>>No need on my part—I’m not the troll.<
As usual for you and yours, you conflate “refusal to worship” with “trolling.” Understandable. And, of course you place upon others conceptual sanctions which you will not accept. Also understandable.
“Being Prometheus is a thankless task.”
And yet, I can stand back and watch all of you enact Sisyphus. To my great mirth.
But it is always great to see all of you congregate with bumper-sicker speak and high fives. When you have removed all negative thoughts you have won... um, something.
Read my posts on this thread. I don't worship Palin; but I did refute your inaccurate talking points.
And the truth is out for anyone who reads the posts in context: you ignored them, since they were not the kind which would result in a flame-war (igniting and maintaining flame wars to disrupt a thread is one of the textbook definitions of a troll).
Understandable. And, of course you place upon others conceptual sanctions which you will not accept. Also understandable.
This is meaningless without examples. But I wasn't the one mistaking reductio ad absurdum for ad hominem; and ironically enough, doing so in the midst of an ad hominem. Your arguments have been personal, rather than logic-based (both at Sarah Palin and at other posters on the thread), despite your earlier offer to "FReepmail me if you need help."
“Being Prometheus is a thankless task.”
And yet, I can stand back and watch all of you enact Sisyphus. To my great mirth.
That sentence looks like you rummaged quickly in a Thesaurus for "Greek myths" and pulled up a name at random: there is nothing Sisyphean about Palin's candidacy (as one might argue there is for Bachmann, more's the pity), because Sarah does not keep "rolling to the bottom" : her popularity is waxing, not waning, for one thing, and the "gotcha" cries from the press are becoming laughable. As when even the historian contacted by NPR admitted that Sarah was right about what happened on the Paul Revere ride. Go read the transcript: she specifically did NOT say that Revere *set out* to warn the British, but that that's what had *happened*.
Did it ever occur to her detractors that she had just *finished* touring some of these sites and might have listened to the tour guides, or read up independently?
And for that matter, compare Bachmann's crowd at her announcement (about 200 people, of whom a goodly number were members of the press) to the estimated 1000 or so who showed up to meet Palin, who has not yet declared, to see a film which cost $1 million to make, produced by a skilled cinematographer without cost to her.
And how well she sucked the oxygen from both Bachmann and Obama just by attending.
Read this post for some fascninating insight into the choice of Pella for the premiere of The Undefeated in Iowa.
But it is always great to see all of you congregate with bumper-sicker speak and high fives. When you have removed all negative thoughts you have won... um, something.
That doesn't make sense, either. We're not "removing all negative thoughts" but getting rid of Romney / Rove / MSM-inspired talking points designed to dissuade her from entering the race, in order to make the road to the White House safe for another "*darn it*, we lost AGAIN with a RINO (this time with a Massachusetts liberal or a Texan who can be trivially associated with George Bush or with Racism against a black man)" so that the RINOs who have subverted the GOP can continue going to their tony cocktail parties and circle jerks on the B-list side of the Washington DC / Georgetown social circuit.
Cheers!