The problem I have with the "conservatives"(haha) here isn't one about differences of opinion... That I can live with...
What bothers me is that they don't deal too well with policy debates and spend an inordinate amount of their time and energy parroting personal smear campaigns of the Republican Party...
This entire thing about trying to pigeon hole Obama as a Muslim plays to peoples fears from 9/11 on one hand and is not true on the other... Where is the policy discussion??? There isn't one...
Then on another thread Obama is being attacked because he bought property from a criminal... Where is the policy discussion??? There isn't one...
This goes well beyond right of free thought and speech... I challenged Old Guy (remember him???) a couple years ago to name one policy issue that he thought he could defend Bush on and he choose FEMA and Katrina... Fine, the thread went about 800 posts and was a discussion/debate on an, ahhhhhh, friggin' issue...
That was fine...
But these personal smear campaign against Obama are nothing more than that... The are not discussions... They are base... They are petty... And they really just demonstrate that the folks who camp out at the smear well don't really have any policy issues that they want to discuss...
Fine... That is their right... It's also my right to call them on it...