I understand that folks are blaring on both sides Jedi....and if we are each reflective and soul searching enough, we get when we have gone too far. But if we wait on others to relent before we even begin to reflect on our own actions, what good does that do? You and others defending Akin have had some good points but your stubborn refusal to give others the benefit of doubt in their concern for our country is not helping matters at all.
All we can do is start with ourselves. We can’t control others. This election is not all about Akin or social issues and neither is it about simply fiscal issues. It is about the whole shooting match this time....it is simply about liberty or tyranny. Pick your battles.....but we have to win the war. Our very survival as a republic is at stake FRiend.
I’m not giving Emperor Palpatine the benefit of the doubt. He is a professed libertarian who has been openly hostile and insulting on this forum to the Christian conservative wing of the party. There’s no doubt to benefit from in his case.
I’m not accusing other Akin critics of anything inparticular, other than some who are clearly just spewing talking points without having thought things through. I’m just trying to point out where I think their reasoning is flawed.
And I refuse to feel any self-doubt at all about defending a good man and a good conservative Congressman like Akin against a hostile barrage of attacks like few have ever seen in politics. Rarely do you see both parties attacking one person so intensely. I hate to think how anyone would feel under that kind of unrelenting barrage of criticism, knowing that they did nothing wrong under either God’s law or the law of the land. It appears a lot of conservatives are acting emotionally, out of fear that they’re going to lose this election. Bad things happen when a mob of people are motivated by fear, things like the Salem witch trials.