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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Edwin Meese
Message-ID: <879@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 11:57:11 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  8 11:57:11 1986
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In article <3630043@csd2.UUCP> sykora@csd2.UUCP (Michael Sykora) writes:
> >/* mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) /  7:21 pm  Jan  5, 1986 */
> 
> >Golly, I want to play that game too.  Can you say CHILDISH GLOATER??
> 
> AS I didn't vote for Reagan, I can't be a gloater  --  childish or otherwise.

Ok, I'll spell it out for you nice and simple, so that you understand.

Calling someone a SORE LOSER is plain and simple an ad-hominem attack.
Just one of your many dishonesties (since you challenged someone else
to produce evidence.)  I've simply demonstrated that if you want to play
that game, others can too.

And of course you're wrong: you can be gloating over the discomfort that
Sevener (I think) felt about Reagan's policies, or even over the
opportunity to call him a sore loser.  You can't disprove a position by
merely discrediting one possible explanation.  And of course that missed
the entire point of the "I want to play too."

The fact is that Reagan is much more skillful at the "teflon" game than
you are: you get stuck.

> It is quite clear that the fact that Reagan was elected doesn't necessarily
> justify any particular policy that he pursues.

It's about time you admitted the premise of Sevener's argument.  Your call
for specific data was reasonable.
-- 

Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh