I don't think Perlstein did very well, even considering how badly he was outnumbered.
He took a brutal pounding on the rather obscure Veteran's funding issue in the early rounds, and never really got his legs under him after that.
If there was a ref, he should have called it right there, instead of letting it drag on and on like that. It was painful to watch that sort of brutality.
Darn I missed it. I miss locking horns with liberals.
"I have always admired conservatives for their political idealism, acumen, stalwartness, and devotion. I have also admired some of their ideas--especially the commitment to distrusting grand social schemes, and the deep sense of the inherent flaws in human nature. (To my mind the best minds in the liberal tradition have encompassed these ideals, while still maintaining that robust social reform is still possible and desirable. My favorite example is the Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, author of the Serenity Prayer and a great liberal Democrat.)"
Idealism can be confused with dogma, which is why conservatives prefer the term, 'realist'.
Stalwartness and devotion, that sounds to me to be party loyalty, based on his assumption that liberals are better in his opinion. Conservatives believe in placing country above party. The party's sole purpose is to serve the country. That's the only reason to even take a party seriously. The 'long-term view' of helping your party destroy the other through short term harm to the nation is placing party above country. I call that a quick fix for short term power. Their 'long-term view' is my short term view. FReegards....
I don't think Perlstein did very well, even considering how badly he was outnumbered.It's hard to do well without facts. However, I'd like to see a bigger contest. One between DU and FR. On some kind of neutral ground.
I like the fact that posts are generally restricted in FR so that all manner of pests and insects don't come flying in the window.
But I'd also like to see some kind of organized online debate between the lunatics on the left and ourselves.
Maybe on a single thread, something like was done here?