Comment Re:You must've been under a rock then (Score 1) 904
It fell into the previous (AC) posters Orwellian Memory Hole. You did risk it and you got it. In Republican circles you got it especially if you were a Libertarian or Paleo-conservative Republican, and you usually got it from someone who supported Rudolph Giuliani or John McCain.
If you were a liberal you got it if you didn't make sure you were in good with the Israel lobby, but were certainly admired for hating Bush on principle without criticism, because they were on the other "team".
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right...
Indeed the Bushbots are still on the whole You Hate America if you don't (unquestioningly) Support The (actions of our interventionist foreign policy)Troops tripe.