Bucco, I thnk you're missing my point. As you've said, you have not made these type of posts. Others have and then others quickly chime in agreeing with them. My point was and is that they are not correct. As I've said, I am a liberal and proud of it.

Without liberals, there would have been no America since it was our liberal forefathers (especially Messrs. Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, et al.) who created this country. There would still be slavery, child labor, women would not have the vote, etc. if liberals had not spoken up and fought against these atrocities. We would probably still be fighting in Vietnam. There would be no social security. And these are only some of the things that have occurred because of liberals.

Yes, liberals can and do go to extremes at times. So do conservatives. The difference is that the liberals I know respect conservatives' rights to say what they believe. We'll even fight and march for that right. Here, the implication is that liberals are basically stupid (see comments like, "You think the case for global warming is proven without a shadow of a doubt, but that we need another century or two worth of evidence to figure out if capitalism and free markets work better than socialism") or misguided.

This is not the first of these type of threads that have been created here and I doubt it will be the last.

This has nothing to do with the Democrats or the left wing. This has to do with insulting people because they dare think or act differently from you. Tarring an entire group because of a radical contingent is wrong. If these type of "jokes" were directed at an ethnic group, most of you would be up in arms rather than saying that you agree and that "you have nailed it."

It is posts like this that got me to leave the political forum. It quit being enjoyable or a place to learn. It became a place to attack with no basis, no foundation, no facts -- just innuendo.