[Vision2020] Sorry!

[Matt Decker]

Joe,
 
Thanks. I hate this heated time of year. 
 
By no means would I BS myself into feeling that our democratic process is a fair and cordial. The sad reality is, spew and untruths are told. That the ends justify the means. I do not defend the Rep. but wonder if the site played a part. 
 
V2020 is no exception. I hate it and have been mute from this site becuase of certain few like it. I have been belitted for having a non liberal view, but have tried to hold a respectful tone. I have offered to talk over coffee, with no results besides Keely(great talk by the way love to do it again). My number is in the phone book by the way, for anybody that feels like a coffee or a beer. By no means am I republican. I am conservative but have the ability to vote democrat, as I will again do this year.
 
MD
 
 
> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:32:19 -0700
> From: philosopher.joe at gmail.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Sorry!
> 
> Sorry for calling out Republicans, asking them to condemn Bouma.
> Likely some of them (Gary, for instance) didn't respond to my
> challenge because they find me annoying more than anything else. And
> in any event, I was wrong about Gary since, as it was pointed out,
> he's been critical of Bouma and Young. Sorry about that Gary.
> 
> Thanks to Matt for at least sharing his thoughts. It was ironically
> immature of me to tell him to "grow up." Sorry about that too. Matt is
> a very decent man and deserves better treatment than this.
> Nonetheless, it is NEVER a justification of a form of behavior to
> simply note that other people do it. It drives me up the wall when
> people continually appeal to this "Two Wrongs Make a Right" fallacy.
> If the behavior is bad, no one should do it. And as a matter of fact
> we did learn this when we were young, whenever we tried to justify our
> actions by saying that someone else did it to us. Bouma should be
> better than the Democrats who won't appear on Fox. If he can't be, he
> looses all basis for criticizing them of their failures.
> 
> In any event, I have no horse in this race and I am more or less
> ignorant of the current political issues, taking as I said a
> sabbatical from politics. I'll be voting for at least one Republican
> in this election and at least one Democrat for reasons I won't share.
> I'll be happy to say who and why after the election. I haven't given a
> reason for anyone to vote for anyone. I'm just trying to get
> politicians who are running for election to answer very reasonable
> questions. I'm interested in ensuring the democratic process, which
> requires the dissemination of information instead of disinformation,
> so that voters can make reasonable decisions. Everyone should be in
> favor of this, too, since it is the only way to ensure that we elect
> the best qualified people available. If we don't take action and make
> these demands, we have no basis for complaint. You get what you vote
> for.
> 
> And if Bouma would like to invite me to his church and have me explain
> why his pastor is offensive and wrong, I'd be more than happy to do
> so. I'm not afraid to speak my mind about any issue, no matter the
> audience, because I know exactly why I believe the things I do.
> 
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