Whatever the case, I did’t find support for either of your premises:

1) ‘name calling’ == good
2) Republicans as a group think ‘name calling’ == good

in the linked article. You may think using words to put your opponent and their policy positions in a bad light, and to do the reverse for your own person and policies, is roughly defined as “name calling”, but I guess it would not be the first time you got something wrong. *shrug*

I did read the more than what you linked to at the http://www.informationclearinghouse.info site and was surprised that you found information sourced there credible. “The shackles of oil and Israel…”? How special.

Did Mark Ritchie and Mark Holsten both unplug the state’s interweb this weekend?

“Or are both conditions true and you respect people who, in your opinion, behave badly?”

Also, do you really regard:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

as a good and reliable source of information TommyJohnson? I’d call that interesting, but not in a good way. :-/

You do remember Gingrich’s treatise, entitled Language – A Key Mechanism Of Control, doncha?

Please show me where in law it is required that the Secretary of State has all filings for public available on a website.

Seriously. I would really like to see that law. If it exists, I will join you in saying that he is violating the law, but I would bet large sums of cash that you will not even respond to this request, because the law you created in your head does not exist.

Your parents obviously didn’t heed the warnings back then though, did they?

“your own slavish devotion your party’s candidates”

to which TommyJohnson responded:

“Hardly, and the death penalty is but one issue”

I said candidates, TommyJohnson, not issues. Please read more carefully.

“Team Franken has built a very, Very, VERY good field team”

Well, for so “very” good a team, they don’t seem to have moved everyone in the DFL Franken’s way. Nor has this “Very” good team gotten in MDE’s way as he shows Franken to be stooge on a very regular basis. I guess we have a difference of opinion on what constitutes “VERY” good, TommyJohnson.

Is name calling a “very, Very, VERY” good debate tactic?

Hardly, and the death penalty is but one issue.

And besides, I now “belong to no organized party; I’m a Democrat.”

The DFL had an open and hotly contested race for endorsement in the 3rd CD; your party “leadership” annointed Erik Paulson and you bootlickers fell in line.

“Besides, I used to be a Republican.”

I’m wondering TommyJohnson, what made you a Republican? When you were one, I mean.

It is, in some ways, amusing to read you repeatedly calling others “bootlickers” while actively demonstrating your own slavish devotion your party’s candidates, but jokes do get old.

“Wow! I wasn’t aware that Mark Ritchie was also the State of Minnesota webmaster.”

The “State of Minnesota webmaster”? You are not well informed on this topic. Please, pipe down West Metro Dem. Hint: The “State of Minnesota” does not have one webmaster, or even one team of webmasters.

“Websites go down when they have lots of hits.”

No, a web site may “go down” when it takes more hits than it was designed to take. There are many ways to make sure your web site does not “go down”.

“you can’t really blame him for this one.”

Really? Who should be blamed? I would blame the person responsible. Who is responsible for enacting the duties of the SOS?

That would be the SOS.

“No wonder there is no dialog between parties. It’s just not possible with people who can’t discuss issues – only call others they disagree with names.”

At a minimum, Al Franken has a more than 10 year career of being exactly the polarizing, hate-mongering figure that American politics can do without. There’s no dialog between parties EXACTLY because of people like your Senate candidate, Al Franken. And about the best he can do is call names and insult anyone who disagrees with him.

He’s unfit to represent anyone, much less Minnesota.

If anyone is a “shameless ****” it’s Al Franken and the goddam Democrats… gimme a break.

WMD,
What point did yo make? That there are people who make it tough to have a conversation with? You pointed fingers as though the GOP only has those individuals. I challenge you to take a look around at the hate-mongers in your own party. That’s all I was trying to say.

I didn’t even make a “scurrilous comment” toward you… spare your faux-outrage for someone else.

As for Franken, he’s a grade-A hate-monger. And I ain’t talkin’ about what he wrote or did in the distant past. His entire career of “political commentary” is a statement on hate.

I’m glad you support that first-class dink. But I personally think the Democrat party can do better than that. Unfortunately, they continue to disappoint.

Do you deny my point? I did not call anyone a name. I did not make any scurrilous comments yet I received one in return. Is that discussion? I am not responsible for anyone else. Tommy is a grown man. What he does is his business. As to Al Franken, whether or not I agree with what he has written in the past, I can attest that I do agree with his position on the issue of veterans affairs whereas I do not agree with Coleman. Speaking of issues, Coleman looses all the way around.

Besides, I used to be a Republican. If you bootlickers hadn’t taken over the party, I probably would still be one. You pukes are neither Republican, nor conservative.

And the reason Franken called you jerks “shameless (delted)”, is because you are.

May God have mercy on your souls.

Thank you for showing the true “class” of the GOP…..if you will re-read my comments, there wasn’t one bit of obnoxious name-calling there. Such a classy group. No wonder there is no dialog between parties. It’s just not possible with people who can’t discuss issues – only call others they disagree with names. Hope you had a wonderful 4th. I did. As a veteran, I spent my day chatting with other veterans about their service to our country. It made me remember what I love about this country. You should try it.

And, well, Richie failed.

So Coleman Exposer, please do us all a favor and go somewhere else to commit verbal suicide. same to you, West Metro Dem…or, to quote Red Forman, “West Metro Dumbass”.

Mark Ritchie, in fact, is an untrustworthy, incompetent, partisan hack. He has no business holding the office of S.O.S. or any other.

Why have Republican S.O.S.’s not had these problems? Why is your outrage so selective?

Yoni… give us all a break. You don’t have the intellectual capacity to make judgments like that.

Sorry, Michael. Websites go down when they have lots of hits. You don’t have to like him nor like how he does his job but you can’t really blame him for this one.