Yes, yes, you've pointed out before that anyone who looks to works with any just-off-center-left-leaning bent whatsoever is deliberately either misleading himself or others, probably both. I don't buy it, and my reasons are a matter of public record. To recap, as long as the facts are there, one can cite away. When the facts are distorted, that's another matter. Determining the factual content of the work is not a simple litmus test involving whether or not it is "fair" to extremists. Citing sources should not be exposed to well poisoning.
To believe that he was courting racists in coded language would mean that he is intentionally nuking the rest of his week's campaign schedule.
Or injecting plausible deniability. Which ever comes first.
Think about how illogical that is, from a campaigning standpoint and from a personal standpoint. It doesn't make sense, logically or otherwise.
That's kinda the point of campaign strategies. They don't have to "make sense;" they only have to work. And, lets remember, it did. GWB's decision to suggest that John McCain's daughter might be his natural child in South Carolina? Despicable, but it worked.
I am amazed that something so blatant can be denied by you so blithely. But, please, don't let me stop you. Continue to insist that mentioning a favorable position on States' Rights in a region so emotionally charged by our fairly recent history is simply to discuss "economics." I leave it to others to judge who here has the more solid argument.
Since I mentioned wells earlier, keep digging. The well you're poisoning is the rhetorical hole you're digging for yourself right now!
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Date: 15/10/13 00:33 (UTC)To believe that he was courting racists in coded language would mean that he is intentionally nuking the rest of his week's campaign schedule.
Or injecting plausible deniability. Which ever comes first.
Think about how illogical that is, from a campaigning standpoint and from a personal standpoint. It doesn't make sense, logically or otherwise.
That's kinda the point of campaign strategies. They don't have to "make sense;" they only have to work. And, lets remember, it did. GWB's decision to suggest that John McCain's daughter might be his natural child in South Carolina? Despicable, but it worked.
I am amazed that something so blatant can be denied by you so blithely. But, please, don't let me stop you. Continue to insist that mentioning a favorable position on States' Rights in a region so emotionally charged by our fairly recent history is simply to discuss "economics." I leave it to others to judge who here has the more solid argument.
Since I mentioned wells earlier, keep digging. The well you're poisoning is the rhetorical hole you're digging for yourself right now!