Reply #16: Can't endure being taught what?...

[cascadiance]

Look I'm as liberal and progressive in my thinking as many people I know. I get called socialist by many who know me. I don't get off being lectured:

a) repeatedly for "incorrectly" putting up a subject line, when it was the moderator that had difficulty locating the proper article heading, not me. I'm not sure what I'm being taught there, except that sometimes one has to endure bureaucratic mess on this board, when I'm trying to be posting nicely in what I think the spirit is of everyone here.
b) for saying "Democrats" have cahonas to challenge this election (note not Frye, like you allege I did). If you have a problem with having other people accusing women of having cahonas, then why don't you criticize the many people that have the same thing about Boxer this week. I see it as a compliment, not a ridicule. What am I being "taught" there.
c) for distinguishing between Donna Frye's *not* conceding her race for mayor versus my concern that Kerry conceded too early before his constituency would have liked him to. I'm not sure why I'm being criticized for that. Many other Democrats and other progessives out there are having the same feelings of concern that our party can't fight back when we have to. I just try to point out that there's cases where we are fighting back, and I'm supposed to be "taught" that this the wrong thing to say?

I asked the mods to close this thread and redirect traffic to another one that I created that had a newer article that fit more with the rules of being less than 12 hours old, and actually had one useful response on that one before a mod closed it and redirected it back to this one.

I think that the only thing that I've been "taught" by this thread is that there are just as many sanctimonious people calling themselves Democrats as there are Republicans. Doesn't make me feel any better.

I didn't pose this thread to start a fight with Dems and criticize them/us for not fighting back there. I started it more to look at the potentially encouraging news of what might happen in the San Diego Mayor's race. I get the feeling that noone really cares about that. I'm sorry if I'm raising hackles with you and others that have succeeded in hijacking this thread (whether that was your intent or not), but it sure isn't encouragement for generating lively and thoughtful discussion when I get lectured too instead of a thoughtful discussion, especially when many of what's being lectured to me wasn't correct, substantive, or from my perspective that important anyway.

Well mods, you might as well lock this thread too. I guess noone wants to talk about Donna Frye's chances in court in Orange County. I'm sure she'd be glad to hear that. Might save her some money and time if she didn't go through with teaming up with those filing the "useless" lawsuit.