Your condescending tone is not lost,,congratulations.
You can be as sneaky and fraudulent as you want and misrepresent yourself in whatever way suits you.
Winning at "any cost" is not a value I share. I associate that type of thinking with the 'RATS. I am sure there are a ton of DEM "get out the vote" sites you may want to visit and misrepresent yourself on.
I don't even see the clever value here. But hey, I'm just a pretty simple Texan who doesn't use words like "obdurant." I am soooooo grateful to have an intellectual such as yourself put me in my place because I happen to disagree. You are soooo superior.
I'm sorry, of course, you find someone disagreeing with you in a quiet, reasonable tone to be "condescending." In all candor, however; that reveals a good deal more about you than it does me.
Winning at "any cost" is not a value I share.
Your unflagging (and inexplicable) devotion to the notion that stopping fraud is analogous to committing fraud is already well established, at this point; and has been effectively gainsaid, repeatedly. No need to keep chewing the same cud over and over again, really.
But hey, I'm just a pretty simple Texan who doesn't use words like "obdurant." I am soooooo grateful to have an intellectual such as yourself put me in my place because I happen to disagree. You are soooo superior.
Similarly, I'm sorry my having used a fairly simple word such as "obdurant" -- not quite the exotic bird you seem to feel it is, really -- left you feeling (apparently) either threateened or inadequate. Possibly you could lobby Jim to post a list of all the words you personally find too high-falutin' (or what-have-you), and convince him to flatly forbid us from using any/all of them, from this day forward. And good luck with that, certainly.
I don't even see the clever value here.
Please believe me when I hasten to assure you that I have absolutely, positively NO doubt of that.