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  • Feb 18, 2013, 03:03 PM
    tomder55
    Obama paid lip service to that last week in Chi-town
    Video: Barack Obama: 'I wish I'd had a father who was around' - Telegraph
    Guess that was hate speech too .

    It was a rare moment when a lib spoke candidly of the consequences of their poliices.
  • Feb 18, 2013, 03:39 PM
    Wondergirl
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by speechlesstx View Post
    The right question is why doesn't the left promote what is proven to work?

    No. The right question is why doesn't the right get off its behind and promote some useful ideas instead of constantly moaning about what they consider bad ones being pushed by the left?
  • Feb 18, 2013, 03:41 PM
    talaniman
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by speechlesstx View Post
    Asking the wrong question, I'm not going down that road to strawmanville. The right question is why doesn't the left promote what is proven to work?

    Divorce is a strawman argument? More like reality since half the marriages in America end in divorce. And that's not accounting for the relationships that end in kids,but no relationship.

    So tell me other than controlling people and making them stay together, what do we do with them? Why doesn't the right recognize that reality has to be dealt with, and not swept under the rug while you doggedly stick to your solutions that may have good intentions but is not the ultimate solution.
  • Feb 18, 2013, 03:45 PM
    talaniman
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    Obama paid lip service to that last week in Chi-town
    Video: Barack Obama: 'I wish I'd had a father who was around' - Telegraph
    Guess that was hate speech too .

    It was a rare moment when a lib spoke candidly of the consequences of their poliices.

    Maybe in your own right wing world but he wasn't lamenting policy, he was lamenting the truth of his own existence. I guess you hear what you want.
  • Feb 18, 2013, 03:53 PM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Wondergirl View Post
    No. The right question is why doesn't the right get off its behind and promote some useful ideas instead of constantly moaning about what they consider bad ones being pushed by the left?

    You act as if the right has abandoned its dedication to the very things you said you wanted to promote. It has done no such thing but is marginalized and mocked for "clinging to old-fashioned values" and "living in the past" blah, blah, blah. Your fight over the proposed solutions you suggest today is with the left for undermining those values. You should point your "family values and God/mom/apple pie and education improvements that actually work" argument at them, we still believe in that but that message is not going to get through the liberal media and academic echo chambers.
  • Feb 18, 2013, 03:55 PM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    Divorce is a strawman argument? More like reality since half the marriages in America end in divorce. And thats not accounting for the relationships that end in kids,but no relationship

    So tell me other than controlling people and making them stay together, what do we do with them? Why doesn't the right recognize that reality has to be dealt with, and not swept under the rug while you doggedly stick to your solutions that may have good intentions but is not the ultimate solution..

    I love it when you validate my point, and right on cue.
  • Feb 18, 2013, 04:19 PM
    talaniman
    So we agree your good intenions aren't enough to produce good results? That's a good start.
  • Feb 18, 2013, 04:31 PM
    Wondergirl
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by speechlesstx View Post
    that message is not going to get through the liberal media and academic echo chambers.

    And so you are going to crawl into a corner wimpering?

    Want me to list the family and personal values that the right espouses that are very important and would even be acknowledged by the left as good?
  • Feb 18, 2013, 06:47 PM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    So we agree your good intenions aren't enough to produce good results? Thats a good start.

    Not at all, you haven't gotten past the straw man that we don't understand reality.
  • Feb 18, 2013, 06:49 PM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Wondergirl View Post
    And so you are going to crawl into a corner wimpering?

    When respond in a relevant manner we can talk.
  • Feb 18, 2013, 07:05 PM
    Wondergirl
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by speechlesstx View Post
    When respond in a relevant manner we can talk.

    So far, all I've heard is wimpering and accusations, but no plans to solidify and spread conservative ideas and values.
  • Feb 18, 2013, 08:02 PM
    paraclete
    Sounds like the right side is divided against itself
  • Feb 18, 2013, 10:08 PM
    talaniman
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Wondergirl View Post
    And so you are going to crawl into a corner wimpering?

    Want me to list the family and personal values that the right espouses that are very important and would even be acknowledged by the left as good?

    Go for it. Its got to be better than the hollering and dismissing everything as a strawman argument.
  • Feb 19, 2013, 03:42 AM
    tomder55
    add to the list the polices of the left that undermine the values they claim to support .
  • Feb 19, 2013, 05:12 AM
    talaniman
    Add them yourself.
  • Feb 19, 2013, 06:57 AM
    excon
    Hello:

    Quote:

    Changing hearts and minds means convincing them that voting for positions we believe in is in their best interests.
    Quote:

    The right question is why doesn't the left promote what is proven to work?
    I've been reading..

    In MY view, before we talk about a GOP Hispanic female running for president, we should have the discussion about immigration reform.. The right wing, of the right wing party isn't going to go for ANY law that leaves ANY illegal immigrant IN this country. I think that'll put the kibosh on immigration reform and ANY hopes the GOP has for national office.

    You talk about "what's proven to work", and "positions that are IN their best interests", yet STAYING in this country is in their interest FIRST and FOREMOST..

    On other threads, the MOST I've gotten from you, is the concession from tom that once the right wing demands have been met, he's ready to NEGOTIATE whether they can stay or not... THAT position will NOT get a right winger elected, and I think his views represent what your ordinary right winger thinks... And, they're NOT about to accept 11 million new Democrats..

    Therefore, the candidacy of Susan Martinez is DEAD in the water BEFORE it ever gets underway.

    Excon
  • Feb 19, 2013, 07:07 AM
    paraclete
    Ex what you are really saying is the GOP is outnumbered and their support base will decline
  • Feb 19, 2013, 07:12 AM
    tomder55
    Hard to compete against freebees
  • Feb 19, 2013, 07:18 AM
    excon
    Hello again, clete:

    I'm saying they're faced with changing a long held position, or giving up national office and becoming a regional party..

    I DO agree with tom's original sentiments, however. The Mexican interlopers are conservative in their lives, their religion and their politics... They're NATURAL born Republicans.. But, once they realized that the right wing just wants to THROW THEM OUT, all that other stuff doesn't matter.

    excon
  • Feb 19, 2013, 07:25 AM
    excon
    Hello again, tom:

    Quote:

    hard to compete against freebees
    Couple things. It's not true, and it's a losing position.

    You know, the right wing can't remember what went on BEFORE Obama came on the scene... Now, you're going to forget what happened during our last election...

    As a lefty, I'm THRILLED with it.

    Excon

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