Are there nonRepublican humans?

I ask that because it often feels like Republicans don't think so.

I've been musing about why the Elephant party's flinging of poo usually works to turn America against the flinged-upon, even if the crime is not that dire or really that big of a deal. Damn, the Republicans make it into a big deal, don't they? Really, was Clinton sleeping with an intern as big of a deal as they made it? Oh, they say, it was the lying that made him worthy of impeachment. Oh, ok, lying, you want to go there? Do you really want to address lying when Bush and Cheney are still in power?

But then there are rationalizations for why Republicans lie. Or steal or cheat or are pregnant or whatever. I'm fine that Palin's daughter is pregnant (I agree wholeheartedly with Obama that this has nothing to do with her ability to govern) and besides being scandalized by the true scandal (that Gov. Palin's four-month-old is actually her daughter's son, which c'mon, look at the pictures - Palin really did not seem pregnant. Not sure if it was Brickel or Brislin or whatever her name's but it's VERY hard to believe it's the governor's son), I'm pissed at the reaction from the right.

Of course I'm happy they're not cussing them out and kicking them to the political curb bc she's only 17 and all, but this rolling over backwards to explain how this young girl's pregnancy actually matches all of the right's opinions is BS. OK, girls get pregnant, it happens. But don't use it as some kind of twisted way to show how kind and open-minded you are, Republican ppl. Because you know if happened to a Democratic leader's daughter, there would be no forgiveness. Only hate and judgement and hissing of "oh, look at how good your teaching about sex-ed was" and no open arms. No treating the ppl like humans.

It feels like Republicans think only they are humans, with the potential for mistakes and slip-ups and accidentally shooting ppl in the face. And "sorry" rarely comes or if it does, it feels like a dish thrown on the table and we're supposed to be happy we got apology dinner at all and we better eat it quick. We don't get to question. Or make mistakes.

So Republicans, are Democrats human? Can you give us grace for our sexual mistakes and hopeful-but-sometimes-flawed ideas? Or is every mistake and wrong turn only proof that our entire party, our whole belief system, is headed down the wrong road? Because when you Republicans mess up, it's only you as an individual that fell, not a party that only funds abstinence teaching. No, that's not it at all. It was one girl, probably just one night while we're at it, and she's getting married to him! So now we're supporting marriage. Go us.