I Don't Remember...
Dean
I don't remember Bill Frist doing any of those things either, John. And I explicitely did support Frist, more than once. And Harry Reid. So you'll have to pardon me for thinking I was included in the rant about the so-called "pretend-doctor-and-make-believe-detective-o-sphere" that was "strangely silent" for all of five minutes. If you're going to issue high-velocity shotgun blasts from 500 feet, expect to hit more than one target.
I also do remember being regularly accused of all those things you list and more, John, by people other than you. I've seen all those things said by Democratic partisans who just want to slam Republican Majority leader Bill Frist--but they are often silent on Democratic Minority Leader Harry Reid who voted the same way. I see those angry, over-the-top, extreme things being thrown in the face of a whole lot of other people who'd never said or done any of those things either.
There are plenty of moonbats and wingnuts on your side of the argument, John, and some of the most surprisingly vicious stuff in my entire life as a blogger (and really man, you gotta know that's saying a lot) has been pointed in my direction just becuase I took the "wrong" side of this.
What tires me most about this discussion is the fact that the most angry and the most inclined to name-calling tend to dominate both sides (and yes, I've lost my temper too). That's really too bad. It makes real discussion all but impossible. It's sort of like the "Bush Lied!!1!1!!" crowd--once you've crossed the line into that sort of claim, all possibility of rational discussion is gone.
I'm closing comments on this. I don't particularly want to discuss it anymore. But I do wish people would start talking to each other and stop fringebaiting — i.e. taking the most angry, over-the-top, lunatic fringe positions and placing them front and center like they're what's typical.
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