Why? Because it is an entirely different type of thinking and rhetoric, not just a different set of opinions. I could type for an hour trying to elucidate, but if you don't see the flawed and distorted premises and careless reasoning in their various bits of nonsense, all I'd get is sore fingers from typing.

When the serious conservative viewpoint was held and expounded by William F. Buckley, the debate was interesting and educational... but the current Tea Party line, and rabid, hate-filled accusations **spewed** by Palin, Bachmann, Louis Gohmert, Alan West and a dozen others are a travesty on what the basic conservative Republican party once was.

Ake.. I don't know if you read about.. or especially see videos.. of them just parroting falsehoods as they try to negate everything Obama does, but it is beyond appalling to someone like me who has followed politics since 1954 or so.