You are simply not allowed to make intelligent observations like that around these parts any longer, Tulsa Ramjet. I weighed in against a few of Bush's major malaprops this am: Ballooning the Fed w/Education; Homeland Security's lack of security; and, finally, the Port Deal. These are areas I feel Bush has been weak in. If you disagree, so be it: but please, in honor of the intent of the forum, give me a logical argument and I'll think about it. But no, all I got was invective and ad hominum. Some perpetual invoker of LOLLOLLOL took a variety of swipes at me, and her compadres joined in. But not a reasoned counter point, not a new bit of info, or an detailed opposing view in the lot. Well, actually no, there was one poster. I have to review the thread to recall who it was. But the majority of the attack dogs had no facts, no argument, and just a lot of personal spittle. Sheesh. V's wife.
"But the majority of the attack dogs had no facts, no argument, and just a lot of personal spittle."
Here is what I think happens, or maybe it has morphed to this:
A major issue is launched on a thread. Conservatives start laying the battle lines. Elected conservative staffs, or self-interested parties starts checkin' how the threads are going. Lo and behold, it is going the wrong way of their boss! They start jumpin' in as if it is a WWF caged match, tag-teaming inquisitive conservatives questioning valid points. They try to beat them to submission. The poster trails off and disappears. They claim victory. What they fail to realize is those initial reactions is what that poster feels. Unvalidated drivel is not going to change their opinion. We've got paid party boys hittin' the threads trying to march to their own drum.