I don't think it is partisan as much as it is ideology. The war in Iraq isn't the kind of thing people don't have an opinion about. I am liberal but I don't consider myself a Democrat. Never voted for Clinton and didn't vote for Gore.
personally,i trace this back to the clinton impeachment.....and bush "stealing" the election from gore....
and you have to figure that the dems were basically in power for most of the 20th century....so,the shift in power was an enormous shock to their system.....
i do blame republicans for the clinton impeachment debacle....i thought it was ridiculous.....a "blowjob".....but it wasn`t even the blowjob...it was the fact that clinton was forced to testify about a blowjob.....
a blowjob?....seriously.....i can understand why dems were hysterical.....what a waste of time.resources etc.........
what a ridiculous distraction from the business of running the country....very much like the plame b.s....nobody gets prosecuted for outting a covert c.i.a. agent...because there was no covert c.i.a. agent....and this moron prosecutor couldn`t nail cheney or rove....
i guess he figured,i wasted all this time..and all these resources....i`d better indict somebody for something.....
i think all the above turned into a snowball rolling downhill and led to all this ridiculous,irrational bush hatred.....
i can understand the dems going dooseypots over the clinton thing....i felt the same way.....it was an enormous mistake by republicans....what did it accomplish?....
the bush/gore election was razor thin...so,hard feelings were inevitable....
a confluence of happenstance that has led to a pathetic polarization of america....americans....
we`re weakened because of it....and we`d better wake up soon.....
i know what everybody`s thinking.....america is forever....
but,we have middleastern religious zealots trying to kill us..procuring weapons of mass destruction.....the chinese on our heels economically and militarily.......the russians falling back into dictatorship under kgb guy putin..........some south american country`s looking to undermine us....
europe being influenced and potentially being overrun by islam.......
i`m sure they didn`t think the roman empire could fall either...
divided we fall......we`d better wake up....