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Originally posted by bilmore
If there's a bright spot out of all of this, it's that it has fostered continued polite and respectful dialogue about the issues. I know that I am always more inclined to give a listen to someone who is respectful than to someone who calls people in my party stupid, evil ass-fuckers over and over and over and . . .
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I really feel badly for Michael Schiavo, who has been thrust onto the national stage by other people and trashed repeatedly. He didn't ask for this.
And I think the people who are exploiting this in the worst way are not Republicans
per se, although their interests are aligned with the GOP right now and a quite a few GOP politicians are rushing to curry favor with them. The most fervid cultural conservatives have a commitment to their groups -- e.g., pro-life groups -- that transcends their relationship with the party. So, if you read my message carefully, you'd have seen that I said that "Tom DeLay's new pals" were doing the ass-fucking, and that I did not attribute it to the GOP. You drew that inference yourself. DeLay himself didn't really jump on the bandwagon until a few days ago.
