I am a Republican with more questions than I have answers. As a televisions talk show host, I know of several media personalities who spread hate about Clinton because it helped to up their ratings. Then voted for him in both elections. In private they talk about their audience as if they are imbeciles. This to me seems like a very risky process. It is my feeling that these people do a vast amount of harm. I have not yet come to the conclusion that Republican leaders are right about Democrats being without leadership, courage, or backbone. That they are cattle ready for the packing house. I say, we had better remember that that was the thinking that got the Democrats into trouble. They misjudged us the young Republicans. Two weeks ago I attended a meeting where people were being told not to worry, that the Democrats were mostly broke minorities, and that we were going to see to it that they stayed that way. My questions is, how do you do that, and is it a good idea to do it. That kind of thinking takes me back to a dark, dark time for not only America, but for the world. Clinton as a person was a disappointment, but I have been a disappointment in the same areas. Bush has a train load of mistakes, is it going to help us if the Democrats turn his cold sore into Aids? Will that make us stronger as a country. I have no right to ask Democrats to give Bush a chance after the way we treated Clinton, but I am doing just that. Thank you! vanquish.com

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2001

Answers

I have to say, I'm a bit confused by your question.

Are you asking why these talk show hosts you know profess on TV to hate Clinton and then vote for them?

Or are you asking why people assume those who don't have money are dumb?

Or are you asking if people who don't have money are dumb?

Or... what?

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2001

This dude started the same topic in my forum today, as well. I think he's just pimping his site.

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2001

Wouldn't that work better with an URL?

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2001

It's at the end of his post: vanquish.com

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Yeah, you've got a lot of weird posts on your site.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

Oh.. I didn't get that far, too many sharp right turns.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

It would have been a more effective pimp if he had--oh, I don't know-- used correct spelling, grammar, and syntax. It might also have been nice if he had anything to say.

I thought "Vanquish" was some kind of toilet cleaner. Hmmmm...

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

This is the real problem with using my real name and my work e-mail address. I can't speak as freely as I'd like. Even so, I feel safe saying that vanquish.com did not seem to have anything to do with stopping the hate between Dems and the GOP, or even television talk shows. So maybe it wasn't a site pimp.

Maybe Bob has been here a few times, figures we're mostly Democrats, and is trying to patch things up with us while his folks are in power. It's odd, but apparently harmless.

P.S. Did you notice that when you forget to type in your e-mail address, greenspun refuses to take the post and tells you "Funny, but your e-mail address doesn't look like 'foobar?'" Now, that's funny stuff.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

I still think it's a site pimp. The post here is paraphrased from one of the "free articles" you can read on his website. Also, the site's main function seems to be selling his books and CDs. Starting duplicate topics on multiple Greenspun forums and then never coming back to follow up on subsequent posts smells like a message-board version of spam to me.

-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001

jennifer, I agree with you. I checked out this guy in google and he is selling all kinds of crap all over the place. and it doesn't even look like interesting crap!

-- Anonymous, April 12, 2001