This isn’t about the “and be able to still share a beer” test; it’s about Armando effectively subsidizing two assholes who have done their best to both rip-off and insult Kos, Armando’s benefactor.

If Armando still wants to share a beer with idiots like you and Tacky, that’s his problem. But when he repeatedly tried to sell to the Kos community that you two were honest conservatives, that was going too far. And now that he’s providing a forum for circulating the views one of the most loathesome, intellectually-dishonest asshole reactionaries on the internet, he’s gone far beyond too far.

I’m sorry – you’ll have to do better…actually far better. If you’re incapable of throwing rocks back and forth and still share a beer, then you’ve got no future in politics. It may well be that you’ve no interest in such a thing, and if so – never mind any of this.

Yes, you’ve worked on the net-regulation issue — which was a pragmatic decision by the both of you, and for the benefit of all (ty, btw).

But that doesn’t mean you’re not also full of shit. Remember thisexchange?

Which was just one example. I won’t say that you attack Markos with the regularity and vehemence of Tacky, but you’ve done it enough that Armando might ought to think twice about recommending to our side you and your supposed decency — that is, if Armando is in any way loyal to the man who made him. And if tact and common sense should require Armando forbearance when it comes to you, it goes quadruple for Tacky.

With all that out of the way it’s still nice to see that you’re an unimaginative jackass: by repeating Tacky’s cricket-chriping insult you emphasize its lameness. Anyway, relay my best regards to Ben Domenech; and considering your party’s and ideology’s future prospects, you may want to rework that old Death Star graphic on your personal site, but that’s just a suggestion. Leaving it up as testament to your own hubris might be the better way to go.

Mr Ñ pretended to be upset… because Goldstein had talked about taking anti-anxiety pills and some lefties were amused.

He kept defending his completely indefensible argument the whole way through a 100000+ reply discussion thread, maintaining the oleaginous pomposity from beginning to end.

My God. They’ve reinvented USENET.

Armando… you utter berk.

Because Armando has gone out of his way to do business (so to speak) with you and Tacitus over the years, while at the same time you and Tacky have done nothing but beat up on Markos personally and his site as well (while concomitantly ripping him and it off).

Oh, good, another potential buyer for one of my “I’m With Stupid” T-shirts where the arrow points at the wearer’s head.

If you Yanks stop playing it like team sports (i.e. the objective is knowledge, not winning), maybe something substantive will come out of it.

Ah … takes me back.

Good times …

I love how he instantaneously appears at any mention of his name, I mean try it- just whisper cobag, it’s like saying cookie around a two year old.

As for Wangs Entangled (as the mascot of Balloon Juice called it), I read a half-dozen or so posts and I agree with your assessment. This is Armando, the guy everyone loves to hate, the poster child of BDS? His first post boiled down to “No, I really am patriotic, pleeease believe me!”

Or his second post, or first post after an initial startup period or something. I dunno, I meant to comment on it over there but never got around to it. But anyways.

Found it. To be clear, I don’t disagree with his point that accusing one’s opponent of being unpatriotic is irrelevant, a low blow, etc. But saying that he’s right on general, almost abstract principles is damning with faint praise. Money quote from the post:
Speaking for me, I love the United States of America and am devoted to its well being. Again, speaking for me, I think it is the greatest country in the world. Yes, I am one of those folks who believes in American Exceptionalism.
That is why it is particularly galling to me when I read this…

I admit, it’s not like I have a solution to the problem all planned out and ready to go. But the first post from the right of that blog says that the intent of the Fighting Dems thing is a deliberate deception to hide the Democrat’s total lack of concern for the troops (implying along the way that the Republicans do care, and the most important thing for the troops is as much combat as possible). What’s Armando’s response? To go on the defensive right out of the gate. I may not be able to “fix” Swords Crossed, but it pretty obviously needs fixing.

Is the whole debating thing just stupid–doomed to devolve into Daily-Show-type “Even Stephen” routines (which I dearly miss)–or can something substantive ever come out of them?

Make for a good site banner.

Nope, I don’t care how good you are with words, COBAGS!! You can’t defend what bush/cheney and company have wrought. And you will be consigned to the dustbin of history along with all the flakes and cranks that jumped on this evil bandwagon of death in the last five years.

mikey

damn, have i been hanging around the wrong parts of the internets!!