Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: papertyger
It rather reminds my of how my mom used to tell me never to throw the first punch...of course, not knowing a damned thing about fistfights, she didn't know the one that draws first blood is usually the winner.

Again with the violence analogy!

Look, if folks like you insist on pretending that honest political debate is a war, and those who disagree with us are the enemy, then so be it.

We just disagree, friend. People like *me* are somehow able to win debates by sticking to facts and reason. If you lack that ability, then I s'pose I can't fault you for looking for another way to vent. It won't bring you success, but if it's all you got . . .

Folks like yourself and Ann in the last election when talking to anti-war Ds called them "Traitors" and "cowards" and such. Folks like myself would instead focus on saying things like, "We lost 6,000 dead, 25,000 wounded in 30 days of fighting for Iwo Jima, and that was a victory!"

Guess which approach is more effective? If you want to be effective, then measure your words. If you want to just vent, then name-call.

Up to you, it makes no never mind to me. I am who I am, you are who you are.

452 posted on 03/10/2007 6:29:44 PM PST by Dominic Harr (Conservative: The "ant", to a liberal's "grasshopper".)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 451 | View Replies ]


To: Dominic Harr
Again with the violence analogy!

Look, if folks like you insist on pretending that honest political debate is a war, and those who disagree with us are the enemy, then so be it.

The problem is folks like you insist on pretending it's an honest political debate.

453 posted on 03/10/2007 6:38:00 PM PST by papertyger
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 452 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson