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- From: nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle)
- Subject: Re: the rabid Bob Dornan
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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 19:00:21 GMT
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- dos@major.panix.com (Dave O'Shea) writes:
- >larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way) writes:
- >> Dornan resorted to the major New Right tactic - simply project your target
- >> subject to the wildest possible extreme, even far beyond any reachable
- >> connection or relevance, generalize again, and continue by ranting on
- >> about the developed extreme. Then stand back and hope some of your manure
- >> stuck.
-
- >Hate to let you down, but that's hardly a new trick; the left side of
- >the aisle has been doing it for years.
-
- I believe that both sides of the aisle are guilty. The only ones I
- would absolve of blame in this area are moderates who're more interested
- in finding members of the opposition they can work with than they are in
- pointing fingers.
-
- > Remember People For the American
- >Way screaming that Bork would "Force mandatory sterilization of female
- >workers!!!"? It's a standard attack technique of any group or person
- >that's short on actual reason and logic.
-
- Right. In all fairness I have to say that I found some of Dornan's
- comments very interesting; for example, his line-by-line comparison
- between Bill Clinton's letter to that ROTC officer and the letter from
- Sullivan Ballou that was quoted in Ken Burn's PBS _Civil_War_ series.
-
- After about 5 minutes of analysis there was no question in my mind
- that it was a pity we didn't have Sullivan Ballou on the ballot in November.
- I have to admit, however, that my reaction to Ballou's letter is somewhat
- less enthusiastic than Congressman Dornan's; perhaps I'm blinded by
- hindsight and cynicism, but my reaction when I hear his words of selfless
- devotion and simple piety is not that he was a magnificent hero but rather
- just a poor bloody fool.
-
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