Originally Posted By: thedoctor
And, face it, G-man's not going to admit that her argument is sad and pathetic.


Does he ever? Which in itself is sad and pathetic. It excuses and in it's own way, condones this type of behavior and rhetoric.

And I have to disagree, but when the dialouge gets diverted to personal attack, as it ALWAYS does, (read my 1st posting on this subject), then it does become the issue. Whether we want it to be so or not.

Yeah, it's a distraction from more substantive arguments about the program itself and about American health care in general. But these repeated smear tactics against ideological foes of these people do not deserve to stand unchallenged and uncommeented on. Otherwise they'll just go on and on and it'll be like giving these people license to swiftboat and steamroll anyone they happen to disagree with.

And as was the case with John Kerry's infuriating high road silence, not responding to the right's attacks leaves the impression among the general public that there is actually merit and truth to the attack.