Some want kowtowing to a minority of people who refused to vote for clinton.

[Jim Lane]

97. What is this, Straw Man Week on DU?

It's always been a problem with this site but lately it seems to be proliferating.

You write, "No one here is buying your rosy picture of JPR as just a place for free thinkers." I didn't say it was a rosy place. What I actually said was that (1) JPR does not require people to take an oath not to vote for Hillary, and (2) during the campaign, posts advocating a vote for Hillary were allowed there.

Those are both objective facts. If you want to opine that to state those facts is to "normalize that cesspool", you're entitled to your opinion, but it won't alter the facts.

Are there posters on JPR who hate Hillary and oppose the Democratic Party? Absolutely. I of course never said otherwise. I just have this weird, idiosyncratic belief that it's wrong to tell lies, even about people with whom you disagree. On occasion I've even defended Ted Cruz when I thought the truth (he's legally eligible to be President) called for it. And I will DARE to continue to do so.