Originally posted by: CycloWizard
Your entire OP is a sad attempt to use one random example as a hasty generalization of an entire political party. You then use this ridiculous proposition as a foundation for assigning the exact opposite position (i.e. that of righteous forthrightness) to the opposing party. Your choosing to be partisan doesn't make you any less partisan.Originally posted by: Craig234
Well, that's completely false. There's nothing 'partisan' about it. And in fact, your inability to be wrong civilly makes you not only look the fool, but likely actually be the fool.
You are not alone in confusing the difference between choices, and 'partisanship'.
If I'd posted that Reagan had got us into Vietnam and Bill Clinton cured cancer, you would have a point. I didn't, and you don't.
I don't think R's are all bad or D's all good, and have never said so, as many times as the foolish have made the false claim.
I do prefer the D's overall to the R's, strongly, and say why, which oh by the way is sort of the purpose of this board, not your personal lying snipes.
But you are, sadly, projecting.
No, it's not. Nowhere do I say that the single anecdote *proves* the generalization about Republicans. A study of which party behaves this way proves it, but this thread merely is about the one anecdote being corrected from the popular myth. It mentions it in the larger context that it's yet one more in the long string of such Republican anecdotes, but doesn't claim to prove the generalization.
You're still clueless on the word partisan.
Partisan would be condemning a Republican for taking a bribe while excusing a democrat for taking a similar bribe, and so on.
Partisan is NOT making a fair analysis and reaching the conclusion that the parties are not equal in every way, when the facts say they aren't.
Partisan is your failing to acknowledge the flaws in one party, and attacking the fair criticism of that party's wrongs with false statements.