Excuses what behavior? Personal shots at Meghan? She brought the fight to conservatives with her constant harping, mudslinging and name calling. Of course there are going to be many who will respond in kind.
When Meghan decides to pontificate and muse and throw barbs at the heavyweights in the Republicans, she's the one who has opened up a whole can of whoop ass on her ass.
Honestly, do you really believe this child of McCain deserves "special treatment" when she enters the full contact sports of Washington politics?
I don't. She reaps what she sows.
I believe that everyone deserves the same treatment, and in no case should that treatment include being the target of "die whore" comments. I find it stunning that anyone can defend this as being a reasonable way to behave towards anyone.
The GOP should condemn, without reservation, anyone making such comments. That's called leadership, and would gain my respect.
Oh for crying out loud, people insult each other without reservation on the internet all the time.
Who said "die whore"? Some 13 year old in Omaha?
Give me a break. Show me where Michelle Malkin or Laura Ingram or Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachman has said "die whore" and I'll condemn it.
ETA: if Meghan can't take twitter insults from no name faceless people on the net, then she's not even worthy of a day's worth of posting at the USMB. I've had it suggested in my pm's from a lib that I should set myself on fire and burn to death for my political opinions.
Special. it's the internet. I'm not running around going "boo hoo".
Well, that's where you and I differ. You appear to think that political parties can ignore what is said in their name, so long as they don't say it themselves. I think that the longer they ignore it the worse it becomes and they should exhibit leadership by distancing themselves publicly from such comments. Difference of opinion.
It seems to be the case, and has been for a while now, that both sides of the aisle have pitbulls that they will deliberately allow latitude in order to placate the more extreme wings of their parties, while themselves maintaining a discreet but largely silent distance.
This kind of thing stifles policy debate because so much bandwidth is dedicated to personal attacks. Then again, a lot of people seem more comfortable with personal issues because they don't fully understand the political ones. For clarity, this is a generalization and not an observation about you personally.
Anyway, it's a beautiful day and I'm taking the kids to the pool now. I'll happily continue this philosophical exchange later.