Posted on 05/05/2009 9:01:59 AM PDT by redk
Edited on 05/05/2009 9:18:01 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
VD: Reagan, by the way, was divorced, so I suppose by your standard, he would be open to criticism as a candidate on those grounds.
He was also a Democrat at one time, and a union leader, but he got over it. It's not about the mistakes you made but about your willingness to call those mistakes what they are. It's also about the courage to face up to detractors and say, "I won't let even my own mistakes or the mistakes of my children unshackle me from my burden of telling the truth."
You were clearly depicting Reagan as having made a mistake and then you followed it up with your so-called hypothetical.
It's my fault for thinking you could organize your thoughts coherently.
It's remarkable how your comments are off base. I have not defended any actions I know to be wrong. I explicitly said that Bristol's situation isn't good. As for the comments about Reagan, you haven't come close to answering my direct question.
And you talk about a bad witness? Then stop attributing falsehoods to me, as there is no false pretense I need to drop. I am who I am, I meant what I said, and what you see is what you get. I call it like it is, without any pandering or obfuscation. You can't stay on point, you can't handle the truth, you rant and rave over a young woman's mistakes that no one has approved or promoted. Those with some humility and a degree of intelligence know that we are all human and as such, we all make mistakes. Poor judgment doesn't damn one forever.
Yes you should pray, but pray for some wisdom and humility for yourself and for some clarity of thought. I pray daily for myself, my family and my friends, and with the grace of God I have clarity and goodness in my heart.
I just came back from a late tennis match. It took all the afternoon, but I feel good that I beat my opponent. I usually beat older guys, but guys my age usually beat me, LOL. Today I beat an opponent about my age, and I realize, hey, all it took was more concentration and reading his mind. In other words, figuring out what he is going to do before he does it. My friends and I went out for pizza and chicken wings afterward, so I feel good.
No, I have no intention of feeding the sexual appetite of a mental case. His obsession with Sarah Palin focuses on the sexual exploits he concocts and the blame he places on her for her daughter's situation, as if Sarah had committed the act. He punctuates his accounts with curses and condemnations. He views Sarah as a sexual object, as he only sees her big boobs and good makeup instead of policies, as he has repeatedly pointed out.
If I were FR's owner, I would've banned him a long time ago based on his posting history, complete with the sexual connotations, innuendos, and perverted arguments that have nothing to do with Palin the politician. His post history reveals that he is most likely a liberal and a woman hater, and he would be better off posting on a liberal site, where he would be in agreement with those who continuously hate and trash our best conservative and pro life candidates. He is a poster who chronically has a reading comprehension problem. Nobody here is suggesting that Bristol's situation is good or optimal, as I and many others have explained to him. I don't know why he retreats to that fantasy, except that it gives him a reason to springboard into his rote criticisms.
Now, Bristol is saying that abstinence is a good strategy, but that's still not good enough for him because he has much more fun with his floating standards of conduct and expectations. The fact is, he will never be satisfied and will always find something to be critical about.
We know where he stands - the thing is, he stands pretty much alone. And that's a good thing. Most people around here, after all, aren't sympathetic to his position on this matter. That's a good thing again, and he remains relatively alone clinging to his fixed position. Posters like him give FR a bad name.
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