Let’s forget the election shenanigans for now. The OP talked about divisiveness, and suggested that it is a bad thing, that we should be above all that. So, in the interest of being “fair and balanced”, here is a quick look at the great unifiers of the right, those champions of reconciliation…
*“Joe Wilson has no right to complain. And I think people like Tim Russert and the others, who gave this guy such a free ride and all the media, they’re the ones to be shot, not Karl Rove.” – Republican Congressman Peter King, on MSNBC’s “Scarborough Country”
“[A]ny American that undermines that war, with our soldiers in the field, or undermines the war on terror, with 3,000 dead on 9-11, is a traitor. Everybody got it? Dissent, fine; undermining, you’re a traitor. Got it? So, all those clowns over at the liberal radio network, we could incarcerate them immediately. Will you have that done, please? Send over the FBI and just put them in chains, because they, you know, they’re undermining everything and they don’t care, couldn’t care less.” – Bill O’Reilly, June 20, 2005
“In a May 17 radio broadcast, telephilosopher Bill O’Reilly fantasized unpleasantly that terrorists might ‘grab’ the Los Angeles Times editorial and opinion editor ‘out of his little house and … cut his head off.’” - Los Angeles Times, May 24, 2005
“We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals by making them realize that they could be killed, too.” - Ann Coulter, 2002
"Chelsea is a Clinton. She bears the taint; and though not prosecutable in law, in custom and nature the taint cannot be ignored. All the great despotisms of the past - I’m not arguing for despotism as a principle, but they sure knew how to deal with potential trouble - recognized that the families of objectionable citizens were a continuing threat. In Stalin’s penal code it was a crime to be the wife or child of an ‘enemy of the people’. The Nazis used the same principle, which they called Sippenhaft, ‘clan liability’. In Imperial China, enemies of the state were punished ‘to the ninth degree’: that is, everyone in the offender’s own generation would be killed, and everyone related via four generations up, to the great-great-grandparents, and four generations down, to the great-great-grandchildren, would also be killed. (This sounds complicated, but in practice what usually happened was that a battalion of soldiers was sent to the offender’s home town, where they killed everyone they could find, on the principle neca eos omnes, deus suos agnoscet - 'let God sort ‘em out’.) - John Derbyshire, The National Review
“When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.” – Anne Coulter
There are no good Democrats. – Anne Coulter
“My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.” -Anne Coulter
“People like you caused us to lose the war.” (to a disabled Vietnam Veteran) - Anne Coulter*
Let’s not forget 1966, when Newt Gingrich and company actually shut down the entire givernment over partisan politics.
Then there is The Bush. Out one side of his mouth he promised to be a uniter, not a divider. He promised to be honest and ethical, and then the lies started, that led us to war, and then more lies to cover up the lies (WMD, yellow cake, Plame). He promised to be a tolerant guy and be everyone’s president, and then started pandering to religious zealots (Schiavo, antigay etc).
Aw screw it. I will hold to my grudges and be proud of them. I didn’t divide the country.
