It's not unusual for a thread about one of our own GOPers to generate more negativity and animus than an Obama thread.
And I wasn't talking about you, DoughtyOne. I know you are a measured and well reasoned poster even when we disagree. My comment is more directed to the kids, or better yet, those with the childish mentality that seem to flock to any thread where something negative is posted about Sarah Palin. Has anyone called her a RINO yet? If they haven't, it's probably going to happen sooner rather than later.
I'm not opposed to expressing our dissatisfaction and telling Sarah when we don't think she is doing the right thing. I don't think she should support or campaign for McCain. McCain needs to go and Sarah should be aware of our opposition to McCain – no question about that. What I don't like is seeing the Sarah haters coming out of the woodwork and posting their nonsensical vanities designed to diminish Sarah and her supporters based on the latest media rumor.
Victoria, I believe Sarah’s comment was fairly straight up. I think it was a mistake and I have said so.
There is this dynamic around here at times, and I don’t necessarily think it’s either side’s fault. In fact I’d say most of us are on the same side, we’re just having a disagreement here.
At any rate, don’t you think that sometimes the defense of someone who has done something wrong, causes an exponentially larger amount of attention to be drawn to the mistake.
Seriously, don’t you think it would have been far better on this thread to just admit that the 100% comment was a mistake and move on? Instead we had people swoop in to ‘protect Sarah’, and all of a sudden it was a full highly visible defense/attack of Palin.
It should never have grown to what it did, a nearly 400 post thread. I think the defense of something that is wrong, is sometimes the worst thing a supporter can do.
How many people would have even seen this, if it had been acknowledged as a mistake, and we all could have moved on.
Thank you for your nice comments regarding my posts. I appreciate it. I appreciate your willingness to discuss the matter calmly too.