Salon.com News | Beautiful young shock troops for Bush: "'As conservatives, we don't hate America,' Erickson told his young audience. 'The life of a liberal is hell. It is not possible to have a debate, a discussion, with someone who at their root, at their core, hates everything this country stands for but doesn't hate it enough to leave.' "

This is lovely. And you might want to read the entire article to get the whole picture of young Republican thought. They were selling "Bring Back the Blacklist" mousepads and t-shirts, wanting to abolish taxes (inner city issues "not my problem"), and extolling racism. Lovely.