[going hot]

No my friend, I do not direct to you. I only remind you of your constant posts that a whole bunch of people must be wrong for trump to be right.

I comment that there must be a whole lot more of them wrong ones lately.

Not an attack on you per se, but a comment on your own previous posts.

Perhaps I mistook you for another poster?

Nah, the distinguished southern gentleman as your moniker is the dead giveaway.

[nathanbedford]

Megan Kelly recited actual facts that any reasonable person would concede tend to show that Donald Trump is arguably a misogynist running for election against the party that accuses its opponents of being misogynists.

Donald Trump does not deny the words, he admits them, he does not defend himself by denying the implication of the words, he defends himself by attacking political correctness. In effect, he says that those who bring the subject up are wrong. Trump supporters in this forum have aped Trump's tactic of deflection by ignoring the substance of the charges and attacking the messenger.

By attacking the messenger rather than defending Donald Trump on the substance, one adds one more name to the list of people who must be wrong for Donald Trump to be right. This has become a very, very long list indeed. If I say that someone's subjective impression of the debate is wrong that is quite a different matter than assaulting the person's integrity for even bringing the issue up. That is a Trump tactic.

Shooting the messenger, attacking ad hominem, is something quite different than disagreeing about an opinion or impression on the merits.