| Posted: 18 April 2010 at 2:49pm | IP Logged | 9
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Look, bud, I said I was done with you, and I am, but let me use your pithy little rant to explain my position:Matthew: I respect Mike O'B. <-- No, you don't. That's something someone says to score "high ground" points in a debate. Instead, you just come off cheap and sleazy.
Matthew: His continual rejoinder of "so vote Republican", however, is as tiresome as it is insulting. <-- Good - you should be insulted. Just as I'm sick of this constant back and forth of "Well, you guys did it too!", while people still support their candidate. It's very simple - if both sides did it, and you're calling someone on it, you're not in a position to make a judgement on it. That's where the line comes from. I wish I could take credit for it, but it's an internet meme.
Matthew: Essentially, he says "If you object to anything about my guy, then you must be one of them, and a pox on your house." <--- Aside from over-reacting to me and misunderstanding my point, this is the "game" I speak of so frequently in my posts. It's not a good "game" but it's how politics works. Tough shit. And by the way - you can not claim any sort of middle ground here - you talk a lot about how you're neither D or R, yet you always support the R arguement. One day you're going to have to come to terms with your Republicanism.
Matthew: And thus, I explore Mike's thesis with my own beliefs. I view life to be important and do not support abortion except in the most extreme need. No home for me with the Democrats. I do not interpret the Second Amendment to indiscriminately allow handguns into every home and I favour strict licensing and gun control. No home for me with the Republicans. <-- So far, so... almost good. Plenty Dems are against Abortion. You recall the mess with Stupak, no? And you'll find some Repubs with reasonable views on guns. Like the guy who took a bullet for Reagan.
Matthew: I want a government committed to activities only government can do, which benefit the common wealth and not special interests with the deepest pockets, and elected officials who do not spend like drunken sailors in an attempt to curry electoral favour. No home for me in either party. <--- And the train goes off the rails. You want activities that only Government can do - that's the TeaBag talking point - they take care of the Military, Police, Fire, Roads, Schools, Bridges and let free market sort out the rest. That's Republican. The rest you put in about being responsible? Everyone wants that. Matthew: Mike, wouldn't it be better to have people of principle in office rather than just voting for them because they have an R or a D behind their name? When I managed candidates back in Canada, I worked for Liberals and Conservatives. (The party was then called the Progressive Conservatives; wouldn't Glenn Beck love that?) Party mattered far less to me than person. It still does. I hope it always will.<--- NO. No, no no no NO No No NO NO nO and No. I don't give two shits about the character of a politician. I'm not interested in passing that sort of judgement. I am interested in that politician working on bills and laws that reflect the type of government that I'm interested in. If the R was a clean cut guy with a wife and kids and the D was foot-fucking a crippled dog's mouth while lying in a giant vat of AIDS, I'd still vote for the D because I could not vote for a candidate who supports the policies of R. It really is that easy. Really. I do not believe in the Republican position. It is not close to the Democrats position, and there is no issue that would get me to vote for a Republican. The belief system is totally opposite. I really am done debating you. I will not stand for people talking down to me - you've played that hand a few too many times lately. I get that my posts can be ranting and nutty, but you, Sir, are in no position to judge me. I'm done with you and your "I'm not a Republican, but I support everything about Republicans, and sniff sniff, I'm so smarter than you, even when my logic doesn't make sense" posts. I'm done with you playing the game and refusing to acknowledge it - you called someone else out for doing the exact same thing you did recently - you made a statement, someone tried to parse it and play dumb to bait you and you called them on it, and I thought - "My God - that's EXACTLY what he does to my posts. The man isn't just a crumb, he's a hypocrite, too!" Go climb your thumb, you bum.
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