Why do we try to reconcile with the right wing?

I went to youtube to watch a video retrospective of Senator Ted Kennedy's life and the comments from right wingers are reprehensible, hateful and vile.

Someone remind me why we should try to get along with these hateful bitter evil people.

Push through health care reform without their help or input. Push a democratic progressive agenda without their wicked money grubbing perversion.

Fuck the right wing politicians. Fuck their ignorant supporters.

They don't want compromise, they want to destroy us and everything we stand for. I will not make concessions to these people anymore. If someone bad mouths my President, I am done with them. If they make threats, I will report them to the Secret Service.

Rest in peace Senator Kennedy, I am sorry you didn't live long enough to see America live up to it's potential and I hope you and your family aren't aware of the truly horrible things people are saying about you on the day of your passing.

Of all of his many many strengths and accomplishments, Ted Kennedy will forever be remembered by those who served on the Hill with him for his willingness to work across the aisle to find compromise. Sadly, the number of grown-ups on the other side of the aisle is dwindling. But it would do no honor to Teddy's memory to use his death as the basis for refusing to seek compromise if and where it is available.

Thank you.

They lop it off and wave the bleeding appendage over their heads to show their screaming base that they beat us once again.

How many bloody stumps do we have to nurse before we get the picture?

They don't want compromise, they want to destroy the Democratic Party.

TeeVee being the umbilical cord to many people's brains.....

There's no sense in arguing anymore-- they are in desperate need of good old education.

The place to start is TeeVee news. It is time for REAL news.

"Be the better person."

Uh, by morals and values, I already AM, by a country mile, the "better person". Someday, we're simply going to have to accept that trying to offer a flower to pig fascists with rifles is an exercise in futility.

Personally, I'm waiting for the Reagan Democrat leftovers to go the way of the Dodo. The younger people seem more acclimated to change. These town hall disruptions are primarily being driven by the 45-and-older set that got raised on Cold War, "Us 'n' Them" rhetoric and racism, still use dusty "Communist" insults and have a not-so-veiled hatred of different races and ethnic origins largely because they have no point.

There ARE moderates who are ambivalent about their own party and its direction. They aren't progressive republicans like Rockefeller, but still more likely than not to discuss the issues sanely. The right wing can be marginalized if they are not part of a solution.

Some of them are total assholes and I don't bother, but I know quite a few people who are victims of fact-free propaganda by the right. I'm not sure it's possible to win them over, but I do try to encourage them to at least look things up and to question what they're told - maybe they'll win themselves over, right?

That said, there are some Republican politicians who are not worth trying to appease because they - like some of their asshole followers - see compromise as a weakness, and never will. These are the ones who will stop at nothing to defeat us, and who are in it solely for the money & power, like Palin and so many others.