You say this isn’t about electing the anointed Democrat, then follow it up with a huge pile of media attacks on Republican candidates

Media attacks? The candidates actually said those things... its their words that are at issue here...

n an issue that, frankly, isn’t the most critical thing going on right now,

It's not the most critical thing right now? Then why are the candidates focusing on it in order to attack Obama... why are they seriously discussing which freedoms and ideals to do away with...

A national database for tracking Muslims? A religious test for getting sanctuary?

but it is nicely within the Democratic “racism” comfort zone. Based on the past few months, it’s apparently all they’ve got.

You are aware enough to recognize that the GOP DOES have a serous issue with the racism in its ranks... and support for banning the refugees IS largly rooted in bigotry- "Well, maybe we can let the good CHRISTIAN ones in..."

But the reason your candidates have done a 180 on this issue is far more venal than just simple bigotry... it is a calculated move to appeal to the worst part of the GOP voting block.

And DROP THE BULLSHIT that their change of heart was brought on by the death of 130 Parisians - We lose more american lives than that every few days to gun violence and the same candidates just shrug and say thats the cost we have to pay for our american ideals...

BEN CARSON-"As a Doctor, I spent many a night pulling bullets out of bodies. There is no doubt that this senseless violence is breathtaking – but I never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away".

Of course this is political. Every last thing the Democrats say or do is about gaining and keeping domestic political power. And when the NYT said “frog,” you jumped.

My position never changed TB... You can say the democratic candidates are only for letting the refugees in because it somehow advances their poll numbers (though you have not come up with a convincing argument for how it does)... but you know that politics aside, offering refuge to those people is the moral thing to do, it is the just thing to do, and it is the American thing to do...

That is why you have been so uncomfortable dealing with the facts of the issue and keep trying to shift the argument to "the democrats are playing politics".

Then you posted a picture of a drowned boy, as if letting Syrian refugees into the U.S. without delay would make any difference to the two thousand people who have drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean.

You kept trying to make the argument about 2 bad actors out of tens of thousands of legitimate refugees in a different refugee crisis... you dont get to do that without being forced to acknowledge that the real face of the refugees is that of desperate people willing to risk their lives to escape creatures like ISIS...

You may want to avoid recognizing the humanity of these people, don't expect me to play along.

If the picture shocked you, good- it should... THOSE are the people that you are saying we should slam the door on... NOT the couple of guys that you cherry picked out of over 70,000...

The hell of it is I KNOW that you know this is wrong... but you are so invested in the politics of this that you feel you must do battle in support of the party line... and for that I am not sure if I should feel pity- or disgust.