Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
What is with right-wing pundits trying to equate "American" with "Republican"?

There's nothing un-American about leaning to the left, but there's a lot of things un-American about trying to paint all the opposition as unpatriotic. People like Rush Limbaugh up there really need to just quietly go away.
I concur with your second point. However, I think that in its essence America how it was conceived by our forefathers is quite clearly in line with republican ideals. Democrats are not necessarily wrong because of that it is simply a fact.