I firmly believe most republicans are decent folks who only what what’s best for America, as are most Democrats. But when it comes to divisiveness one need only consider the house Senate minority leaders comments that the republican’s primary goal for the next four years is to assure Obama is not reelected.

One of my fishing buddies is very far right and spends all day listening to right wing hate talk. Why do I call it hate talk? My friend is convinced that Obama’s goal is to destroy America. Where did he get that? From right wing talk radio.

You bet there are hateful left wing talk radio wackjobs, but not nearly as many on the right. Where the left uses humor ALA John Stewart, Bill Mahr, Steven Colbert, most of the right uses vitriol ala Hannity, Rush and so many others.

As for the original point of this post I see no reason to think that many or most conservatives are knuckle dragging racists, but I am also sure that the vast majority of knuckle dragging racists would describe themselves as conservatives.