Democrats Are Nicer?

Now this really is news! Did you know that the problem with Democrats is that they're too nice?

Usually the toughness gap is the Democrats' own fault. Because liberals are temperamentally self-critical, they tend to see more grays than black-and-whites. Republicans are better at closing ranks. If Kerry were the GOP candidate this year, hardly anyone in his party would be trashing him privately or predicting defeat, as some Democrats are doing.

A related contrast comes in the way the parties address their own constituencies. Republicans offer "red meat," a sense that they share the resentments of their audience. Democrats, schooled in political correctness, tiptoe around their friends, ever anxious not to offend. This conditions them to be more defensive and reactive toward their enemies.

Do the Republicans have anyone like James Carville? Has a Republican president's press secretary ever said the Democrats would prefer that old people die in the streets?

As a Republican myself, I'm a little tired of being called a racist, a sexist, a bigot and a homophobe on a daily basis.