Terrorist Mastermind Convicted of manslaughter. So if Bin Laden was somehow, miraculously nailed tomorrow, and brought
before the bar, and was only convicted of felony manslaughter because
he never actually flew any planes into any buildings. How would you
feel about that?
Today shows, when you cut through all of the rhetoric, the elemental
difference between the GOP and the Democratic Party and why, for all of
its faults, it is so fucking easy for me to say proudly thatI am a Democrat.
Why, for a person of conscience, there's really no contest. It's not even close.
Because unlike the Republicans, my party does not court and cultivate and lay out the fucking welcome mat for monsters.
My
Party hasn't sold its immortal soul to hate-mongering theocrats like
Jerry Falwell and James Dobson, who, in every word and deed,
aggressively seek to annihilate the very principles for which my Party
supposedly stands.
In my Party, the worst and basest impulses of the American heart do not find a happy home and a well-laid table.
In
my Party, a sickening number of senior members did not need to duck for
cowardly anonymity and cover when it comes to something as simple as
condemning lynching.
In my Party, we look on the Reign of Terror
that the Klan conducted while wearing a judge's robe and a cop's
uniform as despicable. As one of the darkest and most shameful chapters
in American history. We do not look on it with fucking nostalgia. And some Lyncher's Happy Days, where Jesse "the Fonz" Helms is idolized as a cool-kid role model.
You "Moderates Republicans" want to talk? You want to discuss Social Security and Medicare? National debt and tax reform?
Fine. But first kick the gargoyles that run your Party the hell out of your Party.
Because unlike the GOP, my Party does not negotiate with terrorists...or with those that aid and comfort and admire them.
