Right -- research to support a conclusion he's already drawn.
It's amazing to me how unshakable people are in their political/ideological beliefs. It's like it's hardwired after a certain age. I consider it almost a miracle when people change their minds on these sorts of things.
I dunno...I had a lot of liberal ideas when I was young. The Carter administration was either shock therapy or the programming hadn't took..or I just wasn't liberal enought to begin with.
I must say I've never experienced a stranger debate though. Here we had a "proud leftist" who claims not to like Kerry, trying to use debunked rumors and half truths against Bush to convince us Kerry's the better man for the job, while simultaneously claiming we've become shallow, powermad whining, Bush zealots.
In fact, I learned nothing to convince me Kerry's the better man for any job, let alone leader of the free world, never discovered in what way we've morphed into powermad Boshbots, nor got an answer to my question asking in what way we're shallow or whiners.
I didn't even learn any new DNC talking points. I was reminded of every one of Mr. Perlstein's talking points at the DemCon.