Snark O' the Day: How Much do Conservatives HATE AMERICA? Sadly, No! (& Its Commentariat) Attempts to Answer

All during the campaign we kept hearing from Sarah Palin that Obama and his supporters didn't think about America the same way she and the morons who voted for her aspire to think of it or give it the same blind love and loyalty that the wingnuts claim to give it.  In a way, this is true.  We think it's the duty of the citizen of a democracy to place democratic ideals before blind loyalty and that "tough love" is required to keep the country on the right path. 

Joel Stein, who---at least when writing in character--- is a conservative's idea of a liberal, may or may not understand this.   Affecting to speak for all liberals, he said:

Sure, we liberals claim that our love is deeper because we seek to improve the United States by pointing out its flaws. But calling your wife fat isn’t love. True love is the blind belief that your child is the smartest, cutest, most charming person in the world, one you would gladly die for. I’m more in ‘like’ with my country.”

Conservatives had a field day with this, ingenuously taking him at his word and assuming that he is infallible on the subject of liberalism and is appointed by all liberals to speak for them.  And so Clif at Sadly, No! thoughtfully compiled a list of all the things those America-lovin' wingnuts HATE HATE HATE!!!!! about their country.

[I]n less time than it takes for Joel to steal someone else’s idea, I can come up with a list of things that conservatives hate about America:

• Its Negro President-Elect
• The Supreme Court (except when it elected Bush)
• The liberal media (except Fox News now that Alan Colmes has quit)
• Gun laws (unless they only apply to Negroes)
• San Francisco, Massachusetts, Hollywood, DC (except for the Hard Rock Cafe and the monuments)
• Major League Soccer
• Labor unions
• The federal government
• Habeas corpus
• Para español, oprima el dos.
• And on and on and on . . .

They also hate the Constitution, American liberals, anything Clinton, Al Gore, sufferers from Alzheimer's, American trees and wildlife, the economy, and all the troops they don't want to let come home (great big crocodile tears don't disguise this).  And they'll do anything they have to destroy them all.

The intelligent commenters of Sadly, No! likewise weighed in.

Scott said:

Conservatives love their country in the same way that manhood-threatened wankstains love their families after they’ve butchered them in their sleep — it’s what you scream to the TV crews while the cops are leading you away and toting your wife and kids out in body bags.

Mooser said:

There is another America, made up of myths, legends and movies. This America is the one conservatives love.

LEON TROTSKY, EXILE-IN-MEXICO, said:

Also, if you really love America, you break into her house when she’s not home after receiving a message from her in the television, kill her cat, erase the phone messages from her answering machine, and then shoot her, her boyfriend, and yourself when she gets back.

THAT’S REAL AMERICA. STALK IT OR LEAVE, LIBTARDS.

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