That, actually is my point. In your idiotic ranting and raving, you in fact show that you’re just as intolerant as the people you’re bashing with this post. And, ironically enough, you stated:

Yes, I do feel sad. I feel sad because when I meet you- sure I have my own assumptions- but they never include that you don’t care for your loved ones as I do mine.

Unfortunately, your comments to me in this thread actually suggest just the opposite being as how I have a wife, a mother, and sister who are all women who I, according to you “have issues with” and “care less about.”

I actually have a paragraph or two up there lamenting how I have the habit of making sweeping generalizations about the right…and how I tend to circle back and eliminate the NON asshats of the bunch.

So I’ll wait a sec while everyone read that.

And yes, that was directed at you, not Jim. And no, I do not believe all women have a choice in having sex. I also don’t believe society gives all women a choice in having sex even when it’s NOT rape.

So yes, I do think YOU have issues with your fellow humans if you can’t see that. It’s very clear to me, as a woman.

Aside from that issue, you really REALLY need to learn how to argue a point. This post was all about how pissed off you are that people judge you without knowing you, assume you’re a bad person, or your family isn’t moral or whatever.

You then state that because I’m against abortion that I don’t care about my fellow man (or woman more specifically). You seem to find that belief acceptable.

I’m sorry dear “Queen” but if that’s ok, then so is someone assuming that you’re immoral, or an unfit mother because you support abortion, or because of the industry your family participates in, or hell because of where you live. Please note, I do not condone or agree with those assumptions but you apparently do.

You see, once you start accepting wide sweeping judgements about people that YOU don’t agree with, you lose any ground to argue against those same kind of wide ranging, broad strokes stereotypes being applied to you in a negative way.

I think blogging the way I do, I get the nut jobs more than most. But, I’m very sad to say that I also get this from my inlaws. So I take from that …that it’s NOT just the whackos and nut jobs, it’s also the people in your own family.

I blog loud, and I blog angry, and I blog so people stand up and realize. I wish more conservatives like you would speak out to those extremists that give you all a bad name. I know I’m no fan of PETA or the idiots that burn down new construction in the name of environmentalism… but it seems this “moral majority” and preachers of “family values” are not only ignored…but held up as examples.

It’s disheartening at best.

However, in the last few months when I come over to read your blog, I read negative comments about conservatives and Republicans, and you have every right to make your points and state your opinions — it’s just that too often, I feel like I’m being slapped in the face for being who I am and thinking differently.

Never have I felt that your family is “bad” or not virtuous simply because you are a liberal or Democrat. I admire you greatly. I think you’re an amazing wife and mother, a wonderful blogger, and an inspiring political activist.

My only wish is that you didn’t paint such an awful picture of the Right. Not all of us are as horrible as you say. I don’t believe that I fit into that painting, do you?

I’m sorry that one lunatic took a shit on you, there is no excuse for that behavior.

Give this thread time and it will become about gun rights, civil rights, gay rights and will ultimately culminate in Godwin’s Law.

Unsubscribe.

As a conservative, the thing that bothers me most about the Republicans is this attempt to own the family values — especially when we’ve got awful, hypocritical human beings like Spitzer, Gingrich, etc.

As a woman who is pro-life more than pro-choice, although I understand how the competing rights to choice and life can be very, very complicated, I find a blanket statement that to be pro-life (anti-abortion, let’s say) is “enslavement” or “oppression,” is small-minded, narrow-minded, hysterical and prejudiced.

If you can’t concede that the pro-life movement, in its desire to protect life, even though we realize that sometimes protecting life injures or supercedes the right to choice, has some merit, some appeal to people who value life in all forms, then I think you’re incapable of dialogue, and therefore as stifled in your thinking as those poor, moribund conservatives you revile.