I was reading this thread and was inclined to create an account just to mention something that I noticed:
It seemes to me that there has been alot of name calling or colorful labeling of the opposing parties on this thread. These include:
"lightweight", "ethics-challenged", "absurd", "mindless", "blatant lies", "stupid", "crackpot", "pinko comies", "lying smearfests", "hysterical", "laughable", "inept", "squel like a stuck pig", "assinine", "dumb", "dusgusting specimine of a partisan leech", "can't respond intelligently", "mindless drivel", "grossly misguided", "temper tantrum", "point of crap", "posturing", "rediculous", "whined to the moderators", "lame hysterical arguments", "halfwit posturing", "really phony", "feeble attempt at logic", "some of us have lives", "wack job conspiracy", "crap you peddle", "lie through his teeth", "moronic", "mindless smears", "whining", "obviously you have" <-- when reffering to whether or not an opposing account member has been on wellfare, "lying through your teeth", "really sharp there sparky", "crackpot", "absurdities", "hysterical", ,"Al Queda friendly, enemy apeasing, anti-economy *name left out to be objective* presidency", "unable to grasp", "make an a** of yourself", "Real gansta *** *****s don't flex nuts, 'cause real gansta *** *****s know they got 'em." <-- I'm pretty sure this was meant as an insult, "neausiatingly phony", "spew session", "some of the **** you tried to pull", "YOUR definition of truth (i.e., Move On propaganda and conspiracy theories)", "but to those of us ADULTS who prefer facts and evidence", "childish taunting", "keep on spewing", "you don't care about the truth, you couldn't make that more clear", "BS taunting", "If you would like to keep running your mouth", "you present conspiracy theories and hysteria", "you just aren't worth the effort because you have zero concern for the truth", "genius" <-- used in faceious way, "conspiracy theories and hysterical adolescent smears", "You are a total waste of time", "The biggest oxymoron of them all "*party affiliation left out to be objective* ethics"", "bunch of wimps", "lying, posturing, *** you are", "you serve no purpose on this site", What *name left out to be objective* is doing is exactly the right thing (Which was already obvious from the fact that *party affiliation left out to be objective* were outraged)", "grossly missinformed", "ethically challenged ", "victim of the *party left out the be objective* wing press and a slave to spin", "You *party affiliation left out to be objective* make me sick", "shove your erroneous smears where the sun doesn't shine", "He made it up....because he is a *party left out to be objective*", "You cannot refute any of these things any better than *name left out because of consideration to poster* (yes, that should be horribly insulting)", "dittoheads", "celebration of hypocracy", "spew their unreality into their sheep", "dittohead".
Yes I realize that there were some in that list that were there more than once but that was because they were used on multiple occations.
I also tracked to amount of cussing used in this thread and which party was the offender.
As of now, the tally is thus:
Conservatives insulting Liberals: 52
Liberals insulting Conservatives: 14
Conservatives using cuss words or *'s to block out the vowels: 12
Liberals using cuss words or *'s to block out the vowels 11
I just thought that those statistics would prove interesting in this debate. Only because that the accusation that the Liberals were the ones name calling and demeaning their opponents when they were loosing was brought up MULTIPLE tiems. I hope that ends the discussion on that particular point.
I would also like to note that I didn't count the general negativity of the posts because that would pretty much include ALL of them, somethign that would prove to be a mute point.
In case you were wondering, the largest offender of name calling and negative speech was from Aquapub.