You know why.  Because we've been infiltrated.

I just KNOW you aren't referring to my posts in that Condi thread!!! lol

I've been called a liberal quite a few times here, you'll get to know my views.

I do not know why there are right winged blacks on this board! If you read any of my posts you'll see that I am not one of them. You are attempting to make a political kick about the praise of a person.

To me, Bush is stupid because he's stupid. He's greedy because he's greedy and he's selfish because he's selfish, those traits show themselves in some of his political moves but the personal stuff released about him says the same. Now I challenge you to find personal things about Rice that says she is this horrible person you portray her to be.

I honestly don't think that many folks around here are paid GOP supporters.  In fact, I only have that feeling about one.  I've seen one poster with the same approach since I first came here in 1999: constantly looking for opportunities to praise Bush and Republicans (no matter what the facts) and constantly looking for ways to criticize Democrats.  You'd figure that with this administration's performance, the chances to honestly praise Bush would be kind of slim, and that some of the pro-Dubya noise would quiet down.  When it doesn't slack off at all, you have to suspect that singing from the GOP songbook is in their job requirement.  Example: take a look and see who has excuses for the Republicans who voted against extension of the Voting Rights Act?  That's a very small and very devoted category here.

I think the more common explanation is that folks are acting on the presumption that we are uniformly unaware.  Some folks are contrarian, you know: if everybody says "up," they'll say "down," just for the sake of saying it.  I think plenty of Republican apologists here are well aware of the 90% support for Democratic Party candidates in recent presidential elections, and because all the mopes they know are part of that 90%, they think that the entire number is made up of people who are dense or lazy or clueless.  And it's certainly true that some of us are pro-Democrat and anti-Republican because that's they way they've always known things to be.  So what you commonly see here is folks who are used to grilling people who haven't thought through their party affiliation.  They enjoy dishing out beatdowns to anybody who can't explain themselves -- which is no different from what happens on message boards on any subject; I see it happen on boards discussing sports, cars and music, too. 

Since we're so commonly identified as Dem-supporters, folks looking for those kind of targets know where to come.  Two separate (but sometimes overlapping) crowds can get their jones fed here: those who want to bash folks they perceive as Democrats/liberals, and those who think they have the ammunition to bash black people. You can generally see that targets are what they're looking for from their usual reluctance to engage in honest debate on issues on even terms.  Many would rather just wait to pounce on somebody who reinforces their presumption that we're all poor, dumb, easily led, and waiting for handouts.

I honestly don't think that many folks around here are paid GOP supporters.  In fact, I only have that feeling about one.  I've seen one poster with the same approach since I first came here in 1999: constantly looking for opportunities to praise Bush and Republicans (no matter what the facts) and constantly looking for ways to criticize Democrats.

Ok, you're either talking about Osprey, aka Roovia, or lgeorge, right?