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Orrex

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69. But that's not the situation that you described.

Reply to YarnAddict (Reply #67)

Wed Jul 2, 2014, 02:31 PM

Jul 2014

You wrote:

I have women friends who are staunchly "pro life," and vote R for that reason.

You described them as single-issue voters, so that's what I was addressing.

These women are explictly voting against the interests of women and children and LGBT and unions and infrastructure, all for the sake of Republican lip-service that flatters these women's pro-life sensibilities. That's stupid.

You may not agree with them, but that doesn't make them stupid, any more than your views make you stupid.

Well, since you opted to move the goal posts after I replied, I ask that you allow me to do the same. Rather than simply calling them "stupid," I will instead call them "politically stupid." They might be intelligent people, but they are making stupid political choices.

If we could get past the name-calling, I think we'd all be better off.

Name-calling is as old as the spoken word and probably predates it.

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Except for the group of them that votes Republican Orrex Jul 2014 #15

I have women friends who YarnAddict Jul 2014 #24

They are stupid because are single-issue voters Orrex Jul 2014 #27

Well, YarnAddict Jul 2014 #67

But that's not the situation that you described. Orrex Jul 2014 #69

Just an example YarnAddict Jul 2014 #72

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