[Vision2020] Palin Candidacy Helps Planned Parenthood Fundraising

[joekc at roadrunner.com]

You are way off base, Jeff.

To claim a donation to Planned Parenthood was to honor Governor Sarah is irony. Everyone knows 
her views on the topic. There is no intent here to misrepresent those views. To suggest otherwise
is like saying a report that your previous comment was REAL intelligent (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)
is to issue you a compliment. It isn't. It is sarcasm, meaning the opposite of what is literally said.

One might want to say the strategy is rude since it is in-your-face but there is nothing more 
in-your-face than depriving someone of the right to make one's own choice about such a complex
issue. It is just another instance of demanding a level of civility in politics that Palin and the rest
of the radical right are unwilling to deliver to their opponents. For someone who led a recent
campaign that benefited from the fact that a man held a sign downtown calling your opponents
"bigots," you have a lot of nerve complaining about this. I don't remember you saying a thing then.

And no I won't ever forget that incident, or your involvement with it.

--
Joe Campbell

---- Jeff Harkins <jeffh at moscow.com> wrote: 
> Chasuk,
> 
> I use an older dictionary - probably because I am older.
> 
> Defame - to attack or injure the reputation or honor of by false and 
> malicious statements; malign, slander or libel.
> [Webster's New World, 3rd College Edition, 1988]
> 
> To claim a donation to Planned Parenthood was to honor Governor Sarah 
> Palin is a false and malicious statement.  The intent is to malign 
> the Vice Presidential Candidate Gov. Sarah Palin.
> 
> It is interesting that we agree on the vendetta against Christ 
> Church, e.g., counterproductive and hypocritical.
> 
> At 08:45 PM 10/1/2008, you wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 19:54, Jeff Harkins <jeffh at moscow.com> wrote:
> >
> > > An obvious attack on Gov. Palin's character and her values.  Read 
> > carefully,
> > > you could spare a lot of energy.
> >
> >I do read carefully, but I also know what "defame" means,  when it it
> >apparent that you don't.
> >
> >  > Tell you what - let's start a campaign, in
> >  your name, to provide donations to Christ Church.  Are you in?
> >
> >Certainly.  I would be honored.  I'm not a member of the
> >I-hate-Doug-tribe.  The beliefs and practices of Kirkers are no more
> >alarming than the beliefs or practices of numerous Roman Catholics or
> >Mormons in Moscow, so I consider the entire vendetta counterproductive
> >and hypocritical.
> 
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