Well, Wednesday, I see you've been making bitter personal assumptions about my person and character, in four lengthy posts while I was away from the boards.

Many of the issues you raise have been answered previously, in many prior topics where similar bitter attacks, and relentless assumptions about my alleged "anger" and "hate" of all liberals, despite how many times I've made clear as I did just a few posts ago on page 3 of this very topic, that there are many Democrats in the Senate and Congress that I respect as civil and respectfully offering constructive criticism of the Republican policies.
Ans as I've said also, many times, there are MANY liberals here on the boards ( Chant, JQ, Franta, etc. ) who I have no hostile interaction with, because they don't launch the snottiness and personal attacks on me that a certain 6 or 7 liberal assholes do here.



More specific to you, Wednesday, I would like to respond politely to your questions, but I'm not even sure I should bother responding to you, based on your comments to this and several other previous topics:



You solicit long intelligent well-thought-out answers, and then say you can't be bothered to read them.

And you'll notice in the Reagan topic, as in many other topics, that I was trying very hard to be polite, until I was baited and baited and baited until I finally responded to liberal snottiness.

If you go back to page 2 of this topic where I first posted...
And then read both yours and Animalman's initial responses, I see my initial post as, without rancor, offering a factual correction to a false notion you asserted about McCarthyism allegedly feuling the "In God We Trust" on paper currency, which I politely corrected.
And yours and Animalman's responses to my post were each a full-scale, thermonuclear, deeply personal and angry response to what I initially posted, that solicited an obligatory lengthy response from me. And then Steve T and Disco Steve chimed in.
And even so, I labored to stay on topic and not get personal except for responding to the personal attacks on me.

Far from my alleged "hate", it is clear in your responses that you guys HATE ME, and lash out every time I post to the DEEP THOUGHTS forum.


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As I've said many times and across many topics, I do respect alternative liberal views, when those liberal views are presented respectfully, and without deliberate and emotionally charged distortion of the facts.


I asked you to show me quotes where I've been condescending without provocation. Let me give you another challenge. Accept this as an additional challenge or a replacement, whichever you prefer:

You've been registered on these boards since Sep 12 2001, over three years. Show me a handful of instances, say... ten, where you've been respectful to alternative liberal views. Ten Deep Thoughts threads where someone has said something you don't agree with, you went back and forth, and you remained calm until the end. Ten in three years, that's all I ask.



Geez, what an insulting notion. I challenge you to find 10 of your own.
But as I said on page 2 of this topic, you are civil as often as you are snotty. Would that you held yourself to the same standard.
And I would add that I don't bait and bait with personal attacks to the point that I force them to respond, as you, Animalman and others do.

Here are 10. And there are certainly plenty more:







This next topic, as well as the Ronald Reagan Dies topic (already linked above), are examples where I did my level best to be polite while others made bitter personal insults toward me, and repeatedly tried to bait me into a flame war:

    Coalition forces torture Iraqi prisoners 5-1 to 7-21
    HERE

    Needless to say, there are MANY topics which follow that pattern, where I try to keep it on-topic, or at least polite, but others repeatedly get in my face with personal attacks and compel me to respond at some point.




For similar solicited flame wars, see also:

    "It's not about oil or Iraq..."
    http://www.rkmbs.com/...;o=&fpart=1


    Do liberals HATE the President?
    HERE


    Do liberals HATE America?
    HERE


    Islamic Ignorance(the first topic I exchanged posts with you Wednesday. You will note you got in my face with an unprovoked insult while I was simply addressing the topic)
    HERE






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I believe I've been very clear in my many prior posts in stating exactly what annoys me, in distorted emotionally charged liberal statements.


Wait, you're annoyed by emotionally charged statements? I don't think there were any emotionally charged statements on this thread before your first post. I could be wrong about that, but I remember a sense of calm before this whole motto fiasco.



As I said, I voiced mild annoyance at liberal tactics, and mostly just offered a factual correction in my inital post here.
It was you and Animalman who went ballistic.
And then Steve T. and Disco Steve chimed in, and all of you demonstrate far more anger and outright hatred than I could ever hope to.
It is liberal tactics of name-calling, insults and strawman personal attacks that I dislike, not liberals themselves. If and when you guys ever stop, we'll get along fine.

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Distorted? You do realize, of course, that distortion is a personal point of view. Even if the things we say are based on facts, which sometimes they are and sometimes they're not, our posts--everyone's posts, including yours-- are generally still opinions. That includes every post you've made in this thread. It's not distortion, it's opinion that differs from yours.



I agree that we all have opinions. The level of rancor from the Left is what solicits a backlash from myself and others on the Right.
There are issues that can clearly be defined as right and wrong (terrorism, murder, genocide, drug use, the indisputable role of Christianity in founding American democracy). I notice liberals have a far greater tendency to rationalize evil away dismissively. Which partly explains my aversion to liberalism, which so often tries to think outside the box, that it asserts arguments and social programs that defy common sense.
But I don't mean to imply that liberalism as a whole is wrong. But I oppose virtually everything that is championed in the name of liberalism over the last 35 years.