lurker wrote:And Ygmir has a very valid point--I' didn't see the people on this board who lean right start cheering when Ted Kennedy turn out to have cancer--but Tony Snow didn't get the same treatment from those who tilt leftward.
Sorry dude, but that's total and complete bullshit.
Ted Kennedy is not the liberal version of Ann Coulter. Ann Coulter is not the conservative version of Tedd Kennedy.
The conservative version of Ted Kennedy would be John McCain, GET IT??
Tony Snow is not Ann Coulter. He was a conservative, and he did a lot of lying for the Bush administration, which in my opinion, was a disservice to the country, the world, and a crime. But he was not an evil person, and did not advocate hating other people, or advocate taking away the rights of entire groups of people. NOT THE SAME!!!!
It's really simplistic, and by the way, totally false, to say one of these people is on the right, one is on the left, so therefore, they are totally equal, it's just a difference of opinion.
It's like saying that "focus on the family or some other right wing fundamentalist religious group is the same as the Taliban or Al Qaeda."
THEY'RE NOT THE SAME. They have some things in common: they're both religious zealots, and they want the rest of the world to believe what they believe, and want to deny the rights of other groups. But the christian fundamentalists are not out killing people. GET THE DIFFERENCE!?!?!?
The equivalent would be the KKK or neo nazis or something like that.
Just because Ted Kennedy is on the left, and Ann Coulter is on the right, DOES NOT mean that if you take away the left/right difference, they are basically the same.