The party of hate continues its violent ways

Straight on the heels of Solaman's report of another act of violence against Republican offices comes yet another report out of Oregon courtesy of Powerline:

Someone smashed the windows of the Multnomah County Republican office in Southeast Portland on Thursday, perhaps the latest sign some Oregonians have tossed out civility in their zeal to put their man in the White House.
Patrick Donaldson, volunteer chairman of the Bush campaign in Multnomah County, said the broken windows, discovered early in the morning, follow weeks of harassment, including threatening phone calls and people walking into the office and ripping up signs.

The executive director of the Oregon Democratic Party doesn't help the situation by pretty much rubber stamping the violence:

"But the fact is that the reason the Republican Party is feigning righteous indignation is because they don't want to talk about the 30,000 jobs lost and the 180,000 Oregonians who have lost health care," said Neel Pender, executive director of the state Democratic Party.

To be completely fair (and balanced), I realize that all Democrats aren't like this. (I happen to know a few.) The ones that aren't seem to be in the minority, however, which is unfortunate. When "anybody but Bush" and "because he's not Bush" become the party's major reasons to vote for Kerry, the general hatred of the party becomes evident. People are voting for Kerry for no other reason than that they hate President Bush (and the Republicans who support him). Couple that with the vicious slurs against President Bush and his administration, the lies, the four-year-old grudge for losing Florida fair and square (despite Gore's attempts to the contrary), and you've got a fertile ground for acts of violence like this to spring up. It's not President Bush's fault that these acts are occuring, as Neel Pender would have you believe. It's the Democrats' fault. Four years of Bush hating.