By no means do I think all McCain supporters do. I think a sizable portion of them do, and it's those supporters that I react with shock and horror to.
I think McCain's policies are bad and wrong, and so yes, to that degree I am opposed to anyone who supports McCain. But the way I react to McCain supporters differs from person to person. I think my dad's reasons for voting McCain, for instance, are shortsighted and ill-thought-out, but I still have a lot more respect for him than the dreamworld of mystic nonsense exemplified by that video clip, which all too accurately matches the kind of thing I've heard from certain factions within my church for the past few months.
No one here said anything about "all McCain supporters", and if you're mad at certain Obama supporters who have done unfair things to McCain supporters, like assaulting them, I have no objection to your anger -- I'd just prefer it not be directed at me or virginia_fell or anyone else to whom it does not apply.
You will notice no one has characterized you, for instance, as believing that Kansas is a hotbed of witches, or believing the logically self-contradictory statement that Obama is at once a Marxist, a Wiccan and a fundamentalist Muslim. I do question why you find attacks on these people offensive, or feel the need to defend them as though an attack on them slights you. By so doing *you* are the one associating these people with the right wing as a whole, not us.
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Date: 2008-10-18 07:41 am (UTC)From:I think McCain's policies are bad and wrong, and so yes, to that degree I am opposed to anyone who supports McCain. But the way I react to McCain supporters differs from person to person. I think my dad's reasons for voting McCain, for instance, are shortsighted and ill-thought-out, but I still have a lot more respect for him than the dreamworld of mystic nonsense exemplified by that video clip, which all too accurately matches the kind of thing I've heard from certain factions within my church for the past few months.
No one here said anything about "all McCain supporters", and if you're mad at certain Obama supporters who have done unfair things to McCain supporters, like assaulting them, I have no objection to your anger -- I'd just prefer it not be directed at me or
You will notice no one has characterized you, for instance, as believing that Kansas is a hotbed of witches, or believing the logically self-contradictory statement that Obama is at once a Marxist, a Wiccan and a fundamentalist Muslim. I do question why you find attacks on these people offensive, or feel the need to defend them as though an attack on them slights you. By so doing *you* are the one associating these people with the right wing as a whole, not us.