Reply #13: no offense taken

[mememe]

And I don't necessarily disagree with anything you say in your latest post. I guess the point I was trying to make is that election campaigns are not things where one side is required to sit back and keep silence when the other side advances a message. It gets to be quite tiring to see so many "here's what we should say" posts that seem to implicitly refuse to consider the possibility that a contrary side may actually say something in reply. Thus it is important to properly structure a message in order to minimize the chances of having one's argument twisted into something that works against you. I probably did a clumsy job of making that point.