Posted on 04/18/2006 10:08:55 AM PDT by mrhansen
Ok, I am arguing with some liberals who keep on insisting that Republicans are having more legal problems than Democrats could ever hope to. I remember reading stats on this somewhere, but I can't find them.
Any help in smoking a lib would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Never rassle with a hog. He enjoys it, and you get all muddy. Kind of like teachin' one to sing too.
You'll have to qualify that argument: legal troubles: civil or criminal? In what time period? Public or Private individuals? Once you start narrowing his focus down, he'll reveal the areas he doesn't want included in his position... and then you will have a clear target.
I'm talking in the last 20 or so years. They love pointing to some 'Republican' on some local city council in Podunk, Kentucky getting caught stealing from a 7/11 and other trivial matters to justify their argument that all Republicans are 'evil'.
I know it is a flawed argument at best, but most of these people haven't had any formal training in logic or reasoning skills.
I can't hold that against them.
I'm talking in the last 20 or so years. They love pointing to some 'Republican' on some local city council in Podunk, Kentucky getting caught stealing from a 7/11 and other trivial matters to justify their argument that all Republicans are 'evil'.
I know it is a flawed argument at best, but most of these people haven't had any formal training in logic or reasoning skills.
I can't hold that against them.
Who knows what the Democrats are hoping for? Seriously, the party in power tends to be where the "scandals" are because, A) they are the focus of attention and B) power attracts $$$ (most likely no Dems will be indicted in the "Abramoff net", not because of their virture, but because people who want something done will go the folks in power, not the minority party).
That said, I think an enormous opportunity was squandered by Ken Starr et al, when the focus of the "Clinton scandals" came down to a tawdry, little affair. Vince Foster, Mena airfields, Ron Brown assassination, filegate, etc. all fell by the wayside because of a political calculation to bring WJC down with a sex scandal.
The result was the perception that the judiciary system was being manipulated to "create" a crime - perjury trap whatever, and in retrospect, maybe it was - in order NOT to pursue the bigger crimes of the Clinton admin.
Why? To save the public the trauma? Well, the result is that we have an empowered Hillary, with (as incredible as it may seem) a shot at the WH for herself.
Well then, as the earlier posted commented: don't waste your time arguing with a hog.
I can't believe it matters........
Just ask them, If dems are not corrupt, why are they SO against picture id's at the voting booths?
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