GOP'ish candidates

[smc]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

Please read again the first two words in the block you quoted from me. I am only stating my thoughts.

But perhaps you're right. Perhaps every last serviceman/woman is fine with gays in the military and therefore there is no one who would be distracted by them. And perhaps those overly militant bastards who beat gays and transgendered people would all steer clear of the military.

Here's what you actually wrote:

"I thought DADT was a good compromise between allowing gays in the military, and taking into consideration the reality that an openly gay person in the military, right or wrong, is going to be a distraction and at worse will put gay servicemen/women's lives in danger."

Anyone who knows how to diagram a sentence can tell you that what you are referring to as a "thought" is DADT as a compromise. The rest of what you state is not presented as your thought, but as a claim to be "reality."

So, either say that you can't back up your claim about "reality" or acknowledge that you mis-wrote. But don't hide behind a lexical argument that holds no water.

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by smc

So, either say that you can't back up your claim about "reality" or acknowledge that you mis-wrote. But don't hide behind a lexical argument that holds no water.

I'm fine, thanks. But if I need an editor for my posts you'll be the first one I'll call.

But feel free to claim that every last serviceman/woman is fine with gays in the military and that overly militant bastards who beat gays and transgendered people would all steer clear of the military.

[smc]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

I'm fine, thanks. But if I need an editor for my posts you'll be the first one I'll call.

But feel free to claim that every last serviceman/woman is fine with gays in the military and that overly militant bastards who beat gays and transgendered people would all steer clear of the military.

As usual, you prove yourself to be nothing more than a dissembling troll.

[ila]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

...I thought DADT was a good compromise between allowing gays in the military, and taking into consideration the reality that an openly gay person in the military, right or wrong, is going to be a distraction and at worse will put gay servicemen/women's lives in danger...

Originally Posted by smc

Here's what you actually wrote:

"I thought DADT was a good compromise between allowing gays in the military, and taking into consideration the reality that an openly gay person in the military, right or wrong, is going to be a distraction and at worse will put gay servicemen/women's lives in danger."

Anyone who knows how to diagram a sentence can tell you that what you are referring to as a "thought" is DADT as a compromise. The rest of what you state is not presented as your thought, but as a claim to be "reality."...

That's what I also understood Tracy's post to mean.

[smc]

Originally Posted by ila

That's what I also understood Tracy's post to mean.

Thank you, ila. And it must really be Tracy's belief, because given the opportunity to recant, Tracy passed. Of course, the imperative to post like a troll may have overwhelmed reason at that moment.

[transjen]

Bachman is a zero term president
Bachman is teaparty wackado and needs a change of address form to show her new home at the funny farm
Bachman is very good at finger pointing and complaining and laying all the blame at the DEMS but she never offers any ideas on what she would do to fix things no wonder the GOP love her
Her only answer is continue with the failed policies of W which were the continuing of his fathers failed policies who was continuing the failed policies of Reagan who was nothing then a two bit brain dead movie actor no wonder this country is so screwed up
Jerseygirl Jen

[smc]

Originally Posted by transjen

... Bachman is teaparty wackado and needs a change of address form to show her new home at the funny farm ...

She's beyond "wackado," Jen. Remember in 2004, when she said that if a teacher showed a picture from "The Lion King" and then said, "Do you know that the music for this movie was written by a gay man?," the teacher would be participating in the "normalization" of homosexuality, which would lead to "desensitization." The message, claimed Bachmann, would be: "I'm better at what I do, because I'm gay."

In 2008, she said -- revealing her tremendous grasp of science -- that "carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn?t even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas."

But my favorite Bachmannism is when she testified to the Minnesota State Senate in 2005 that abolishing the minimum wage would create jobs. "Literally," she said, "if we took away the minimum wage -- if conceivably it was gone -- we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level." Putting aside that reducing the minimum wage has been shown by economists to be contractionary, it really speaks to the kind of United States she wants: "jobs at whatever level," with no protection.

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by transjen

Bachman is teaparty wackado

The phrase "teaparty wackado" is redundant. The one word offers the same information as the other.

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

The phrase "teaparty wackado" is redundant. The one word offers the same information as the other.

Oh the irony. Calling something redundant, and then defining redundant.

[smc]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

Oh the irony. Calling something redundant, and then defining redundant.

Oh, the typicality ... moving on to the next topic to avoid confronting having been called out for the previous topic.

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

Oh the irony. Calling something redundant, and then defining redundant.

This would be funnier were it not as smc said: you are using me to avoid responding to smc's challenge.

[franalexes]

Unlike the rest of this forum, there seems to be no serious discussion here.

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

This would be funnier were it not as smc said: you are using me to avoid responding to smc's challenge.

He may not have liked my response, (and by default you didn't like it either) but I did respond.