Why I’m Resigning My Position As A Republican Committeeman

[disappoint]

JSt0rm is being sarcastic. He's illustrating how any Republican who disagrees with the official party line by even a bit is immediately labeled as a non-member of the tribe.

No true scotsman?

 

[jackstar7]

No true scotsman?

All day, every day.

 

[Atreus21]

All day, every day.

You mean to tell me if a single prominent democrat starting saying that abortion was abominable, Planned Parenthood a calumny, and global warming overstated and overhyped, democrats would suddenly stop and reconsider all these issues?

 

[ivwshane]

You mean to tell me if a single prominent democrat starting saying that abortion was abominable, Planned Parenthood a calumny, and global warming overstated and overhyped, democrats would suddenly stop and reconsider all these issues?

Along with the no true Scotsman fallacy, the other fallacy the right loves to use is the straw man like you just did.

 

[feralkid]

This.

The guy had no problems towing the typical gop lines and now he wants to quit because what? He likes illegals? He likes fucking our lower income manufacturing sector with one sided "free trade" deals? Bitch, please, I'll take 10 union members for every one of you.

Toe, not tow, you putz.

 

[Jhhnn]

My single issue is severely restricting abortion - not making it wholly illegal. Whether it appeals almost entirely to religious people or Richard Dawkins is irrelevant to me.

You'll just make it illegal for the vast, vast majority of women with some token exceptions.

Beyond that, what part of the failure of Reaganomics do you not understand, anyway?

 

[trenchfoot]

It seems to me this guy that's resigning looks to be a traitor to the party simply because he hasn't pulled much further to the right as many other conservatives have over the last couple of decades. It could well be that he hasn't changed so much as the base of the party obviously has. I mean, just look at who their base have been conditioned to want as their POTUS?

The ridiculously exaggerated propaganda war that the RNC started against the Dems that, among other factors, pulled the party much further to the right for its own damn good has thrown the party's moderates under the bus, leaving them to stick with the party for no other reason than they have nowhere else to go.

Some others, like this guy, has had enough of those folks that keep wanting to pull the party ever further to the right, which is quite delightful to their puppet masters who are immensely profiting from this awkward debilitating shift.

 

[MovingTarget]

Honestly, I'm surprised that the author didn't jump ship much earlier. The warning signs of this decline were in place well into dubya's tenure in office. As a former Republican myself, the selection of Trump by the GOP only serves as proof that the party has gone off the rails in a truly unsustainable way.

 

[jackstar7]

Along with the no true Scotsman fallacy, the other fallacy the right loves to use is the straw man like you just did.

It's quite true. But we shouldn't be playing fallacy police.

Rather, let us ask him to make his argument again about how this member of the party for so long is just another RINO.

 

[MongGrel]

Two union parents, a union brother, truck drivers and machinists for friends.

With the posts you make I'm surprised you're family and friends have not beaten the living piss out of you to be honest.

I find it hard to believe.

 

[Atreus21]

Along with the no true Scotsman fallacy, the other fallacy the right loves to use is the straw man like you just did.

A straw man is when you mis-characterize your opponent's argument to make it easier to defeat.

I asked a hypothetical. The subject of OP is a guy who says he's not a republican anymore because he essentially became a democrat. If this happened in reverse, do you honestly think any democrat on this forum would spend much time scrutinizing his ideology?

 

[fskimospy]

A straw man is when you mis-characterize your opponent's argument to make it easier to defeat.

I asked a hypothetical. The subject of OP is a guy who says he's not a republican anymore because he essentially became a democrat. If this happened in reverse, do you honestly think any democrat on this forum would spend much time scrutinizing his ideology?

I think in both cases people should scrutinize their ideology. Did the party switch come because their ideology changed or was it because the party's ideology changed? If it's the former, not much more to say. If it's the latter, the party might want to consider if there are more people like him out there. Remember the Republican party has moved quite dramatically to the right in recent years. Much further than Democrats have moved to the left.

 

[JD50]

He said pursuit of theocratic legislation. How are laws like the ones Mike Pence embraces not theocratic legislation?

Good question.

 

[1prophet]

You'll just make it illegal for the vast, vast majority of women with some token exceptions.

Beyond that, what part of the failure of Reaganomics do you not understand, anyway?

You should ask this hypocrite of a committeeman

Watching Ronald Reagan as a boy, I recall how bold it was for him to declare ‘morning again’ in America. In a country menaced by Communism and burdened by a struggling economy, the audacity of Reagan’s optimism inspired a generation.

but if you read the complete article before using this guy as another stone to cast against Trump you would realize his political gods and their policies he set upon a pedestal is what brought out the demon that he despises so much called Trump.

 

[jackstar7]

Now he's not only not a true Scotsman, he's a hypocrite, too? My my my...