comes in many different forms Tom. Your style is demeaning and confrontational. When others bring up ideas that differ from yours, you don't brainstorm or compromise. You attack and name-call.

You make little digs at the person implying that they're intellectually lazy and allow others to do the thinking for them. You have often questioned the patriotism and morals of the person you oppose.

Opposition is welcome as long as there's reason and respect behind it. We all tried it with you and got burned every time. Don't confuse the current conversations with what I believe is proper debate style. You squandered that respect factor long ago and no longer rate civil discourse.

You had a prime chance when Bowser posted rants against the latest hate talk from Rush Limbaugh to jump in with condemnation of that crap and what did you do instead - attacked the messenger. It's no wonder many from your party are jumping ship seeing that kind of blind obedience from people they formerly respected.

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