Originally Posted by irseg

I like when left wingers talk about how tolerant they are, then rant about how anyone who doesn't hate Bush is a far-right nazi bible-thumping fundie asshole. I've called a few out on that, the standard response is "the ONLY thing I don't tolerate is intolerance" or "well that's different, Bush is gonna kill us all and destroy America, so it's justified in that case".

Sorry, that doesn't fly. You're either tolerant or you're not. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to be intolerant, be forthcoming about it. At least conservatives will generally admit it, rather than trying to spin their dislike of opposing viewpoints into meaning they're accepting of everybody.