Help me rebut my lib uncle's scathing Bush thrashing (how would you respond?)

a flaming neocommunist ^ | 4 11 04 | paulsy

[S.O.S121.500]

If your uncle is drawing breath tomarrow......then YOU'RE the problem. "ALL ENEMIES....foriegn and DOMESTIC".

An honestly mistaken man hearing the truth, will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest.

[kanawa]

Wow! Inspired response to 'Charlie'

Cyber High-Five

[Las Vegas Dave]

As Michael Savage says so many times on his radio show,
"LIBERALISM is a mental illness!"

[rockrr]

"Parse that thought for me. We've lost a position we may have not ever held, and if we did we didn't deserve? Get back to me when you decide whether anything happened here, and if so whether it was a good thing."

That one would be worth the price of admission alone!

[get'emall]

I would thank him for his thoughtful analysis, wish him a happy Easter... and remind him that Election Day has been moved to Wednesday, November 4 this year.

[Neenah]

"I wish we could talk about this , but I am afraid you aren't going to change my mind, nor I change yours. Rather than both of us getting angry at each other, I suggest we hold fast to our relationship, and enjoy what we do agree on, giving each other the right to disagree, but concentrating on what is important, and that is FAMILY."

[Las Vegas Dave]

"I would give him some conservative-themed books....

Better yet, donate money to the "reelect George W. Bush campaign","NRA", and the "Right to Life" in his name, and make sure he see the receipts!!!!

[I_dmc]

This post highlights some of the things the Pubs need to find ammo and the access to the public to refute. 1. The falacy that GWB wasn't elected. Perhaps a study of the Dems efforts to steal the election through fraud throughout the country, not to mention destroying ballots in Florida. 2. Sadaam. Forget "liberation of the downtrodden Iraqi people". Focus on how key Iraq actually is, by virtue of its impact on the middle east and radical islam, in the war against terrorism. 3. How well the economy would have recovered without the tax reforms. 4. Review how the antiwar crowd defeated us in Vietnam, thereby creating Bin Laden, showing him how to defeat a superpower, and how the same is occurring today, pointing out exactly whom the antiwar crowd's biggest supporters are.

[Publius6961]

My response would be very brief:

"Ignorance may make excellent fuel for passion, but is no substitute for a grasp of the facts, and the ability to reason and make intelligent conclusions.
"If you think that 'not being elected by the majority' indicates anything more that profound ignorance, there is no hope of holding a rational conversation with you.
"Have a nice day."

[Hildy]

How are you doing? Thank you for mentioning me as a Favorite Freeper! I was a bit teary eyed that after seven years, nobody remembered me (sniff sniff!).

[Howlin]

Oh yeah, we've also lost our position (as if we ever really held or deserved it) as the beacon of hope and freedom for the world.

You can see in that one remark what your uncle thought of this country before any of this happened.

No need to even try to make any points with him.

[Never2baCrat]

I think he said it all when he said < as a lawyer >. Everything else he said is irrelevant.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Dear Uncle. Thanks so much for taking the time to write to me. I only just glanced at some of the items in your letter. You wrote: "Paul- The Shrub you so blindly follow is a mean-spirited greedy idiot, and you can't blame mainstream media sources for finally recognizing his lack of clothing. ..."

I don't blindly follow anything. I rationally make up my own mind...

He was not elected by a majority,

That's how our Constitution is set up. Thomas Jefferson wasn't elected by a popular majority either, but that's just how the system works. Its rare for a person to win the Presidency without the popular vote, but it happens.

Didn't have time to read the rest. Have a great day.

[NewLand]

Burn the letter and toss it in the garbage...like you would with any trash like that.

[Pukin Dog]

I hope you would find the strength to NOT respond to this uncle, but to never allow him near your family again.

From the basic inability to accept reality, to the silly rantings of a child, you don't need people like that in your life. They are poison.

Liberals give away their mentality when they use words like 'shrub' to describe the President. The President has a name, and out of respect for the office, it should be used. Refusal by liberals to even speak Bush's name is a clear admission of an inability to accept the truth.

The fact that Bush is in office is enough for rational people to conclude that he was elected. We need to accept that there are crazy folks among us; more than we would like to acknowledge. Liberalism is craziness, denial, anger and emotional pain; just what you would find in your average 2 year old child.

People with the emotional control of children are dangerous and should be avoided. Pull the plug on your uncle.

[McGavin999]

Oh paulsy, I'm so sorry. I know it's embarrassing for you to have someone like this in the family. I would just write back that you would really not prefer to hear his political positions. Then I would set my e-mail to block all future e-mails from his address. He should get the message from that.

[UltraKonservativen]

Paulsy,
There are many things in life that the good Lord permits you to repair when they are broken but there is one thing that you cannot do:

YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID !!!!!

[UltraKonservativen]

Paulsy,
There are many things in life that the good Lord permits you to repair when they are broken but there is one thing that you cannot do:

YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID !!!!!

[Optimist]

The best way to convince somebody is to let them convince themselves....


Tell him that YOU AGREE with every point he is making; his calm, deliberate recitation of his points leaves any alternative conclusion moot; if you were in a courtroom as a juror before him, his performance would lead you to only one conclusion....emotion is more important than truth and THAT must be why he is such a successful trial attorney.

Finally suggest that if he wants to change to a factual discussion, you and he might arrive at a different conclusion.

[Ichneumon]

Liberals give away their mentality when they use words like 'shrub' to describe the President. The President has a name, and out of respect for the office, it should be used. Refusal by liberals to even speak Bush's name is a clear admission of an inability to accept the truth.

As much as I consider Bill Clinton a total failure as a President, a leader, and a man, and someone who has undermined a lot of what makes this country and American society great, I still call him "Clinton" -- not "Klinton", "Clintoon", or any of the other nicknames that are common for him. I feel that even aside from respect for the office, "cutsie" namecalling reflects worse on my level of maturity than it does on the target.

The uncle who has to say "shrub shrub shrub shrub shrub" comes off sounding like a gradeschooler.