There are quite a few of you Perry-dernaged bots out there.
Why don't you stop sniping from the darkness and tell us who you support? Unless you have someone top support, your sniping makes no sense.
Stop being pusillanimous cowards and TELL US WHO YOU SUPPORT
This demand always puzzles me, whether it comes from Perry supporters, Palin supporters (like me), Bachmann, Cain, or any-other-candidate supporters.
It's a strawman. The discussion isn't about who one supports, the discussion is about whether or not a perceived flaw in a candidate is real or not.
I will admit that with particularly vitriolic Palin detractors, I'm tempted to fling back at them: "So, Mr. know-it-all, just who do you support??" until I stop to think: why am I asking that? Answer: Because I'm being defensive. I like offense better.
Now I know that the behavior of a candidate's supporters speaks volumes about the candidate, so I could tell myself that it's a good reason to ask of someone who's knocking my candidate, "Well then, who do you support, bub?" But because the answer doesn't matter, the person can easily lie with a careless shrug. CASE IN POINT -- a week or so ago, a Palin detractor was posting a popular falsehood (the so-called "oil windfall profits tax", which is a myth) as a "factual" reason not so support her. Someone (not me) demanded of him, "Well, then, who do YOU support?" and he said he was just a poor ol' DeMint supporter.
Now, I knew that in fact, this poster had FOR YEARS been posting that same lie about Palin. He wasn't posting that lie now because he was hoping DeMint could get a leg up -- he was posting that lie for the same reason he'd been posting it for the past two years: he doesn't want anyone to support Palin.
So, again -- I don't care who someone supports. I DO care about the validity of the charges they're making against a candidate, whether it's my candidate or not.