Why has political discourse become so nasty?, page 1

It goes to the roots of the polar extremes of American political debate, On an Issue:

Liberals - look for information

Conservatives- look for ammunition

The ultra, or radicals that are Bush-men took umbrage at Clinton�s victory, they roiled under a second cake walk victory, and saw that the most likely and logical candidate to win them the seat, John McCain , was not going to play ball, so they smeared him. Enter a near-do-well misanthrope void of conscious who can be molded to mouth any action as gospel and good for ya, Dubya.

This sickness, however, started in earnest with the Arkansas project, as described in David Brock's excellent book - 'Blinded by the Right'.
At the time, Bush Sr. was gearing up for a second term run and had the country in a pitiful state, Clinton, had started to stand prominent among the Dem contenders, yet it was still prior to the nomination.
Richard Mellon Scaife, owner of the American Standard and a media/publishing empire, as well as being a Bush insider, authorized a dirt dig on Clinton. Where there was nothing, something was created. Like Ron Reagan (folks forget Nancy was his mistress behind his first wife�s back, and that he was accused of rape - twice), and all other Alpha Males, Willie had a serious jones for that sweet coochie, so he, to his discredit, gave them the needed chink in the armor. Where there was flirtation, Scaife owned media outlets reported 'scandal' and 'affair'.
The network of media crossed over to network with legal, particularly the Federalist society ( conservative Lawyer group), bringing in Ken Star, Ted Olson, and everybody�s favorite skank, playing the role of Starr�s gopher, Ann Coulter.
Now the network never disbanded. The talking heads and the lawyers and the authors now had directly owned media outlets to give their unsubstantiated hearsay a forum.
Then, Willie sees a rubenesque honey, and has a consensual affair. The network shifted into high gear.
Sure, all the other presidents got caught � just now, there was in place for the first time, those willing, gleefully, to disparage the office with slurs and disrespect, and actually report it!!
After a thousand agents were pulled off of, oh anti terror, to chase ghost leads, a $70M price tag had to be accounted for, so we had a married man lying about an affair until alibis caved in, ( First time in recorded history I�m told). But guess what!?! People STILL thought highly of him because of a real list of accomplishments.
So what�s a dirty trick/smear campaign to do? �Work the referee� = hammer the truth, sully Clintons name, revise history, hoist canards of every accomplishment being tied to the �hard decisions that Reagan made�, and most importantly � drop the level of respect that�s automatic to the office, any office, that�s held by anything but a Republican playing ball. Hell, Republican�s have even been smeared by this Radical wing when common sense had them voting against the malignancy.
So there you have the radical Right�s story:
- Most mechanics of Arkansas project working for this administration
- Or, working for Fox, or some other Scaife media outlet
- The bar dropped so low and such an industry made of it ( Hannity/Rush/O�Reilly), that they�ll never clean up their acts�money is too good

From the left:
- Impeachment of the only good president we�ve had lately�for consensual SEX!!
- Election tampering
- Supreme court election theft
- Cronyism to big corporations, infecting every branch of government
- 9/11 allowed to happen
- Ruined the economy
- Ruined World standing
- Ruined environment
- Embarrassment of office and country

That�s why the Left stopped looking for only info and has loaded for bear.

While I can say I'm now anti-Republican, when I used to be a Centrist and voted for my local republicans, I can't say 'hate' either.
Need to know someone before I hate them.
Though I do curse at the TV whenever I see Bush before changing the channel.