[Deckard]

Yeah, that's exactly it.

Liberals may have been sanctimonious and misguided at times during the Bush era, and I'll admit there was almost an enjoyment in presenting Bush as the neoconservative, Bible-bashing, fuckwit with evil Cheney pulling his strings - but (trying as hard as I can to be objective) I maintain we had rather a lot more to base that on than the right currently do with Obama!
( ^^sorry, too near bedtime for me to sort through the grammar)

What seems to characterize the current mood of the right is
(a) their sheer stupidity
(b) their strangely visceral reaction, and the very real sense that it could tip over into violence.