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To: miss marmelstein
>> I have a long memory on how women candidates and politicians and diplomats are treated <<

Fine. Nothing wrong with that, so far as it goes.

But it seems to me that you're falling into a pattern of circular reasoning:

Step one: You say women politicians have usually (or always?) been treated unfairly both by the media and by conservatives.

Step two: Next you indicate a belief that Bachmann and Palin now are being treated badly by many conservatives, both the pundits and many posters on FR.

Step three: You then seem to conclude -- ergo -- that the treatment now received by Michelle and Sarah is irrefutable proof that women politicians will usually or always be treated unfairly by conservatives, a line of reasoning that merely takes us straight back to your initial observation, and which goes so far as to transform that observation into an unshakeable assumption that can't be falsified by any conceivable amount of evidence.

You certainly have every right to your beliefs, even those beliefs may be based on circular logic.

But we'll just have to agree to disagree, because I don't find your argument the least bit persuasive.

131 posted on 09/14/2011 8:40:21 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: Hawthorn

Well, whenever the word “ergo” starts cropping up in a Free Republic post, my eyes tend to glaze over.

Yes, let’s agree to disagree. I didn’t think I’d change your mind, lol!


132 posted on 09/14/2011 8:47:50 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Run, Sarah, Run! Please!)
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