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Originally Posted by host
It's amusing to read the attempts of you and The_Jazz to portray me as
No one is deriding Thompson, or other unprincipled, unscrupulous, disingenuous republicans, as much as they are doing it to themselves. You either don't perceive it, or refuse to let on that you do. The uniformity of your reaction indicates that you are sincere, but consistently incorrect. You're seeing "honest men", and even "heroes", where the relentless progression of revelations about their actions and intent, tells us the opposite about the characters of these partisan political operators. They are revealed as committed only to partisan goals.
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Please, host. You're the most partisan regular poster in Tilted Politics. If you can't acknowledge that about yourself, then we really have nothing to discuss. Even the Democratic operative that posts here will occassionally acknowledge that not all Republicans are bad people.
The fact that I find it far easier to discuss anything with Ustwo than you for the simple reason that he'll accept shades of grey should speak volumes to you. I don't have any problem with you bringing your axe to grind in every thread, but the fact that you expressly refuse to acknowledge your agenda really detracts from your overall message here.
I've never said that Thompson was a choir boy or an angel. Far from it, as a matter of fact. What I have said, at least in the last 24 hours worth of posts is that Thompson pumped the White House for information that he used against them.
Really, all of this stuff has been in the historical record for decades and it's nothing new. The only reason it's being dredged up again is Thompson's political aspirations. Why is it relavent what the White House thought of Thompson at the time when the results CLEARLY show something completely different actually happened? There were always accusations that the Republicans on the Watergate committee were taking orders from the White House. Those who made those accussations changed their tune after Nixon's resignation.
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
Please, host. You're the most partisan regular poster in Tilted Politics. If you can't acknowledge that about yourself, then we really have nothing to discuss. Even the Democratic operative that posts here will occassionally acknowledge that not all Republicans are bad people.
The fact that I find it far easier to discuss anything with Ustwo than you for the simple reason that he'll accept shades of grey should speak volumes to you. I don't have any problem with you bringing your axe to grind in every thread, but the fact that you expressly refuse to acknowledge your agenda really detracts from your overall message here.
I've never said that Thompson was a choir boy or an angel. Far from it, as a matter of fact. What I have said, at least in the last 24 hours worth of posts is that Thompson pumped the White House for information that he used against them. If that's not the definition of a sonofabitch, I don't know what is. Frankly, I know that post-Watergate many White House Republicans were not happy with either Thompson or Baker.
Really, all of this stuff has been in the historical record for decades and it's nothing new. The only reason it's being dredged up again is Thompson's political aspirations. Why is it relavent what the White House thought of Thompson at the time when the results CLEARLY show something completely different actually happened? There were always accusations that the Republicans on the Watergate committee were taking orders from the White House. Those who made those accussations changed their tune after Nixon's resignation.
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