To: Sully- who wrote (58433 ) 4/20/2007 7:42:33 PM From: Sully- Read Replies (1) | Respond to OK, we're back with more on of An Interview with a "Centrist"Sully: How about a "centrist" view of the Bush Admin?Dale: The ideological zeal and purity of the current administration was supposed to solve our problems, not add to them. Now that the verdict is largely in on this bunch, time to look for the next crop, hopefully a more pragmatic leadership this time....Sully: Yikes! That's a "centrist" POV!?!?Dale: There are none so blind, as they say.....Sully: Man, you can say that again!Dale: There are none so blind, as they say.....Sully: Uh, that was rhetorical. And it was meant to wake you up to your ultra-delusional belief you're a "centrist".Dale: There are none so blind, as they say.....Sully: Any comments on Pelosi's treacherous trip to Syria?Dale: The Syria stuff is just cafeteria food-fight nonsense. If Bush had been able to intimidate or negotiate Syria into line, he would have some standing to criticize and complain. But now he is just saying that nothing he tried has worked, so nobody else should try anything different.Sully: OK, back to the gun control issue one last time. You're never going to take away all access to guns from law abiding citizens. You're certainly not going to get criminals to turn in their guns. There are many contradictions between your POV & statistical evidence showing that more open conceal carry permits coincide with less violence like that seen at VT. Care to explain?Dale: Contradictions are so messy....government is bad until government is good, or government is good until government is bad, I get so confused....Sully: Huh!?!?Dale: This is what real lefties do.Sully: Ah ha! You admit it! OK, while we're having this breakthrough can you explain why most of your posts on the "Veiw", both your own POV's & the articles you bring there lean so hard to the left?Dale: This is a fascinating development I had heard nothing about before today.Sully: Ya, right. I see the Dow is at an all time high. Most experts believe it has a lot to do with the great economic conditions in place along with the fantastic increase in revenues into gov't coffers due to Bush's tax cuts. What does a "centrit" like you have to say?Dale: [sarcastically] Can you believe all these stupid people who don't believe the economy is doing great, and don't support extending Bush's tax cuts? Must be a case of BDS running rampant through more than 100 million people at the same time; quite an achievement for that evil MSM.Sully: I see. How about a "centrist" view on the faux scandal concocted by libs to discredit Wolfowitz & harm the Bush Admin?Dale: Something about neocons, they don't get along well with the other children outside their little club. No one seems to understand why they deserve special treatment as a reward for their ideological purity. Or it's just the usual power-corrupts story in Washington.Sully: OK, so how about a "centrist's" POV on the global war on terror?Dale: The WOT only holds up because it is spun in a "we will all die" context that strives to defy rational cost calculation. As rational policy, it makes little or no sense as a long-term policy. It only exists today because the incumbents are saying we can't do anything less or we perish. Very melodramatic rhetoric.Sully: All experts now agree that both in Iraq as well as in Vietnam that our troops won every single major engagement with the enemy. Many conservative are certain that the media misled the country into the false belief that we were losing the Vietnam war & they continue that trend in Iraq today.Dale: I love that .... post where someone says we are actually winning in Iraq and the evil media just isn't reporting it. Another familiar red herring from Vietnam days. Sully: OK, I thinks that's more than enough for today. Thank you Comrade Baker for your honest & revealing thoughts.Dale: There are none so blind, as they say.....Sully: You got that right!
