Hate Springs Eternal - Whose supporters are the worst?

[tecelote]

Here are just a few articles from 2008 when Team Hillary attacked Obama supporters...

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Hate Springs Eternal
Paul Krugman FEB. 11, 2008

"I won’t try for fake evenhandedness here: most of the venom I see is coming from supporters of Mr.
Obama, who want their hero or nobody. I’m not the first to point out that the Obama campaign seems
dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality. We’ve already had that from the Bush administration —
remember Operation Flight Suit? We really don’t want to go there again."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/opinion/11krugman.html

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CNN repeats smear of Obama supporters as "creepy" and "cult-like"

CNN's Carol Costello said that audience response at a Barack Obama rally is "a scene some increasingly find not inspirational, but 'creepy,' " quoting columnists who have likened Obama supporters to members of a cult or described their enthusiasm as "creepy." On-screen text during Costello's report read: "OBAMA-MANIA BACKLASH" and "PASSION 'CULT-LIKE' TO SOME." Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer similarly cited other writers to make the same assertion: "ABC's Jake Tapper notes the 'Helter-Skelter cult-ish qualities' of 'Obama worshipers,' what Joel Stein of the Los Angeles Times calls 'the Cult of Obama.' "

http://mediamatters.org/research/2008/02/15/cnn-repeats-smear-of-obama-supporters-as-creepy/142590

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Hey, Obama boys: Back off already!
Young women are growing increasingly frustrated with the fanatical support of Barack and gleeful bashing of Hillary.

"And yet, as Lossia wrote in a recent e-mail, “I’ve been really bothered by what I perceive as sexism [among some male Obama supporters] and have spent hours defending [Clinton] … A lot of guys just can’t stand Hillary, and it’s the intensity of their irritation with her that disturbs me more than their devotion to Obama.”

http://www.salon.com/2008/04/14/obama_supporters/

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Why Clinton voters say they won’t support Obama
The attack of the PUMAs, or a dozen reasons why Clinton voters are still too angry to come home.

"To be fair, it’s not just women. There are plenty of Clinton supporters of every demographic description who are still ticked. But yes, it’s true that the Clinton base skewed female, and that women over 30 are the most vocal of the malcontents. Some of them are calling themselves “PUMAs” (as in “Party Unity My Ass”), an acronym that makes them sound, appropriately enough, like cougars in a very bad mood. Who are these women, and why are they such buzzkills?"

http://www.salon.com/2008/06/23/pumas/

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[GoneFishin]

1. Wow. That puts Krugman in a new light.

[blackspade]

2. Hope and change are verboten to the establishment.

[ellennelle]

3. remember?

PUMAs were the worst. imho, really scary.

and we saw them way before we knew the nominee was obama.

from my narrow vantage point, i see this same pattern again, sad to say.

the supporters are following the lead of the campaign.

on each side.

no doubt there are berniebros and bras, but seriously i have not observed it.

and i have been looking, very closely.

[Fast Walker 52]

18. I remember them well from 2008

[Ed Suspicious]

4. I see the script has been well rehearsed. So has the outcome.

[NCTraveler]

5. I don't hate you, I don't hate Sanders.

Happy Saturday!!!! Going to have a fun weekend, work on Monday, then fire up some caucus grub and watch the media train wreck. Not only no hate, I'm absolutely excited.

For you my friend.

[elias49]

6. Know what's sad? Most won't pay attention..

if electing leaders of this vast nation garnered the kind of interest that the Superbowl does, we might have a more just society.

[NCTraveler]

7. I fully agree. Nt

[mountain grammy]

8. +1

[appalachiablue]

13. Amen.

[daleanime]

23. True that....

[tecelote]

12. Happy Saturday!!!!

[Vinca]

9. We can fight like rabid animals in a cage during the primary, but

let's hope we have some sort of détente after it's over so we can keep "The Donald" out of the Oval.

[oberliner]

32. The Donald is not going to be the Republican nominee

In fact, the narrative will be: Is Donald finished? after Monday.

[PFunk1]

33. I think it's almost too late for that

You think things are bad now. Wait until after NH and Iowa. No by the time this thing's over I think the primary winner will have to rely on other voting blocks to win over the repugs in '16.

But I hope I'm wrong.

[Sunlei]

10. republican Trump-baggers and Palin-baggers,like McCain said "Hobbits". worse Ds are most like Pauls

Ron Pauls I mean for the most rabid D supporters., they remind me of old Ron Pauls, lol.

[Madmiddle]

11. Krugman is a liar!!!

[appalachiablue]

14. Wow, Krugman, big fail. The same tired cliches being used again only 8 yrs. later,

hero worshippers, cult of personality, fanatics. Jake Tapper said a Helter-Skelter cultish quality? Sick.

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Yeah, right there. There it is.

Why bother to come up with new memes, when you've had a whole bunch of perfectly good ones sitting on the shelf for 8 years?

[joeybee12]

16. who needs fox noise when you do their job for them

Pathetic

[tecelote]

20. This is pathetic.

Maybe we shouldn't say anything for fear we might hit on something too damaging. Right?

You're telling me to shut my mouth.

You're in the wrong country.

[joeybee12]

21. your response is even more pathetic

And clueless. Nobody is censoring. I have ad much right to my opinions ad you and I will call out garbage when I see it

[DemocratSinceBirth]

26. +1

No further elucidation is required.

[tecelote]

27. You absolutely have a right to your opnion.

This is history, whether you like it or not.

[davidpdx]

17. It is a good reminder of what happened in the last primary

and how both sides were guilty of fanning the flames, just as they are this time.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. theRump-Cruise supporters and militias are the worst. Never lose sight of that fact

Even so, the Hillary/Bernie/Hillary/Bernie extremist partisans need to simmer down, cool down, and grow up.

Neither one is evil. The same can't be said of several of the Republican hopefuls: theRump, Cruisio, Jebbie, Paul, Huckster, Fiorini, ....

[TIME TO PANIC]

22. Who plays the sex and race card more often?

[retrowire]

24. and i just have to point out

that no Bernie supporter has set up anything similar to the grotesque jackassradicals.com or HillaryClintonsupporters.com

just saying.

[HereSince1628]

25. If you've ever wondered about innate human grouping tendencies primary season is the time

to watch for them.

Even people with great educations and terrific minds are subject to the need to be in a group identifying others as being non-group members.

[restorefreedom]

28. when i see carol costello or even see her name,

i blank out for a second. what a loathesome tool she is.

sorry, what were we talking about? oh whose supporters are the worst....how can we even have this conversation without him?

[SoapBox]

29. The worst? Puke and Bagger supporters.

[SoapBox]

30. BTW...thanks for posting. What is old (2008), is new again (2016).

[Kip Humphrey]

31. Whew! You mean its all just a sleazy, disgusting, political tactic? I thought it was all my fault.