Originally posted by: eskimospy
Originally posted by: winnar111
Originally posted by: eskimospy
Originally posted by: winnar111
Originally posted by: eskimospy
Let me walk you though this boy genius, the topic wasn't if Kerry lost or not, it's if Americans thought that he was insufficiently patriotic and that's why he lost. I don't really expect an answer from you on the subject by the way. I was just trying to show you how retarded the statement you said was. I guess you can lead a horse to water, eh?
No, the topic was why Democrats are forced to prove their patriotism.
Well that makes your previous responses at best a poorly correlated smear attempt and at worst completely nonsensical. You're not very good at this are you?
No, that makes my response the proper answer to the question:
Democrats are forced to prove their patriotism because they associate with people who are considered unpatriotic or engage in conduct that is considered unpatriotic. Republicans do not.
Kerry's electoral results have nothing to do with this topic unless you can show some causative link between the two... which you haven't bothered to do. As far as having to prove your patriotism because of some (incredibly) loose association with people you consider 'unpatriotic', that's bullshit.
The real reason (as Rainsford put so well) is that the Republican form of patriotism is like a small child's. To be honest though, I think the Republican brand is more like a dog. You can never doubt your dog loves you because it has complete, slavish devotion to you. It's the kind of devotion that you would find pathetic or creepy in an adult, but in a dog it's endearing. The fact that Democrats love their country, but are willing to speak up when it messes up is an adult way to love something. This less than complete drooling jingoism when compared to Republicans is what causes it, not some sort of ridiculous other association.
If you take a minute or two and look back, you'll see Republicans have been attempting to paint Democrats as insufficiently patriotic for at least 60 years. Now either the Democrats have consistently nominated America haters for more then half a century, or it's a standard act from the Republican playbook. Which do you think is more likely?