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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-26-07 02:23 PM
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23. Hey, if the jackboots fit, wear 'em
It's certainly not the most eloquent way to slag someone, but fair's fair.

Having said all that, I don't see many decent applications for it in the six and a half years this board's been around. Zell Miller comes to mind; he certainly deserves it. Ben Nelson certainly walks the line enough, but even that's a bit unfair.

Lieberman's a troubling mixture: take away the blinkered love of Israel and ire at anything Arab, take away the straight-laced prudishness about smut and forget the marionette strings on his limbs that a couple of industries seem to have and he's almost a liberal. Having said all that, though, it's a case of being damned by faint praise.

The overuse of the term is tiresome, and like calling someone a nazi tends to just make the poster using it look more foolish. Most people can only deal in black and white, and they tend to get hyperemotional when their stances or candidates are assailed or impeded.

Human nature.
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