Where did I say that?
You need to pick up some of this intell-ec-too-all lingo like me and Andy and Ditto and Non-Sequitur use. We is eddjicated. Heck. I can cipher to the 'rule of three'.
Use some of that Ivory Tower lingo like, "As I indicated....", or, "I have tried to suggest..."
Now, where did I even -suggest- that protectionists were a non-issue? Hey, wouldn't it be better to say "protectionism"?
It -would- suck to have some little skulldugger of a protectionist pulling at ye pant leg.
Walt
Right here where you remarked "The Georgia secession document even mentions "the free trade environment now prevailing" or words to that effect" in order to argue that the protectionist movement was not a cause.
We is eddjicated.
You sure "is," though where I know not. Based on their respective products I do believe a strong case could be made for dissolution of each institution on the grounds of failure though.
Now, where did I even -suggest- that protectionists were a non-issue?
Right here: "The Georgia secession document even mentions "the free trade environment now prevailing" or words to that effect."
Hey, wouldn't it be better to say "protectionism"?
No, because referencing a protectionist indicates the individual and tangible nature of the person promoting protectionism. The Lincoln was a protectionist and calling him that denies you the opportunity to argue his escape from it by generalizing the protectionist movement into the economic theory of protectionism.
It -would- suck to have some little skulldugger of a protectionist pulling at ye pant leg.
From what you've suggested to be your case, he's hanging on your wall in a position of your personal adoration.