"Go F@%# Yourself"

I posted this last week about Republicans getting the spite vote, and it's nice to see some assholery to support that hypothesis this week at the RNC Convention. On Monday, a Virginia delegate was handing out band-aids® with purple hearts on them, mocking Senator Kerry's supposedly superficial wounds from Vietnam. This led to other delegates yukking it up; "I cut myself shaving, so I wrote up a commendation and got me a Purple Heart," said one. (Sheila Lennon has more, here)

Then last night Zell Miller and Dick Cheney ripped into Kerry. Zell was spewing righteous ferocity and the crowd was eating it up. The article I linked above came into sharp focus right there. I can't tell if these are geniunely mean people, or just caught up in the partisan hive-mind atmosphere, but it's harsh nonetheless. The DNC Convention had its Bush bashing, of course, but being pissed off at an incumbant's record is a different beast than the hatred and ridicule directed at the challenger.

Also does anyone know where the ridiculously childish practice of calling the Democratic Party "the Democrat Party?" That's just obnoxious, and I have trouble taking anyone seriously who does this. I assume it's a case of deliberately getting someone's name wrong to show how little you respect them, but I honestly don't know. And I'm certainly not going to wade through oceans of anti-Democrat bile to find out.