How to argue with right-wing relatives (You're about to lose yesterday's supper)

Salon ^ | December 25, 2011 | Alex Pareene

[2ndDivisionVet]

Could the counter-arguments be any more lame?

[cripplecreek]

Tell your relatives that you have recently joined the New Black Panther Party. They will be too terrified to bring it up again!

LOL.

[jakerobins]

What counter arguments?? Like most Liberal arguments they are just aimed at shutting up the Conservative/Rpeublican by trying to embarress them.....My response is who has the “Creepy Obsession” with people’s diets me or a First Wookie who eats like a Hog and tells me to eat their vegies??

[GOP Poet]

Bookmark for later reading ;).

[reefdiver]

I don't even acknowledge the liberal side of my family anymore. A hello at functions where I have to be there (funeral) and nothing more.
It drives them nuts, but I have nothing to say to them. It's all out there. All the facts you need to know on any issue is out there. I choose my side they took theirs - good-by,

[Old Sarge]

I notice that Salon-Obama didn’t even touch the facts behind the bisexual illegitimate Halfrican Kenyan Muslim Usurper’s past.

Oh wait, that’s racist.

[Moose Burger]

“They will be too terrified to bring it up again!”

They will be too ashamed to bring you home again. Maybe a net win, but who knows.

[JoeDetweiler]

Just Google Alex Pareene images. He looks to be about seventeen years old. I don’t bother arguing politics with children.

[svcw]

Good grief. There was zero intellect in this article. I guess he was trying to be funny, epic fail.
You might as well have read something written but someone who was in a drug induced coma.

[Popman]

My lib relatives know not to agrue with me concerning politics as I am several times more informed than they are (thanks to FR ) and they don’t like being embarrassed and protrayed as ignorant....

Much nicer get togethers when politics are not addresed or discussed

[Lazamataz]

Excessive regulation/regulatory uncertainly is killing the recovery, that is why there are no jobs!

Look, you can print out some lame chart from Ezra Klein or memorize some “statistics” about Obama not issuing any more regulations than other presidents, but those won’t help, because numbers and charts lie about everything.

Yeah, the HELL with facts!!!

The HELL with them!!!

[cripplecreek]

My family is drifting to the right and I don’t mind helping them.

I was happy to hear my niece complaining about the idiots in Kalamazoo where she went to school.

[2ndDivisionVet]

"You might as well have read something written but someone who was in a drug induced coma."

It's possible we were.

[Osage Orange]

I work in the healthcare field.

I had a male patient the other day....who was in his 60's, ponytailed, and watching MSNBC.

He was railing against evil Pharm, evil corporations, and EVIL Repub's.

He was on a very long list of meds. I came so close to telling the dude...he should just stop taking all those meds..from those evil Pharm companies.

But I didn't....

The irony would have been lost on him....and I'm generally more polite and professional than that. Ha!!

[ConorMacNessa]

"If you have a “smart phone,” just bookmark Snopes now. "

I wouldn't trust anything you see on that left-wing POS website.

Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Principis Pacis!

[hinckley buzzard]

Yes, you noticed, none of the "counterarguments" were responsive to the issues. Typical liberal feces-smearing.

[Gaffer]

Oh, I’m pretty sure that Alex Pareene doesn’t have any relatives or conservative friends [not hardly] that would claim to be such. His greatest enjoyment is probably torturing Gerbils.

[grumpa]

Good post. They are really running scared.

[longtermmemmory]

newsflash for the left, having travelled abroad I have seen how NOBODY but exteme communist lunatics have any personal respect for obama.

His state department is out of control and under their own job security agenda.

None of the counter arguments are dedicated to logic or reason.

Offer that leftist lunatic relative NO QUARTER.

[svcw]

It would not have mattered. My most liberal family member b...tches about rich not paying their fair share, I point out he pays zero fed tax because the rich pay enough for him to get head of household credits, child credits, child care credits....that he gets back more money than what is taken out of his check. Normally he just looks like dear caught in headlights. He is not stupid just in readable uninformed.