Quote Originally Posted by Lady's Human View Post
If one calls a person an idiot, one is simply calling that person an idiot.

If one calls an elected official an idiot, you are by extension calling those who voted for the individual in question idiots at best.

I fail to see why you are so huffy about a simple request to keep political discourse above the schoolyard level. Is it because you are in fact incapable of doing so yourself?
What I am "huffy about" is your inability to admit your bias. Just tell me why it doesn't bother you when RICHARD calls Nancy Pelosi a moron but it bothers you that Donna calls Bush an idiot.

Gosh...when you look at it like that it becomes rather obvious, doesn't it?

But to take your logic (or illogic) to the next step...if I call Blagojevich a crook, am I calling everyone who voted for him a crook?

If I call Randy Cunningham a theft, am I calling the people who voted for him thieves?

If I call Larry Craig a lying closet homosexual, am I calling the people who voted for him that?

Of course not. That would be silly.

Getting elected does not protect people from the same label you feel comfortable putting on fellow posters.

Does the schoolyard equal the barnyard? And does calling fellow poster count as schoolyard behavior -- or just barnyard?