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Originally Posted by tecoyah
The next congressional scandal...vs.....the next republican congressional scandal....likely the former would get more readers....and the post itself will tell the story. All I am trying to say is....lets work together to improve the flow of this board...it belongs to us all.
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Seems to me a good yardstick would be whether the accusation is true or not. This IS a republican congressional scandal. Why is it wrong to say so? As I said earlier, the republicans profess to be the party of morality. Fine, but then when they get themselves into a scandal, I don't see what the problem is with pointing it out. The point of this thread was NOT to say congress had yet another scandal. It was to say the party that for years now has had a wondreful time beating the crap out of everyone else over morality issues isn't so moral itself.
I could understand moderator intervention if the OP had then generalized - i.e "all republicans are crooks." But the OP did no such thing and in fact when wondering about possible other crooks, talked about members of congress, and did NOT specify a party.
As the OP said, it IS a bad time to be a republican because a whole lot of republicans are turning out to be crooks. That's simply the truth. And neither the OP nor any reasonable person would say that this means ALL republicans are crooks (even though the public is likely to associate republicans with crooks if enough of them turn out to be crooked). It's not a flame or a slam if you're just reporting the facts, even if the facts put a particular party in a negative light.