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You haven't lost your ability to amaze me, Tom

So, you think that the Quakers are part of the Vast Anti-RightWing Conspiracy? They just adopted pacifism recently as a political tactic to undermine Dubya and the Republicans? And oooh, horrors!:

I submit that their politics are pretty much identical to those of Moveon.org or ANSWER, except with charity thrown in.


Yes, thanks for pointing out that we've all had causality reversed--Quakers believe what they believe because MoveOn.org told them to believe it. Yep, the Quakers get their marching orders from ANSWER.

Quakers abhor violence.


You got that part right. That you evidently consider it a mark against the Quakers says a lot about RightWingers, doesn't it?

You keep drawing distinctions between the Right and other groups, yet some of those groups you despise occupy the moral high ground as far as I'm concerned. You may think you're making the Right look better by comparison, but to those of us who respect the principles of people like the Quakers, you only confirm the moral bankruptcy of the Right.

Not the Quakers are perfect, and not all Quakers live up to their own standards. I'll bet when challenged to name the most notorious Quaker in history, most people will think of Richard Nixon. See what happens when a RightWinger repudiates the Quaker philosophy?

Tom, do you ever come up for air and wonder whether your partisan extremism hasn't crossed the line into insanity? Does it ever cross your mind that if your Enemies List has grown to include people like the Quakers, your position has drifted far, far away from moral legitimacy?

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