What happened to respect?

Interesting thoughts, why do people treat those who have different political beliefs like enemies?  I mean really, if I tell someone that I supported George W. Bush and voted for him twice, I start getting all this rage against him and me, it truly is an irrational thing to vehemently hate someone you don’t know. It’s immature to go all out and personally attack them too.  I have not seen this much bashing of anyone or at least to this extent.  The liberals who speak of tolerance and condemn people for “hate speech” seem to throw all that out the window when it comes to politics.  We are all Americans; for the most part we want to advance this country. Though there are some who seem to want to defeat it, those I will certainly take to task, but those who have a different idea of how to better this country, I can be open to discussion with.  I may not agree, but certainly won’t hate them. If you are seething with hatred for republicans and or Bush, you need to calm down, figure out why you are consumed with this hatred and give it up. That doesn’t mean scrap your opinions... unless they are deranged like thinking Bush caused 9/11/01, get real. Also the idea the Bush lied to get us to war.  He was using the same intelligence that the Dems were looking at and that President Clinton used to say the same things about Iraq, not to mention that most other countries agreed with it too (whether they agreed with going to war or not) If you still think he orchestrated all that, then you shouldn’t say anything against him, because being that powerful, you don’t want to mess with him. That also would disprove those who think he’s an idiot. Ok now that I have that out of the way... I love this country, I think defending it by securing our borders and defending it by war in other countries if necessary is a good thing. You don’t have to agree, that doesn’t make me think you are less American.  Disrespecting the President (of either party) especially as commander in chief, and rooting for us to lose a war, might make me question your patriotism. Respect seems to be a lost quality in America. Opinions can vary, but we should all treat each other with respect, unfortunately, those in Washington can’t seem to understand that either. They sadly have become a reflection of the country as a whole instead of being leaders.