I want you to show me again where anyone has "tarred every McCain supporter with the same brush".
Nothing in this post says anything about "these people" meaning all McCain supporters, nor would I have taken that meaning from it when reading it.
And as far as disowning whackos, frankly, this tit-for-tat thing is BS. I shouldn't *need* to disown my whackos for you to disown yours, as though it were a prisoner transfer. If you have honor and integrity as a human being rather than a political operative, you disown filthy and disgusting behavior because it's filthy and disgusting, regardless of whether it might weaken your position in an ongoing presidential race.
Hell, there shouldn't even need to be a disowning. You shouldn't *own* these people in the first place. You shouldn't be defending these people or caring what people say about them at all just because they're "on your side".
McCain's sudden intense burst of rage in the debate, defending each and every person who goes to his rallies as "good Americans" disgusted me, because it showed that he lacked integrity -- that just coming out and saying you'll vote for him makes you "on his side" no matter how vile the things you say. Had he just said he didn't care about the things people said at his rallies and didn't feel responsible for them I'd've been much happier.
(And yes, it did make him a huge hypocrite for slamming Obama for T-shirts that have been made and worn without his involvement or presence in any way at all.)
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Date: 2008-10-19 05:30 am (UTC)From:Nothing in this post says anything about "these people" meaning all McCain supporters, nor would I have taken that meaning from it when reading it.
And as far as disowning whackos, frankly, this tit-for-tat thing is BS. I shouldn't *need* to disown my whackos for you to disown yours, as though it were a prisoner transfer. If you have honor and integrity as a human being rather than a political operative, you disown filthy and disgusting behavior because it's filthy and disgusting, regardless of whether it might weaken your position in an ongoing presidential race.
Hell, there shouldn't even need to be a disowning. You shouldn't *own* these people in the first place. You shouldn't be defending these people or caring what people say about them at all just because they're "on your side".
McCain's sudden intense burst of rage in the debate, defending each and every person who goes to his rallies as "good Americans" disgusted me, because it showed that he lacked integrity -- that just coming out and saying you'll vote for him makes you "on his side" no matter how vile the things you say. Had he just said he didn't care about the things people said at his rallies and didn't feel responsible for them I'd've been much happier.
(And yes, it did make him a huge hypocrite for slamming Obama for T-shirts that have been made and worn without his involvement or presence in any way at all.)