Another Instructive Discussion

[thombergeron]

I tend to prefer actual data to off-the-cuff narratives from easily confused people like Tom Friedman and Carly Fiorina. And Lifetime Television released a poll last Thursday showing Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney by 12 points among women. So....

[robertlouis]

Personally I'm not a social conservative,

Interesting, and I don't doubt your sincerity. But how do you reconcile that stance with the GOP's race to the right on issues like gay marriage, gay rights generally, equal pay and the most emotive of them all, abortion, where there is a sizable lobby for banning it completely regardless of the circumstances?

When people like me carelessly drop the word "taliban" when referring to the GOP, it's mostly unjust, except where it comes to their atavistic approach to social issues. The US is dangerously close to reversing the positive trends in gender and sexual issues that has typified the shift in most other developed societies in the last forty/fifty years. Is that truly what you want to see? Because with a Romney/Ryan ticket, you surely will.

[Prospero]

... answer came there none..... and I guess to fakes like OMK this is a rice worth paying.

[thombergeron]

... answer came there none..... and I guess to fakes like OMK this is a rice worth paying.

For me, what most undermines OMK's posts is his total inability to present an original thought. It's just all cut-and-pastes from the latest hysterical right-wing blogs with an "LMFAO" tacked on somewhere. It's pointless to try to engage him in any kind of substantive debate. He lacks the intellectual capacity to consider and respond to a contrary point.

This kind of unquestioning credulity is actually a point of pride among a certain strain of American conservative. They call themselves, "Dittoheads." It's weird.