It is amusing to watch them retreat on an issue. They rationalize and when trapped, they retreat a few steps and then attempt to regroup their defense with another rationalization; rationalize...retreat...rationalize... retreat and so on.
Eventually, they end up with the justification that so-and-so did it before and therefor it must be okay.
Eventually, they end up with the justification that so-and-so did it before and therefor it must be okay.
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And this shows the difference between true conservatives and liberals (one of the main diffs anyway) that conservatives RUN ON FACT, liberals RUN ON EMOTION AND LIES.
This is why they are SO EASY TO BEAT in any debate and why they could not produce a platform for America for that reprobate Kerry to run on --- LIBERALS ARE A LIVING LIE.