Getting nasty and personal demonstrates lack of complete counter argument. Doing so also is a demonstration of a lack of understanding that not all reasons for taking a postion come from the same space politically. Different people coming from a different political perspective can favor an idea for different reasons, yet some folks thinking that is never possible try to slander someone as a member of the “other camp”. and that THAT is why they have taken the position they do, when nothing could be further from the truth.
Well stated.
Free Republic is a political forum and politics isn’t beanbag. The Founding Fathers of this country slung a lot of mud and demands by GOPe Freepers to moderate the tone is nothing but a form of censorship cloaked in calls for man ers.
In the presidential election of 1800 Jefferson’s camp accused President Adams of having a “hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.” In return, Adams’ men called Vice President Jefferson “a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father.”