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Heh, their brains would explode. And you're exactly right. That's why it's so laughable seeing Jeb talk about how this needs to end. The GOP would never want to be treated the way they've treated Obama.
1) The GOP is treated as bad as Obama...by Democrats. Harry Reid is the least civil politician in the US government, and between he, the deceased Teddy Kennedy, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, and Nancy Pelosi's treatment of their GOP colleagues in the press, the only GOP politician I can think of that comes close is Ted Stevens, and he's long gone.
2) The GOP is treated FAR WORSE by the media, and always have been. Nobody is held to a lower ethical, moral and professional standard in office than Obama and both Clintons. The non-Fox NEws media (like 95% of all media) is so glaringly Democrat partisan it's revolting, and they all revel in the different standards they have for the two parties.
So seriously...just stop it. You're either totally naive or stricken blind by partisan hysteria, neither of which bodes for you as an individual.
There is a lack of civility of late. On the subject of politics, in particular, people have become so polemic and so partisan that there is no place for argument anymore. The opposing party has become "the enemy." One cannot even agree to disagree for there is no tolerance for opposing views. It is a sad state of affairs when people can no longer even talk to each other without invective.
Still, this is nothing new in the history of politics. One of Octavian’s first acts as Triumvir was to add his friend and mentor Cicero to the proscription lists to appease Antony, who had Cicero’s head and hands mounted on the Senate Rostra in the Forum Romanum. (A high price to pay for his Philippics!) And, in our own history, Alexander Hamilton might have lived to be President had he been more civil in his dealings with Aaron Burr.
We have seen the ugliness of the Republican Party over a couple of decades starting with the millions of dollars spent in a seven year boondoggle only to find a stained dress to the past seven years with President Obama. I said in an earlier thread that I would not be surprised to see a Republican president try to call for a "new civility" because they would never want to endure what Obama has.
It's like Jeb Bush is reading these threads. Get a load of this:
“But we're at an ugly time, politically. And one of the, I think, next challenges for the next president is to restore some civility in our political process. But in the interim, it's ugly, for sure."
Unbelievable. The GOP goes to Defcon 5 in the ugliness level and a Republican presidential candidate suddenly thinks there should be civility. I don't see it happening. They should endure the same or more.
It's amazing to me that a man running for president who used his position as governor to stop a vote count in Florida in order to get his own brother elected president wants to call for civility after the past seven years of GOP ugliness. Good luck with that.
Revise history much? Every subsequent study even by lefty tools like the New York Times showed that the Bush election was legitimate. If you're still beating this long dead, and reduced to its components horse then you are simply incapable of living in the real world.
As far as your laughable assertion that a lack of civility lies solely at the feet of the Republicans you are deaf as well as blind.
I love how this thread is how the other side is the one that's uncivil, too funny. That's why Jeb Bush's dream of a "new civility" is just that, a dream.
Heh, their brains would explode. And you're exactly right. That's why it's so laughable seeing Jeb talk about how this needs to end. The GOP would never want to be treated the way they've treated Obama.
your partisanship is showing big time here. democrats are no better than republicans in this day in age when it comes to a lack of civility. so before you jump all over the republicans, take a good look at what the democrats have done in the last thirty years, and be disgusted by that as well. if you cant do that, then your hypocrisy is set in stone.
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