A sailboat with no wind or rudder is a consistent thing. Consistently adrift.
You can't lie to the crew that there's wind in the sail when they can see for themselves that the sails are slack.
“A sailboat with no wind or rudder is a consistent thing. Consistently adrift.”
That’s pure sophistry, and in my opinion beneath your dignity. Either I’ve been consistent or I’m adrift; you can’t have it both ways. If for four years I’ve been consistently anti-birther, your sailboat metaphor is inapt.
“You can’t lie to the crew that there’s wind in the sail when they can see for themselves that the sails are slack.”
Now you’re mixing metaphors. Before I had no rudder and was therefore adrift, now I’m without wind and lack impetus? It could very well be both, but why bring that up now? I might have thought you were building an argument, not just piling things on willy-nilly. What’s next, my hull is breached, the captain has scurvy, and a storm’s a brewin’? You’ve lost course yourself, it seems.
“Consistently adrift”
This bugs me so I’m gonna stay on it. If by arguing I have no rudder and am adrift you didn’t mean to apply I was inconsistent, what did it mean? What was the point of bringing it up? What are you getting at?