Sincerely I hope that when you write another diary, that you think about what you’re trying to accomplish with your words, rather than using a flaky narrative and getting upset when someone explains the logical fallacies of your thoughts. I would also hope you don’t take critique of your ideas as a critique of your value as a person. I hope you stop implying that people are out to get you… they’re not… nobody wants to kick you and throw you ball away… just for the sake of bullying.

I want to point out that I never insulted your intelligence. (however you attempted to do this to me several times). You’re 63 years old, and still you seem to think ‘labels’ mean something. I’ll give you examples of when you tried to label people in this thread.

“Reading comprehension is your friend”
“Ok Homer, tell me…”
“I take it you are buyer #3″
“with collage edumakative words…not worth it”
“…the smartest in the room.”
“…trying to be a nice guy.”
“…Are you a shrink.”

I am 30, I’m less than half your age, and it seem a little supercilious of me to have to point these things out to you, but you should know that I do it for the sake of civility going forward, and not to rub more pepper in your eye.

If you clicked on my profile link you’d know I’m not a shrink. I think its odd that when I challenged your ideas with “collage edumakative words” that you immediately began to respond with cynical statements towards education and intelligence. So take it with a grain of salt knowing that I’m not a shrink when I say…

It seems to me that you may have some poorly directed disdain and mistrust for the educated, which would imply you’ve had some difficult trials in your life that you blame on people that you perceived as “more educated” than yourself, but are “less smart” than you… The bible has a word for that… Envy.

We’ll see if you will stick to your word that you’re gonna let this die off here… cause frankly I don’t care respond to this thread any longer, but if you continue to ask me questions, I will reply out of etiquette.

No further comment by me will be needed, as I will let it die out.
In the future, when I write a diary, I must keep in mind that some mindless fool will come along and trash it just to trash it, and I must take into account all the fools that go walking down the block looking for someone or something to kick. And doing it just for the hell of it, as this person has done.

if you wanted to know my motive… just ask… you never did… nor did you try to glean what you could, and move on… instead, you reacted defensively and implied I have a reading comprehension issue… as far as I’m concerned you got what you deserved.

Its your diary, I can understand you thinking that every comment revolves around you… but my comment wasn’t about you… and you still haven’t grasped that reality yet.

If I had to choose between which one I would rather have for POTUS, I’d go with Mike Pence in every scenario.

I detest the inane fidgeting over who would make a better candidate… and its not an apples and oranges comparison, neither is it an apples and apples or oranges and oranges comparison.

The issues I took with the diary was two fold…

1. This shouldn’t be a debate right now, and its creating division and its drawing blood. I felt like the writer of the diary had good intentions… and good intentions pave the way to hell… commentator hell. You know you’re there when emotional responses are more heavily weighted than rational ones.

Rather than attempting to give a place for this discussion, let it unfold wherever it may… and let the morons weed themselves out by getting banned for thread-jacking or impropriety. These weeds will pop up anywhere, there’s no way to govern where they grow. It’s best to challenge them where they are, and call down the blam stick when its appropriate. The cool-headed ones will benefit from the back and forth, and might even become decent citizens of Redstate. The insane ones will earn their right to the blam stick wound.

2. I really despise categorical metaphors that fit a narrow mindset. Hopefully my comment opened up the eyes of the writer, as well as others who hope to refine their writing skills here at this site.

No I don’t hope to police things here at Redstate that’s a hard job. That’s not my job… but I do hope to influence others to be better at who they are and influence them to be better at expressing the most salient topics of both their minds and hearts.

How I do that may or may not be “nice” but it will be what comes to mind when commenting. Take it or leave it… I’m not perfect… neither do I want to be considered “the smartest in the room”… but when someone takes my words as pepper in the eye, rather than with a grain of salt… and then turns it into a slur contest… then “I’ll be {their} huckleberry’ and I will have ‘fun’ at their emotional expense. Most people label this as immature… I think of it as witty.

Yes… I’m that “one in every family”.

It seams he has done a full 180.

Just to be clear, I was :
1. Trying to get posters who were arguing over Palin away from a good Mike Pence diary “remember the Mike Pence diary?” onto a diary where they could have a free for all and all the bloodloss they could stand, without it being a threadjack.
2. Just trying to show posters that they are all looking at the same thing, and seeing it different, and no one of them was wrong or right in thier own opinion.

This is what you get for trying to be a nice guy.

I didn’t join Redstate until very late in the 08 season, when McCain was already our penance. Palin did in fact make me feel better at that time with McCain being it. I’ve read some accounts of how bloody the site was with respect to the candidates during the primary season, up to and including many long time members leaving, never to return. I can see that type of scenario playing out once again, when this primary season really kicks into gear. Heck, it’s already started before the season has kicked into gear.

Your advice that commentors support their candidates in a positive way would do wonders. It is frustrating to watch some go after those that might have questions, or who have not just jumped on their guys bandwagon. If I post a positive comment about Mike Pence, I don’t expect to be called delusional for that support.

Again, sorry to be so late in responding to your reply.

Anyway, I think that you owe gekster an apology. You’ve been pretty insulting and haven’t even said that you misinterpreted the diary in the first place; everyone who weighed in on the issue (including Scope, in what may be the most gently-phrased rebuke I’ve ever seen from her) has pointed this out.

Again, sorry for blasting you. I don’t like doing that, generally.

I read through your blogs, and your comments… I mean ‘genius’ respectfully and sincerely

I was however pointing out that your comment to me was hypocritical by intent… and you should have known better.

needless to say… but for irony’s sake i’ll say it anyhow…

“Three different commenters, and all have exactly the same Jerk,
driven the same amount of inanity.
Three very similar opinions of commenters with the exact same Jerk from the same thread.
No one of them can change the mind of the Jerk.
It just seems hopeless to even try.”

However, I respectfully disagree, and I’m not just trying to be disagreeable…

Historically RedState becomes an oven during Presidential Primary season, and in general the people govern one another as they always do… but there’s a heck of a lot of banning during that time frame. My comments even if considered harsh, were at the same time free of vituperation and pettiness.

I was not ‘attacking’ gekster’s character, neither did I impugn Sarah Palin or her supporters (as was done to me in this thread). I did however criticize the idea that we conservatives, or redstaters, or tea partiers for that matter fall in to one of 3 camps when it comes to Palin. (yes, I consider myself a conservative, a long timer redstater, and a tea partier before it was cool).

I don’t believe my comments were exacerbating the ‘heated rhetoric’ heretofore… and to the contrary… as one who will GLADLY support Sarah Palin should she win the nomination… I believe my comments should encourage those who support Palin to support her in positive means, rather than ad hominem attacks and foolish rhetoric that serves no purpose than to stir the emotional pot.

I respect you a lot Scope as a fellow the the 3 aforementioned associations… and if I’ve offended… my sincerest apologies to everyone… it wasn’t my intent…