I dunno.. Maybe I was having a good morning and some part of me thought I didn’t deserve it. My inner badass searching for ways to sabotage my day — harsh my buzz, if you will. For some reason, I decided to swing over to the Republican National Committee homepage (GOP.com).

I expected most of what I saw, but maybe not all at once. The front page is an unending torrent of attacks, insults, and arguments tailored for the lowest common denominator (read: The American People). Much like this year’s Republican Presidential campaign (and those of the past), this page is the political equivalent of spreading rumors about someone’s sister on the playground. Dirty, misleading, slanderous assaults heaped upon one another like they were going out of fashion. Unfortunately they aren’t. There are four pictures of Kerry on the front page, each toting an aggressively demeaning tagline. There is one photo of George Bush found towards the bottom of the page, followed by a weak single paragraph touting Bush’s approval of “a single, unified Department of Homeland Security” — an issue still rife with debate even within the Republican Party.

Is it really that difficult to find positive things to say about the incumbent?

Well, before I let my righteous indignation get the best of me (like I have any control over that), I thought I’d hit the Democratic National Committee’s (democrats.org), just to be sure they weren’t playing the same game. They’re not.

The DNC page is stacked with positive messages and photos of the increasingly charismatic Democratic Duo. Most of these messages involve some brand of community outreach, message to the people, chances to help the campaign ona grassroots level, or links to their own Blog. No shots of Bush, and only one at him in the form of a link at the bottom of the sidebar offering up state by state and point by point evidence of poor judgment on the part of the President. No slogan. No barb. It says “Bush’s Record Exposed” and has a pulldown from which you can choose your own state.

In a race where the choices have supposedly been Bush or Not-Bush, the Not-Bush side has decided that their candidate is so strong that they need not rely on the politics of hate and the policy of spin to make their point. This President’s mistakes have been easier to pinpoint than any in my lifetime, and still the DNC page chooses to take a positive approach, even in light of the shitstorm brewing at GOP.com.

I encourage you to visit both pages. Click into them. The trends set on the front page continue throughout. Set aside a few minutes to take in the Kerry-oke cartoon at GOP.com, where Kerry is depicted in cartoon form as a lounge lizard, cigarette in hand, and where some devilishly un-clever lyrics have been penned for a ditty called “The Flips We’ve Flopped”, presumably to the tune of “The Way We Were.” Then try to find the equivalent on the DNC page. It’s not there. It’s not needed. It’s not acceptable.