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Best Discussions
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1171063310.shtml


   I don't mean to call anyone out. I honestly don't. It's wrong to do
   that.

   But, I added [1]Stupid Airplane Kerfuffle to our [2]Best Discussions
   Archive.

   I started that discussion mildly annoyed at what I thought was
   juvenile politics. As it went on, I (and a few others) got steadily
   more angry. I wasn't quite sure why I was getting angry, but then
   [3]Martin Shoemaker">Martin Shoemaker crystallized why. For me.

   Maybe I shouldn't have gotten angrier. Maybe I should have just gotten
   more cool and rational. It's probably one of my main character flaws,
   my inability to do this.

   Oh well.

   I respect conservatives. I briefly considered myself one of them. I
   realized at some point I wasn't one, but I view conservatives--the
   serious ones--as very important, vital members of our Republic.

   But there is a point when they, just like the vital intellectual
   liberals, sometimes lose focus, and lose it badly. (Because--shock of
   shocks--they're human! As am I, of course.)

   The discussion raised many interesting issues worth discussing, but
   seriously: the one thing I always respect about you conservatives is
   that you take tradition, and history, and security concerns, very
   seriously.

   And almost all of you fell down on the one job where you can almost be
   counted on to get it right.

   You failed because you lost your perspective, and decided that your
   dislike of the current temporary Speaker of the House exceeded your
   common sense.

   Which is why I went from "annoyed" to "genuinely angry."

   It's encapsulated [4]right here.

   You weren't just being partisan and losing perspective (which we all
   do on occasion). On this, you lost your frickin' minds.

   You weren't just arguably wrong. You were not just a little wrong. You
   were wrong, period.

   And if you're the real conservatives I know and love and respect,
   you'll say, "aw crap, you're right."

   Not because Dean being right is what's important (it isn't) but
   because you guys blew it big time.

   So have I on many occasions, FWIW.

References

   1. http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1171019512.shtml
   2. http://www.deanesmay.com/best_discussions/
   3. http://tabletumlnews.powerblogs.com/
   4. http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1171019512.shtml#103397