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Originally posted by Spanky
You don't think I know "how it is perceived". Since the day I started posting to this board I have always called it the "Democrat party". I would be surprised if you could find an exception on any post that I have ever made. Probably a thousand references to the Democrat party and not one to the "Democratic party".
The first time someone noticed it, people seemed to think this was something I came up with on my own. That it was just a whim of mine and criticized me thinking if I just understood the error of my ways I would correct it.
Now some of the people on this board have realized that there are other people that do the same, and are starting to get the idea that this is something that maybe I did not come up with on my own.
But even so, I am being lectured on "how it is perceived" and what people’s reactions will be. And being lectured to so I am aware of what I am doing. The most precious criticisms is when people send me official postings of the Democrat party to show that they call themselves the Democratic party, like this is something I don't know (and if it was something I knew I would change my ways).
Clearly these critics think that they have put a great deal of thought into this and clearly they think I have not. They understand the ramifications of what I am doing, and I don't, so they need to warn me of what might happen.
Did it ever occur to any of you that I know exactly how it is perceived and what sort of reaction it gets? Did it ever occur to any of you that a lot of thought and research has been put into just that question? Did it ever occur to you that the reactions that have occured on this board just reinforce that what is being done here is very effective?
This is the politics board, not the policy board. People on this board talk like they know something about politics, yet they have as about as much political acumen as a frog.
What is amazing is that the people that are the most arrogant, condescending and the quickest to give advice on this board have the least political savvy. There is a whole subtext to political discourse and actions that most of the people on this board are completely deaf to.
I would suggest that you find out what I am doing and why I am doing it before giving me any further advice.
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If I sat here and typed "asshole" in response to every assholish thing said on the board the "s" key on my keyboard would be worn to nothing by now.
Nice to hear that the Rove research machine has fully embraced the idea that being assholes makes for good politics. I never knew that before.
