Republican hatefulness

* Sue Heilman (Aug 23, Tennessean Letters) complains that Republicans have an undeserved reputation for hatefulness, just because they disagree with liberals on issues.
* I know Republicans. Some of my best friends are Republicans (as are my smartest kin). Not one has repudiated or apologized for Rush Limbaugh--the mind and heart of today's conservative movement now dominating the Republican party, who regularly characterizes me and my peeps as vile and despicable, who encourages non-renewable-resource profligacy out of hate for Al Gore and for my grandchildren, who has an insulting name (nazi, socialist, communist) for those in need of justice (labor, women, blacks, gays, poor) and those seeking to extend justice (liberals, progressives, Democrats), who says that our president hates America and whites and is destroying our economy. He uses a variety of deceptive devices to engender hate for progressives, including straw-man arguments, where he attacks Democrats for attributes that he falsely assigns to them.
* All hosts on Fox News Radio (AM 1510) are similarly hateful and deceptive. It was Steve Gill who called Obama a vile and despicable or contemptible nit wit early in 2009, intentionally squandering an opportunity for some redemption in our society.