I HATE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S GUTS!

[Stainless]

My visceral hatred has cost me friends, neighbors and family. I just plain refuse to listen to their pathetic, ignorant excuses any longer.

[gopiscrap]

1. SAME HERE!!!!

[louis-t]

2. The repugs in my office are strangely silent.

Suddenly, they don't want to talk about politics. These are people that would scream at me about their hatred of Obama if I left my door open.

[IrishMidget]

3. I'm pretty sure refusing to listen to other's opinions is a bad thing.

[Aristus]

4. Not if the other side only offers uninformed opinions.

Which is true of the vast majority of the right-wing; usually by their own admission, since they proudly hate education, reason, logic, and lucidity.

An uninformed opinion has no validity. I don't care how much those offering them insist they have a "right" to their opinions.

As long as one has a right to them, why not make them informed opinions?

Otherwise, listening to them is detrimental to the public debate.

[lunatica]

5. Listening to opinions bereft of any facts or rationality is what's a bad thing

[texanwitch]

6. Same here.

If this problem isn't fixed they go done with us.

[jberryhill]

7. Hate, per se, is seldom productive

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. Lost a "friend" on FB after I ranted about the government shutdown and he called me a douche

We went to school together and we were mainly acquaintances but didn't know he was a heavy-duty teabagger type until I friended him. We've had fights about guns before but it never boiled over quite like this. Goodbye and good riddance. *ugh*

[blkmusclmachine]

9. +1000.

America, meet bathtub.

[hollowdweller]

10. I wouldn't go that far

I know some OK republicans.

But I'm 53 and by and large the campaigns that republicans have run in my time seemed to appeal to peoples fears and prejudices more than Democrats. Even when republicans were actively trying to cut vital programs I didn't see democrats engaging in the type of character assassination and provoking fear the GOP has.