an interesting thought. I can't remember the last time a Democrat presented an actual plan to do something. They seem to have two tactics: attack Republicans, and attack the elections that put Republicans in power. I think they might need to rethink this approach (if Hillary lets them).

[Samwise]

When Democrats assert that the Republicans will do anything to win, their complaint is relevant only in terms of what psychologists call "projection," finding your own faults in others.

Yep! I realized during the Clinton administration that if you wanted to figure out what the Demoncrats were up to, you just had to listen to what they were accusing the Republicans of doing.

[Tank-FL]

Things are really not that different today, Below is a quote from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 1885.

"Hamer was a life-long Democrat, while my father was a Whig. They had a warm discussion, which finally became angry--over some act of President Jackson, the removal of the deposit of public moneys, I think--after which they never spoke until after my appointment. I know both of them felt badly over this estrangement, and would have been glad at any time to come to a reconciliation; but neither would make the advance. Under these circumstances my father would not write to Hamer for the appointment, but he wrote to Thomas Morris, United States Senator from Ohio, informing him that there was a vacancy at West Point from our district, and that he would be glad if I could be appointed to fill it. This letter, I presume, was turned over to Mr. Hamer, and, as there was no other applicant, he cheerfully appointed me. This healed the breach between the two, never after reopened."

[The Clemson Tiger]

You know, they keep bringing up this mantra of 'Democratic anger' over the 2000 election.

However, one of the great under-reported stories of the 2002 midterms was Republican anger over the more correctly characterized Democratic attempt to steal the 2000 election. And we all know how those turned out.

I know that was in my mind every foot of the way from my house to the polls in 2002, and it probably will be again in 2004.

[AnnaC]

It never fails. What will they pull out of their democratic hat next? I question do the democrats really care about America as a whole. They are a disgrace to American civilization. In 1999 our economy started to slump and most businesses know this. Other leading foreign countries had realized this. 9/11 was not Bush's administrations fault but goes back to changes brought by Janet Reno's handling of foreign intelligence. As far as the war with Iraq ...... Bush knew before hand he had everything to lose (as far as the democratic and American opinion) and nothing on his political future to gain. He accepted this responsibility with it's repercussions. Democrats have wider track of mishandled money than they are willing to admit. It's the same old song with them just different names that's all.

[Bigun]

Why is the left so angry?

Because they are LOOSING on every front and CANNOT stand it!

To quote Cleta Mitchell, "If we don't win... we dont eat!"

[Alissa]

Now, Howard Dean has seen elections overturned. In the 2000 elections in his home state, voters who pulled a Republican lever found their votes being counted for Democratic control of the U.S. Senate. Democrats did not consult the voters when they persuaded Republican Jim Jeffords to give them the crucial 51st vote in organizing the Senate.

Great point!!!!!

[MissAmericanPie]

Projection is right. Demoncrats have done their level best for decades to destroy every facet of this government. Vote fraud on every level, from phoney votes to illegal vote provided by their illegal invasion.

Voting districts that wind like a snake across the voting map, is what they call legitmate representation of minorities.

Selling our nation out to every undermining treaty that comes down the pike from KOYTO to NAFTA, and kissing up to every America hating "ally" that wants to stick a knife in our backs.

[crz]

There is soon to be a three party system. One will be the Puritan Conservative Republican party where they will not tolerate any other view outside their own. Then there will be the Republican party which will allow views expressed openly and consider all. Then there is/will be, the Nationalist Socialist Democratic Party which is already in being and run by the Clintons.

[sauropod]

Who cares? I'm still mad about them trying to steal the election in 2000 and what His Slickness was able to get away with in 1998. He should be in prison.

[sauropod]

"it is simply not true that the Supreme Court let Mr. Bush steal it."

This needs to be said over and over again.

IIRC it was a Florida 'Rat State Assemblyman that was found with a "Votamatic" in the trunk of his car.

Think his name was Schlossburg or something like that.

[leprechaun9]

The answer is very simple: The essence of the DEMOCRAP Party is practicing the Politics of FEAR, DIVISION, and HATRED!

Remember back in 1993 when little Dickie Gephardt went to the elementary school in Virgina and said if the Republican Budget passes, then the children at that school would no longer have lunches provided. What he didn't count on was the next day the Principal of that school told the press that their lunch program was not funded by the Federal Government and the disposition of the Budget would have no impact on their program. ANOTHER LIE by DICKIE!

[Publius6961]

It has developed over a generation.
They are literally foaming at the mouth because:

The progressives lied and bribed their way into power.
The power corrupts and in their case permanently.
They instituted doublespeak successfully: taxes are "investments" and as long as they mean well, the tax well is bottomless.

They started losing elections.
Their corrupt lying approach became too ridiculous to be believable.
They lost the 2000 election and rage set in because:

They assumed that the voters forgot this is a representative Constitutional Republic, not a democracy.
They assumed that the transformation was comple and permanent.

Their rage is evident daily.
Here in California it is "assumed" that their philosophy reigns because the predominant bumper stickers are all green, "touchie-feelie" and "progressive". A bigger lie could not have been invented by Orwell.

Conservatives and moderates dare not enjoy the simple act of using bumper stickers because their vehicles will certainly be damaged and vandalized.
The left assumes no one is aware of this. I certainly am. And I suspect millions of other also, they just express their belief at the ballot box.

Discussing issues with these people is an excercise in frustration. Anger is just below the surface, no exceptions.

And finally the personal anger that they project 24/7 is a deep and constant hatred for Bush and all his cabinet. It is freaky, unhealthy and pathological.
The only real surprise for me is that they don't destructively act on that anger more often than they do.

[Snuffington]

Even Richard Nixon persuaded reporter Earl Mazo to abandon the story that John F. Kennedy's forces stole the 1960 election in Illinois and Texas.

Well, yeah. And for a very obvious reason. Once the parties start giving tacit approval to "conspiracy to disenfranchise" stories, and aim them at their political rivals, it quickly erodes confidence in our elections, and ultimately our entire system of government. Nixon may have been a crook, but he wasn't a nihilist or a demogogue.

That's the real source of Democratic anger. Their leadership has now adopted tactics that cause their base to fear they have been disenfranchised. The fact that it isn't true doesn't matter. Politics in democracies is largely emotional. A small minority ever sees through the party rhetoric to grasp truths that run counter to it. If Howard Dean says its so, no Wall Street Journal article to the contrary will have much impact.

[Gritty]

BTTT

[RoseofTexas]

The reason they are spewing their vemon is plain to see! They are getting away with it and the pubbies are in the closet hiding!! The RATS always knew the pubs are spineless, look what they did to Estrada! Let's just call the pubs...CLOSET REPUBLICANS! All talk and NO BITE!

[mtbopfuyn]

"Not only in California but across the nation, he continued, "the right wing of the Republican Party" has conspired "to remove democracy from America."

Is that Hillary I see with her hand up the backside of Dean's suit and moving his mouth?