While a large swath of people believe that conservatives hate women and people that aren't white, this is not the case.
Racists prejudice a specific race. Sexists prejudice a specific gender. Conservatives, however, are just people that have a different view on how a country should be run. These three things are completely separate qualities. Some people may exhibit several of these qualities, while others do not. I imagine this is why you are being downvoted.
Actually I doubt many people truly believe that "conservatives hate women and non-whites", it's just a rhetorical hammer used by those arguing against conservatives. Whether the argument is fallacious and/or inaccurate really doesn't matter.
I was about to say something like "welcome to modern politics", except we have evidence of this kind of thing going on since elections in ancient Rome, and it's probably far older than that, too. So "welcome to human nature", maybe.
> Racists prejudice a specific race. Sexists prejudice a specific gender. Conservatives, however, are just people that have a different view on how a country should be run.
I'm not sure I consider myself "left leaning" per se -- I guess it depends on the issue. Before Bush Jr. my nomination for best president of the last hundred years would have been Dwight Eisenhower (R) and my worst would have been Lyndon Johnson (D). Bush has likely edged out Johnson for worst.
Interestingly both Lyndon Johnson and Bush Jr. were Southern Democrats. Most of the craziness about today's GOP can be traced to the fact that they were overrun with former Dixiecrats. Bush was basically a Dixiecrat who ran as a Republican.
The Southern Democrat position combines everything bad about the Democrats (big government, high taxes, etc.) with everything bad about the Republicans (fundamentalism, warmongering). (Bush did raise taxes, just indirectly. Taxation equals spending as per simple double-entry accounting, and Bush raised spending and increased the size of government considerably.)
Not everybody is left-leaning here.