Reply #1: I think you make an important point. [View All]

Let me preface by saying that I don't go "out there" much, and so I have no idea at all which posters this might apply to. One of the reasons I don't join in is it upsets me too much to hear all the lies. Politics is hardball, and I'm more the tea-and-cookies type, I'm afraid to say.

I can liken it to the way I felt (which I posted on a few weeks back) when I put my first Kerry for President bumper sticker on my car in 2003. My first thought was, "Well so much for driving like a Masshole." (not that I ever do, mind you ;-)) Because anyone I cut off would notice my sticker and generalize about the kind of people who support Kerry.

This also brought to mind that runin with idiocy we had on the Boston Phoenix blog a while back. We won someone over that time with our humor, our intelligence, and our command of the facts.

And there's a general desire out there to bring everyone down into the mud. It's important to remember that anything we say can and will be used against JK - any time, any place.