They Will Never Admit Anything

Recently, I had a nice lunch with a charming young woman who happens to be a Republican. She also happens to be a reader of this blog. She was upset with me for my "constant conservative bashing". Specifically, my post about how liberals can admit when they lose or do something wrong, but conservatives never do.

You may recall that I wrote about that after the differing reactions to the Presidential debates.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure she ended up completely agreeing with my point, though I can't remember because I was drunk.

The next day I saw an interview with Obama on NBC, and he said as President he's made "tons of mistakes". I thought this was remarkable because I remembered that George W. Bush didn't make a single mistake as President, according to him.

Then I was on twitter, and I got into a little spat with one of the conservatives I follow. If you're not aware, on the campaign trail Mitt Romney told a big, fat lie about Jeep deciding to send all of their jobs overseas.

Romney claimed he read about it somewhere. But that somewhere turned out to be a conservative blog which had simply misread a Bloomberg article. It was bullshit and everyone knows it...except for conservatives. Romney stands by it, and so do all of his fans.

So this gentleman that I follow on twitter tweeted: "The Obama Camp is almost completely based on provably false statements...so I won't be taking the Jeep outrage seriously."

I took this to mean that because the Obama campaign is based on lies, according to him, they're not allowed to be mad that Romney was lying. My point to him was that all of us as voters should be upset when either campaign lies.

Of course, he didn't like that too much so we went back and forth a little bit. He tweeted to me: "free to call out Mitt on Jeep, but you better also be calling out all of Obama's distortions or you are being a hypocrite."

 I replied "that's exactly my point, a lie is a lie no matter who says it".

And then for some reason he tweeted: "so you admit you have never called out Obama's countless lies? Thought so. One of us is a hack, but it isn't me."

I don't know where he got that from, but let's not quibble. I decided to try a different approach. I tweeted this to him:

"let's try something: i say that the obama cancer ad about romney was despicable. okay? now you call out something romney has done. go..."

What happened next? Well, he didn't respond. But I didn't let up, because I am an asshole. I tweeted "I'm waiting..." several times. Then asked why he couldn't do it.

Finally, he responded:

 "I can, you just aren't worth the time or effort. You can go search my tweets. Although Romney never had anything = cancer ad."

HA HA!

"You aren't worth the time or effort"! He had tweeted at me at least 10 times before this! But he doesn't have the time, you guys. He's busy not admitting stuff. 

Are you fucking kidding me? This is who the other side is? Why can't they do it? Why are they so afraid? How are they all on the same exact page on this not giving an inch bullshit? It's really incredible.

So to my young conservative friend, these are your people.