Reply #227: Yes and yes

[uppityperson]

Mistakes happen, apologies are accepted when given gracefully and not with "do you have a problem with that" attached as this is not any sort of apology or acknowledgment beyond the best defense is a good offense.

Yes that would have been OK if a repub had done it. I have had it happen to me, and I have been embarrassed and gotten better prepared for the next time (for instance now I carry enlistment application for the guys at the feed store for next time they go on about Mr.bush and the Iraq invasion). I do not back down from random political comments and talking with strangers about politics, even in public. I too have had someone I thought was repub turn into a dem after talking with them. It is fine with me.