WTC911 and melas were wrong as per one liberal Jew and one conservative Jew.
Period.
Both used democratic/MSM talking points against Palin. I believe both admitted to disliking Palin. That is their choice. It is a free country. But, forgive me for repeating myself, their usage of democratic/msm talking points against a fellow conservative is disgusting and offensive. Whether they are “better” representatives of conservatives than others is your opinion and you have a right to your opinion. You did make a good point about echo chambers. Free Republic does NOT need fellow FRiends to echo the democratic/msm talking points to attack conservative leadership. It's poor strategy. Maybe WTC911 and Melas should follow Reagan's example, “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.”
Actually, I contest the notion that Levin disagrees with me. He hasn’t addressed my point. He’s said that it wasn’t inaccurate to compare it to blood libel, and I don’t disagree. It was however, a politically stupid thing to say, and demonstrably so.
If you would but bother to read my statements, I don’t believe that Palin intended to be inflammatory. I’m not saying that there isn’t a certain allegorical correctness in the use of blood libel. What I am saying is that even a journeyman politician running for a state office should have been smart enough to realize that it could and would be easily spun, and that the resulting political fallout was going to be substantial. Yet we have a woman who allegedly aspires not to the state assembly, but to the highest office in the land, who wasn’t quick enough to avoid this potential landmine.
I repeat myself: Palin’s conservatism, values, and intentions are not in question with me. Her intelligence however is very much question. A politician of even average intelligence in her place could have easily made the same charge while avoiding the incendiary phrase that is being so easily used against her. There must have been a thousand ways to challenge the spurious accusations that she was in any way responsible for the shooting in Tucson that would have politically savvy, yet she chose none of them.
I repeat, she’s not ready for prime time. Let her go on to become a Coulteresque bomb thrower. She’s suited for such, but not to be the leader of the free world.
2. I think for myself, always have. I do not watch, read or listen to MSM in any format. My opinions about palin and, in this case, the stupidity of using this phrase are completely my own.
Never speak ill of any Republican? That must be you I see always bringing this up on the trash Rudy, Mitt, Rove, Huck....threads. No, what you want is that every freeper be in lock step with you and never dispute the wisdom of St. Sarah.
And, as to my point on this Blood Libel topic, I'll say it again because you clearly missed it the first twelve times....
It was stupid because it gave her opponents a hinge-point upon which to turn the argument back on her. The very fact that out of a three page statement all enybody is talking about is those two words proves my point.
Finally, I could not care one bit less than I do if you were "offended" and "disgusted" by my expression of my opinion.