--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11 > <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > -snip- > > > I still wouldn't vote for her, and there's no > > > question that she isn't presidential material. > > > But the sheer meanness with which she's been > > > attacked is unwarranted and inexcusable. > > > > > politics is a dirty business because part of the strategy > > is always to paint your opposition as untrustworthy and > > incompetent. if the democrats had played nice with palin > > while she was happily drumming up hatred against obama, > > who knows what would have happened? > > So you're saying that if Republicans are dishonest > and mean, that justifies Democrats being dishonest > and mean too? > > Sorry, I can't go along with that. If we can't win > by attacking the opposition on the basis of its > *real* deficiencies--and Palin had more than enough-- > why the hell do we think we have the right to ask > people to vote for Democrats? How are we any better > than the Republicans? > > > to call the democrats' actions unwarranted and inexcusable, > > and attributing those same actions to meanness is naive. > > I'm referring (as I suspect you're well aware) to > crap like calling her a "bimbo" and worse, and > pretending she's stupid, and ccusing her of being > a "thief" because of the clothing purchases, and a > "religious fanatic," when she's obviously none of > the above. > you suspect me of things which are not mine. i don't condone name calling, and was not focused on that. when i look at who is doing what to whom on the national political scene, i stay away from blogs and clearly partisan sources, and try to see how each party comes across to the average voter in for example, nebraska or new york or ohio.
i am talking about legitimate or should i say -more- legitimate attempts to discredit her, like the clothes fiasco, or her dumb answers to questions. now it may be only a partial truth to emphasize those things to make her look worse than she actually is (though i personally doubt it), but that's politics.
