On 6/20/09 I posted a message about the tendency of conservatives to label those who disagree with them with some negative term. Today an op-ed columnist from the NY Times writes about President Obama in regard to national security and calls him the following; a) "Captain Obvious", b) "President Cool" and c) "No Drama Obama". Sarah Palin in her book-Going Rogue-says that John Kerry is an "elitist loon" (p. 181). She refers to an opponent as "a Birkenstock and granola Berkeley grad"(p. 76). This tendency does not only occur when nationally known political figures are involved; it also occurs on a personal level. A relative has called me all kinds of negative things, most recently an atheist and marxist. Is this an intellectual flaw common to political conservatives?
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