[Vision2020] Palin Candidacy Helps Planned Parenthood Fundraising

[Jeff Harkins]

Oh Joe - you are a piece of work.

Let me guess, next you will call me a liar - and then you will 
threaten to come and punch me in the nose. Or you will try to get me 
fired as treasurer. You seem to me to be that man "full of sound and 
fury - signifying nothing".

At 09:37 AM 10/2/2008, you wrote:
>Just to clarify, here is what I think Jeff's "connection" to the 
>event noted below is:
>
>Recently it became obvious that Doug Wilson gets to say what does 
>and what does not happen for  members of Christ Church. He asked 
>Dale Courney to remove the offensive joke by No Weatherman and 
>Courney did so. If had wanted the man with the bigot sign to stop 
>holding the sign, the man would have stopped. That is what I believe 
>and there is evidence for it.
>
>Jeff Harkins was part of one candidate's team, a treasurer I 
>believe. If he had gone to Wilson and said "Look, to call Linda Paul 
>a bigot, after she has done so much for the community and given her 
>record on human rights, is just absurd. Same goes with the others. 
>This is wrong! He should stop and apologize now!" I have every 
>reason to believe that the man would have put the sign down and 
>issued a public apology. That didn't happen, ergo Harkins didn't ask.
>
>That is why I don't take much stock in Harkins on his soap box about 
>how to behave during an election.
>
>Care to point out which step is wrong in my analysis, Jeff? I doubt 
>it. Which is not to say that you won't issue some sweeping soap box 
>speech intended to get us off THIS topic.
>
>--
>Joe Campbell
>
>---- joekc at roadrunner.com wrote:
> > 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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