I was referring to the other responses, not yours.

Considering that have denied either, I consider that to be an implied acceptance of my charge — that you recognize you are angry, and that you are communicating fear (perhaps intentionally.)

The charge was so silly I didn’t bother to reply.

I never said you were a Republican. (I know you are a libertarian.)

I never used the word “deranged”. I said you are “angry” and that you “communicate fear”.

Considering that have denied either, I consider that to be an implied acceptance of my charge — that you recognize you are angry, and that you are communicating fear (perhaps intentionally.)

I am not angry with you. (I am angry with what has happened to the Republican Party.)

I ask that you to take your off-topic charges elsewhere.

– Al

You have made up your mind, and in your anger you only look for pieces of data that fit your conclusion, and ignore everything else. You are compelled to do this. Passionate about finding that latest gotcha, that you leap at anything that might help you confirm your views.

While I was never going to vote for Obama, I didn’t have a big problem with him initially, until I started to learn more about him, and I learned things that he has struggled mightily, and with much success (aided by a fawning press) to keep hidden from most of the voters. Now that these things are finally coming out, you’re angry with me?

Let’s review the bidding. I simply pointed out an inconvenient reality about Barack Obama to one of the mesmerized. The response was not to rebut it, or say “I didn’t know that,” but to accuse me of drinking koolaid and to call me deranged.

I think that the psychological term for this is called “projection.”

Rand,

I have read your blog. I used to respect your thinking. But you have totally lost it. You only anger these days. You only communicate fear. And mud sling. And name call.

As a man of reason, you are committing a fallacy of logic. You have made up your mind, and in your anger you only look for pieces of data that fit your conclusion, and ignore everything else. You are compelled to do this. Passionate about finding that latest gotcha, that you leap at anything that might help you confirm your views. You have doing this for months.

You like to talk about “fascists”, and have repeatedly suggested/implied that Obama is fascist. But in your anger, it appears that you have missed where the fascist tendencies truly are emerging.

The hate and anger and fear being stirred up by McCain over the last month is the bringing out the worst in people. The Republicans only have fear and hate to run on.

Republicans used to be the party of hope & optimism & reason & principal. It was Not any more.

Where is the hope & optimism? Where is the reason & principal?

I love THAT party. Where is it?

Where is the party of Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America”?

It is gone. It has been taken over by the ghost of Tom Delay in the current form of Shawn Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Sarah Palin. Instead of a party of ideas, we have bumper-sticker campaigning. The growing anti-intellectualism of those who are left in the Republican party is being driven by fear and anger.

They have nothing to be for, so they can only run on what they are against.

And now YOU are only communicating fear and anger That is all you have … fear & anger.

In other words, you have lost it.

– Al

PS — I could easily go back to McCain’s history and selectively pick out facts to paint a story of a disingenous and misleading man. But I will not. Doing so would be a logical fallacy.

Possibly because it isn’t true, no matter how often it’s repeated.

You should see his blog. It’s one long obsessive rant about Obama. Obama Derangement Syndrome. He went over the edge a long time ago.