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To: Paul Smith who wrote (148558)	11/1/2010 9:16:05 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543523

ROFL I love it when the right defines the left, so it can create a straw man. I don't think either side has a corner on sensitivity- as the posts from wingers this morning show. You guys are obviously every bit as sensitive. Good for you. Let it shine. I think it's adorable that the tea baggers are concerned about being called tea baggers. Because, really, is there anything wrong with a sexual act like that? Not at all- unless you're sensitive about it, of course. Do you think the tea baggers are sensitive about that? And the insult thing? Too funny. Have you checked out the winger threads on SI? Looked at winger signs? Looked at tea bagger signs? raw emotional reactions? Hello. Isn't that what tea baggery is all about? Yes, yes it is. But it's cute you'd like to make it all about the left. This morning has been such a lark. Thanks a bunch. And good luck to all the tea baggers out there. May your bags float gayly in the wind. I had NO idea how many nerves there were out there to be hit today... :-) Woot When I see wingers calling their own on the ludicrous amount of name calling by people on the right, I'll believe it's mroe than a simple Gotcha game. Until them, bag on.

To: Paul Smith who wrote (148558)	11/1/2010 10:09:48 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 543523

The left currently seems to believe insults are the way to regain their lost power. That is a pretty amusing statement since it was people like Newt Gingrich, Lee Atwater and Roger Ailes who made "insulting" the other party an art form, turned many political campaigns into campaigns where the person who could create the most "clever" insult would win the day, and have devised long term verbal campaigns to smear their opposition--from saying "liberal" with a sneer to trying to revise the word "Democratic Party" into "Democrat Party." Cute, Paul. Just as cute as Christy pretending that he is a blunt guy who just tells it as it is while balancing his budget with tricks that pass the problem down the road to a time when he won't be in office. Just like Reagan pretending that he didn't raise taxes in 1985 to make up for his budget busting tax cuts in his first term. Just like Bush who pretended that he was just "returning the people's money to them" in his first tax cut instead of addressing the problems of unfunded liabilities, then when his tax cuts do exactly what Democrats said they would do--lead to unsustainable deficits--he pretended in 1985 to the American people that "the cupboard is bare, there is no money to pay for Social Security or Medicare." And while we're at it, let's all pretend that Bush's people didn't make the 2009 budget or the gargantuan deficits, no, that's all Obama's people, since he came into office in Jan 2009, everything that happened after that date is on his shoulders. So many things we can pretend, such great fun! It is what Republicans are really good at doing: pretending.