No. The Republican dead-enders ARE freaks and racists.
From Salon.com, Alexandra Pelosi on interviewing Republicans during the McCain campaign:
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Quoting a Republican from New York: “I drive through downtown Columbus, Ohio, and I see these iconic, artistic images of Barack Obama with the word ‘Hope’ under it, and I feel like I’m living in Castro’s Cuba.” I live in Union Square in Manhattan, and I walk out my front door and there are just lines of buttons, lines of T-shirt salesmen selling these artistic images of Barack Obama. I’ve been to Cuba. That’s exactly what it looks like. There are some things that they see that make them uncomfortable. And I think we have to respect that and understand that. Not say, “Oh, they’re just extremists. Oh, they’re just freaks. Oh, they’re just racists.” They’re not. They just don’t agree with us on, like, moral and cultural and political issues. They don’t agree with us on anything, really.
and here’s another nice tidbit (interviewer Mark Schone, interviewer, from Salon):
At one point, you’re talking to someone who describes Obama as the antichrist, and you say to him, “Do you want to maybe rethink that? Because I’m going to be accused, when this is on TV, of just looking for the craziest guy in the room.” And he ponders it and says, “No.” He’s OK with saying it. How often did you have that kind of conversation with somebody?
Every day. It was much more common than you’d think. In the heat of an election, people say some crazy things. And in the case of the gentleman you’re talking about, I have talked to him since then and this is just the way he sees it. I heard that every single day. It was much more common than you’d think. And I think that a lot of them were mimicking things they heard on right-wing radio.
While Alexandra Pelosi might have a bit of sympathy for these grieving Republicans, I can tell you without hesitation that I have none. Nada. Not one ounce of sympathy for people who would call Obama the antichrist.
While they might not say it, this is more than just simply disliking the candidate you didn’t vote for. This is hatred driven by fear and ignorance.The likelihood of this country becoming even the slightest bit more socialist than it already is - especially under a Democratic administration (which, consequently, gives more of a damn about people’s freedom’s and the independent spirit than the Republicans of today ever did) - is laughable. Sure, they’re serious. But they’re also stupid and are letting their prejudices rule their emotions.
Once again, I’ll tell it like it is since no one else will. These people, the good people of the red states who fear Obama, are prejudice. It may not register for them as that, but it is the core reason they cannot accept this man as their President they way George Bush was accepted by everyone after his election.
And I don’t care if they are grieving. Let them grieve. Let the world pass them by. If you are so childish as to call this man the “antiChrist” you deserve all the misery associated with his success. I will happily watch - and laugh - as these ignorant rednecks spin and twist with every success Obama has.
