Posted on 03/14/2005 7:53:10 PM PST by rface
This tells me everything I need to know.
Objective? I thought you were to debate the merits of your position, not be objective like perhaps and audience member could be.
The author if this piece is kind of pathetic.
"From this day forward I choose the path of true progress. Consider me an objectivist."
I think we know what she really was and is: a Progressive, which is really the codeword for a liberal who does not have the balls to embrace the 'liberal' label.
It's highly unlikely that Ashley is or ever was a conservative
Ashley Samelson is a sophomore who has yet to declare a major.
Well, she's young yet so there's still hope.
Objective people can disagree with each other.
No one here is perfectly happy with their party. Sulking in the comfortable corner of a political philosophy that has no participation in the current political sphere is the fashionably cool pose of college rebels. But I don't have to respect it as being anything but what it is: A cop-out.
(Pause while the "Oh yeah, well the Republicans were a minoriity party once!" fussilade falls)
Objectivism is a fine idea, the right's socialism, really, where all those idealists who won't accept anything but an unreachable perfection can join and feel elite and above it all. But it's no more reality than basing one's view of the world on Star Trek utopian dreams would be. I live in the real world, and have no time for those who don't and expect everyone to fawn over them for it.
"Ashley Samelson is a sophomore who has yet to declare a major."
Seems she wishy-washy in more ways than one!
I think we are experiencing a Ward Churchill moment with this faker.
Don't confuse her.
Well, people have already pointed out that it's extremely doubtful that she had Bush/Cheney stickers to tear off, and that she's a flake who can't make up her mind.
I'm not sure if I hold the name "Ashley" against her, because I know several nice girls named Ashley. But it's tempting.
"Consider me an objectivist."
She likes speakers that repetitively drone on for 80 pages.
This is pretty deluded even for a college sophomore. I find it difficult to believe she was genuinely conservative and because of this "debate" abandoned her beliefs.
When she has lived a little longer and has more experience she may see that whenever conservatives try to "work instead towards a more progressive dialogue" they get back stabbed by the liberals. Case in point, Teddy (aka The Swimmer) Kennedy and the "education" bill. Bush foolishly lets him write it and then right after its passage, The Swimmer goes out and trashes Bush and the bill. And nobody in the MSM calls him on it.
One does not have a "dialog" with the left. One defeats them in the arena of ideas, at the ballot box and anywhere else necessary.
Simply put, it is redundant to refer to politics as partisan. And naive to think that it should be anything else.
Ann is old enough to be my mom, I think, but geez, she's so hot.
"The lesson that both debaters desperately need to learn is that the very essence of debate is objectivity."
I wonder how many best selling books Ashley Sampson has written.
We won't have to worry about partisanship too much longer since the Dimocrat Party is in an accelerating death spiral, should impact the ground in about 6 - 8 months. We'll be a much better country and another political organization will fill the void.
OK - so I am gullible and I want to give a pretty name the benefit of the doubt.....so now every single post has stated that Ashley Samelson is about as conservative as ..... hmmmm......Hillary Clinton? Sheeeesh. I am a softy
Good news is she left the Kerry/Edwards sticker on her Bumper! Ann Rox!!
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