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August 21, 2006

Do people really believe liberals would stop spying on terrorists?

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his is remarkable to me in many ways, though not in the way most commenters took my post last week asking whether Bush is merely inarticulate or stupid. What I find more remarkable than the real answer is the way right-wingers are beginning to turn on Bush. Bush’s defender is reduced to saying: "We’d stop spying on the terrorists if the Democrats are elected." Do people honestly believe that? I suppose they do.

Posted by Peter at August 21, 2006 11:29 PM

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Do people honestly believe that? I suppose they do.

I'm sure there are some people who do. Big country.

But I think that is beside the point. Most of the people making the argument don't think about the truth values of what they say. Scoring partisan points is what matters - the truth of the matter is beside the point.

Posted by: fishbane at August 22, 2006 3:05 PM

I'm not so sure it's that easy. There is, I think, a good portion of the counry that genuinely has been convinced that "liberals" consider security from terrorists a trivial matter. It's the job of liberals to convince them otherwise.

Posted by: Peter at August 22, 2006 8:18 PM