Kathleen Parker gets introduced to the ugly underbelly of the Republican party after Palin article

[gatorboy]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/30/AR2008093002315.html

Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should "off" myself.

Those are a few nuggets randomly selected from thousands of e-mails written in response to my column suggesting that Sarah Palin is out of her league and should step down.

Who says public discourse hasn't deteriorated?

The fierce reaction to my column has been both bracing and enlightening. After 20 years of column writing, I'm familiar with angry mail. But the past few days have produced responses of a different order. Not just angry, but vicious and threatening.

[BeyondGeography]

1. No sympathy here

None.

[galaxy21]

3. They turned on Bill O'reilly as well

After he said the blame was on Bush rather Clinton for the economic crisis.

[Cosmocat]

19. These scumbags turn a good nickle ...

feeding hatred to haters.

Put in a few minutes of the tail end of "the Factor" early thing morning after I put one of the girls down and couldn't sleep.

Doing his usual e-mail thing at the end, and was working pitching his new piece of propoganda and said how people could help out the troops by BUYING a book and having it "sent over there." Then just happens to read an e-mnail from someone who bought something like 40 and sent them to the troops, to which O'Reilly said "great patriot, there"

These people make GOOD Fin money juicing up these lunatics - only "justice" in the world would be them getting theirs from the animals they feed.

[AlCzervik]

2. Welcome to our world Kathleen, how does it feel?

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Those e-mailers are your conservative friends.

Surprised, Kathleen? You shouldn't be.

[Shakespeare]

5. Smerconish had the same eye-opening experience after he said he MIGHT vote for Obama.

Hopefully, the few sane minds left in that party will see it for what it is, and run like hell.

[Wetzelbill]

6. That's what happens when 90 percent of your party consists of crazed

brainwashed morons, Kathy. Now you know why the rest of us are so horrified for our country.

[Overseas]

7. K&R to watch a Republican getting a taste of their team's campaign style.

Glad to see another right winger getting a taste of the hatred engendered by the New Republican approach to winning elections by hyping and pushing a culture war instead of focusing on the issues.

[sharp_stick]

8. They seem so amazed when this happens

Those of us on the left not so much. I predicted the hatemail parade that was going to cross her desk the second I read her first column. These people do not allow dissent, in any way from their fundie mission.

That is why I hate fundies, all fundies, even the "good ones".

[AspenRose]

9. Wake-up-call time is here, Kathleen.

And no, you're not dreaming. Can't hit the buzzer and go back to sleep.

[Supersedeas]

10. Dr. Frankenstein, YOUR patient has returned

[firedupdem]

11. haha! I thought they all love Jesus so much? I love God and

I know he doesn't teach me to hate or wish death on anyone! Get used to it sister...we've been dealing with it for 8 years!

[calimary]

12. See, Kathleen?

This is YOUR team, my girl. This is how YOUR crowd responds. Howdya like it?

[blue-kite]

13. I'm tempted to say... whomever is left can they turn off the lights when they're leaving.

[KayLaw]

14. Big surprise.

And, yes, today's conservative should not think for himself/herself, but march in step and just say Ditto.

[VolcanoJen]

15. So, Kathleen Parker learns the hard way.

We, of course, have known forever that wingnuts are despicable scum who will turn on you the moment you go against Wingnut Dogma.

Poor, poor Kathleen. I do have to give her mad props though for printing this column today. Expose them all, I say. Get all of their shit out in the open.

[alcibiades_mystery]

16. It's her Party...she can cry if she wants to

:rofl:

[ailsagirl]

22. LOL !!

[Morning Dew]

17. I hear you, Dixie Chicks

lol

check her column from August 23, 2006


http://tinyurl.com/3zfeqd

[VolcanoJen]

18. That part made me gag!!!!!!

Where was Kathleen in 2003??????

[SuperTrouper]

20. LOL!! McCain implied that she is a "Washington cocktail" tramp acting as a "Conservative"

He said Good luck to you (Kathleen) :rofl:

[TankLV]

21. Hey Katheleen: TOUGH SHIT!

You're still a REPUKE - after these past 8-12 YEARS?!?!

REALLY?!?!

And you expect us to have sympathy for YOU?!?!

EAT REPUKE SHIT AND DIE!

Sorry, you maid your repuke CRAP bed - and crapped in it - and OUR beds - now you get to lie in it!!!

I have about 330 million OTHER people ahead of you on my sympathy list...

[SurfingAtWork]

23. Oh my. Someone from the "pro-life" party, suggests that her mother should have aborted her.

Nice... WWJA (Who Would Jesus Abort), I suppose.

[LynneSin]

24. Kathleen perhaps you should meet David Brock, former hit-man for the right-wing media

and now the head of Media Matters.


Perhaps Brock can show her the light!

[Poseidan]

25. And who says we're all Americans?

Damn the Confederates and their ongoing civil war. They've been fucking up this country for 150 years now. It is a shame our forefathers did not consider the possibility of a political civil-war. They could have created institutions ensuring it would never occur.

[eridani]

26. What goes around comes around

Why is she shocked at this?

[David Zephyr]

27. Richard Viguerie, Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, Roger Ailes took America to this.

Hitler would be proud of them all.

[LiberalAndProud]

28. I'm not surprised. Democrats have been the target of the

haters for a very long time. It's not shocking that the hatred will now be directed at anyone who expresses dissent.

[Atman]

29. I hate her and have railed against her columns in the past.

But I don't really hate her. I disagree with here.

Except for this article. I agree 100%. It's a brilliant and thought-provoking article.

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