pwoxby:

@ ladykrystyna:

"One side usually tells their wingnuts off and the other side just seems to embrace them..."

You are truly immune to irony, aren't you? The hard-core Right has embraced the biggest wingnut of them all, George W. Bush. The other 75% of the country is telling Bush off, as is indicated by all the polls.

Actually, if you spend any time actually listening to conservative talk radio and reading articles on conservative web sites, including the Comments, you would find many Hard-Core Right people NOT agreeing with everything Bush does. In fact, in many ways, he's not much of a real fiscal conservative and that ticks many people off on the Right.

See, I do understand that there are variances on the Left and on the Right. But I don't hear too many lefties actually smacking down the wingnuts on their side unless it's politically expediant. How long was Obama going to listen to the hate speech coming from Rev Wright before he decided hanging with him was not such a great idea? I still haven't really heard him say that much of what Rev Wright has to say is hateful and divisve.

But, as I've said, Bush basically told Robertson and Falwell to shut up and he wasn't running for President at the time.

Bush is hardly what I would consider a wingnut. He's barely really conservative at all, especially fiscally (with his "compassionate conservatism [read: taxes for programs supported by Republicans] and No Child Left Behind, that's hardly really conservative).

Robertson and Falwell's comments were "wingnut" and Bush called him out for it.

If you have an example that actually goes against what I said, than I'd be happy to admit it.

Cheers.