I think liberals get a bad rap for being more emotional, but if you include fear in this emotional paradigm, conservatives have liberals beat by a mile and a half. I've never seen a group of more insecure, persecution-complex-suffering, whining, and scared people in my life. They are religious to the point of shutting their minds off to the possibility that they may be wrong about the fundamental nature of reality, see the world in terms of a political map, get wrapped up in mysticism about the Great Nation State along with all of its waving flags and bald eagles and Ronald Reagan, and are scared of foreign people. Right, one terrorist attack that actually worked is supposed to set off a military action that displaces two governments and kills many more civilians and military personnel than died on 9/11 (granted those governments are horrendous no doubt).
Liberals are a lot more annoying though, but only when you take into account their perceived legitimacy that is projected through the media and the Internet. Liberals are in control of most of the flow of information in this country (mainly public schooling, universities, and news and TV media). Joe Schmo Conservative doesn't use the Internet all that often or participate as much as the angsty 21 year old liberal. These things combined makes you feel like liberalism is a bigger force in this nation than it really is, so I always feel like I'm arguing against something more substantial than mish-mash conservatism.
You do realize that both of those parties are essentially the same, right? Their only differences are Abortion, Welfare, and a few other minor thing's. The both have massive propaganda networks and are top down organizational structures. They are also both bought out by the very corporate insituations that they supposedly object to.