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To: Darren McCarty
... her cult of personality supporters...

Try putting your emotions aside -- that sentiment of yours (above) is purely emotional.

SOME of us -- in all likelihood, most of us here -- who support and promote Palin, are doing so not because we think she's perfect (although perhaps YOU think there is such thing as a perfect candidate; I do not), nor because we see only her personality. However, IT GRATIFIES YOUR VANITY to think that the only reason we support her is because we've become "cultists" around her personality.

You think you're demeaning and insulting us, but the truth is that you demean yourself and do insult to own intelligence. If you're going to argue against Palin, those arguments will be valid and valuable if they are separated from emotion and grounded in truth.

But if you're going to use the weak, emotional "cultists!" charge to argue against the sentiments of those of us who think it's a priority to get as many Republicans and conservatives on board with her as quickly as possible, you will only reveal yourself as having shallow thought processes where emotion trumps thoughtfulness.

119 posted on 03/27/2011 3:32:14 PM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: Finny
The cult of personality charge may not fit every FReeper who supports Gov. Palin, but there are some to whom the description fits all too well. Several months ago, on a thread with a title asserting that anyone who did not support Gov. Palin for our next president wasn't a real conservative, I posted that it was too soon for me to throw my support behind a candidate until I saw who was running, and that as far as I'd heard Gov. Palin hadn't declared yet. In response to that post I was:
To other posts where I tried to discuss the reasons I do not support Gov. Palin, the only pro-Palin replies were similar NASTY personal attacks. You may not be someone who fits into the Gov. Palin cult of personality, but be assured it exists at FreeRepublic in spades.
120 posted on 03/27/2011 4:05:17 PM PDT by FourPeas
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