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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (174503)10/24/2011 11:44:51 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 541703
 
<<You do this much too often, koan, you make a judgment call--someone is smart and others are not, and then, when someone disagrees, you slip in new criteria. Take the Gingrich example, I gather you are arguing he's not smart because he's mean.

You are greatly misreading me. I am not debating you. I never intend to compete with you. You do not seem to understand this. You are a great thinker. I am just honing the reality I mean to put forth.

I am correcting my own mistakes in how I articulate things. Often I am not very smooth in how I do it. That is one of my shortcomings.

But I have never thought Newt was very smart. I never saw him do anything smart. I don't think many on the right are smart. Smart means having the correct ideas which does include compassion. Who on the right has correct ideas?

E.g. William f. Buckley was always touted as being the intellectual of the right wing. But all I ever saw was twisted pedantic logic. And Buckley was very insensitive and yes, I consider mean people as dumb. Wise people are not mean.
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