From people like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly to Bush's own little attack dog Karl Rove.

It's on both sides. Al Franken, Michael Moore, Molly Ivins, James Carville, George Soros, etc.(granted, to varying degrees). The Bush daughters certainly have had their share of shots taken at them.

It's wrong on all sides...but don't think it's just one and not the other.

They've gone after John Kerry and John McCain and tried to make it look like their service to our country wasn't quite good enough.

Which was tasteless. But then, so did Wes Clark...again, it's on both sides.

My point is this: Don't get pissed about the current state of American political discourse in this country when for years you've allowed people like the above named to speak for you. Your silence was all the consent they needed to continue doing what they do.

Who exactly are you talking to? Whose silence? How do you know anyone here has been silent on these issues?  And about consent...how about Hilary Clinton appearing on Saturday Night Live, the same program that ridiculed her daughter years earlier for her looks?