Posted on 10/14/2005 3:27:53 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
The defenders of Miers, lacking solid arguments, have had to resort to crying "elitism", "sexism", "anti-Bushism", "snobbism", and here, Straw Man arguments.
The Straw Man rhetorical technique is the practice of refuting weaker arguments than one's opponents actually offer. To "set up a straw man" or "set up a straw-man argument" is to create a position that is easy to refute, then attribute that position to your opponent.
One can set up a straw man in several different ways:
1. Present the opponent's argument in weakened form, refute it, and pretend that the original has been refuted.
2. Present a misrepresentation of the opponent's position, refute it, and pretend that the opponent's actual position has been refuted.
3. Present someone who defends a position poorly as the defender, refute that person's arguments, and pretend that every upholder of that position, and thus the position itself, has been defeated.
I'm withholding my decision until the hearings, but if it does come out that she is a cowgirl from Texas, then I will fight like a dog to see her confirmed because I have had it all the way up to my Pennsylvania blue collar with those who's judicial experience allows them to cite foreign laws while studiously ignoring our own.
Great post John.
Dude, that's not Tyrell.
Dude, that's not Tyrell.
Dude, that's not Tyrell.
Well John, you certainly haven't lost your touch! This is an absolute gem.
Great 2 cents, John.
OMG, JH2! You had me ROTFLMAO!
Plus, I mistook your piece at first for being written by R. Emmett Tyrell---the whole time I was thinking, wow, Tyrell actually can write when he gets his dander up! LOL
What a great piece. May it get the circulation it deserves.
Thanks for that clarification. I was surprised at the first report of Garrett's piece.
You did a great job with this one......
I think you need to cut lil' Gary some slack as he most likely hasn't recovered from his attempt at pan cake flipping where he fell off the stage. That fall may have addled him a bit.
Now ol' Pattie had something happen to him back when and I don't know if anyone knows when nor where but he road off into the sunset with his pistols at his side yelling 'ride to the sound of the guns, you fools'.... Didn't sister Bay take on managing some democrats campaign not too long ago?
That was enjoyable .. *L*
Why would I trust someone who is a McCainiac?
Wonderful.....made my night!!! Thank you!!
Speaking of McCainiacs...
Did you see on the ticker at the bottom of the Fox News Channel, that "some Dem. Congress members, led by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, and Sen. Ted Kennedy, are seeking to have criminal charges brought against the Bush Administration over money that was allegedly given to Armstrong Williams, to speak for a bill, and that was never done"...???
Yeppers, they know that Bush's counsel is involved in the SCOTUS race...and just NOW decides to bring charges, saying that Bush used taxpayers money to pay Williams to tout an education program (I believe it was education)....
Another homerun. Well done.
I was referring to the Tyrrell article to which JohnHuang2 links
I think it's ironic to the max that the pundits are criticizing Bush because he expects us to trust him in his nominating someone who shares his philosophy re the constitution while the pundits are asking us to take their word for Miers not being acceptable.
Why don't you square off, mano a mano, with Harriet Miers in a Courtroom, and let's see who is qualified to post a legal opinion (or an opinion on someone's qualifications to issue a legal opinion) and who is not?
My money is not on you.
Well, I was one who was off to the Dark Side, but was brought up short and returned to the fold by the clear and persuasive writing of Harriet Miers herself:
"We have to understand and appreciate that achieving justice for all is in jeopardy before a call to arms to assist in obtaining support for the justice system will be effective. Achieving the necessary understanding and appreciation of why the challenge is so important, we can then turn to the task of providing the much needed support."
Now, I don't know exactly what she said but it seemed so... so... appropriate. Hey, she got to me. I'm back.
IMHO: It is better to have someone that would read the founding documents and not think that they had the intellect and duty to rewrite them.
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