[philman_36]

Well that's all fine and dandy. What I want to know is if you're now going to retract your earlier statement about party over principles being a red herring since you seem to more fully understand what I meant.

Perhaps you should have asked me what I meant by the expression before you so brusquely and cavalierly brushed my comment aside.

[C. Edmund Wright]

>> Well that’s all fine and dandy. What I want to know is if you’re now going to retract your earlier statement about party over principles being a red herring since you seem to more fully understand what I meant. <<

Sorry you took offense, and I have no qualms with your philosophy.

HOWEVER - your statement plus the article does not accurately reflect your philosophy, so I still have a qualm with YOUR STATEMENT as it reflects the point of the article — as your statement implicitly agrees with the article and I disagree with much of the article.