RE: Re: Re: The Doctor Says

"He's the pot calling the kettle black, my man. It seems to me that his whole point was to illustrate how 'the opposition' also used a political technique that we all know 'his side' mastered first."

There is your mistake: You assumed the Neumayr is a toady of the Republicans, so you offered a counter by a toady of the Democrats. Neumary is definitely not a fan of the current incarnation of the GOP. He takes Republicans to task fairly often in his articles. But aside from that, the article never attempted to make a "we're better than you" argument. It was simply an observation of Democrat hypocrisy against which you still have not offered a substantive argument.

"I was simply referring to yet another example of a widespread consensus..."

Umm, that would be a no. Maybe a widespread concensus within the circles you inhabit, but the broader populace is more ambivalent due to either misinformation (propagated by both sides of the debate) or lack of information.

"The Republican Party chose these battles, and now they'll have to fight 'em."

That's patently ridiculous. There is an old saying: "It takes two to tango." Getting into a discussion of who chose the battles would be as fruitless and pointless as...well...as quoting Linda Brinson.