Be careful who you forward those RW emails to!

[eppur_se_muova]

Someone forwarded one of those "satirical" Clinton-bashing emails (in the form of a "Dear Abby" letter) to my mom. She decided she had had enough of that and composed her own in reply:

Dear Abby, My husband has the honor of having the highest office in the land. He
hoodwinked voters by pretending to be a very religious man. Yet he is constantly being
caught lying to serve his own purposes, causing the loss of many of our young men in the so
called patriotism to our country. This so called righteous man, called the man who ran
against him, and who actually served in Viet Nam, a liar, and distorted the truth about him,
when he, the present high office holder, found a way not to fight in the war, by being in the
National Guard, and who campaigned for his Father during that time instead of even
serving in the National Guard. Abby, I think if most people had a choice, they would rather
have a president who lied about a brief affair (or one blow job) with a young woman who
was chasing him, who did not cause the death of ANYONE by this brief incident, than one
who will lie to send our men to a country where they have been fighting since Biblical
times, to find the culprit of 911, and then got sidetracked and invaded another country
instead. Since my background is being a school teacher, and I know we are supposed to be
teaching our children about honesty and ethics, what can I say to my husband about being
such a chronic liar to serve his own purposes. Former Teacher

Dear Teacher. I think you are in a losing battle. Chronic liars cannot be cured. They
cannot distinguish right from wrong. Right is what is good for them, and wrong is wrong
only if it affects their goals. Get rid of him and go back to teaching.

[classof56]

1. Love it! Kudos to your mom !

This is a great rebuttal--is she okay with others of us using her words? I'd like to keep this for future reference!

Tired Old rCynic

[eppur_se_muova]

2. I asked her permission before passing it on, so yes. nt

[The Wizard]

3. I replied to one of the Clinton

internet rumors with: the fictitious story has it's origins with Rush Limbaugh's gay lover.
Haven't gotten another since then.

[calimary]

6. Now, THAT'S a keeper! AND well worth spreading!

Hey, if they can do it, SO CAN I. And with GREAT relish (and ketchup and mustard and a cherry on top)! :D

YES I know it's bad. YES I know we should be above such things. YES I know it means, to some ways of thinking, that we're no better than they are and we're lowering ourselves to their level. YES I know it's beneath us and we ARE better than that so we should never wallow in such filth.

I don't care.

If they can do it, SO WILL I.

If they're gonna dish it out, they BETTER be ready to take it. Orally or anally. I don't care.

At least SOME of us HAVE to respond this way, even if it means wallowing in such filth. Because NOT to do so is to wind up like John Kerry after the swifties picked his carcass clean. I'd much rather fight back. And fight back HARD.

They won't keep doing it if it doesn't help them meet their objectives: to beat you, to intimidate you into silence or cowering or changing YOUR position over to theirs ("I'd rather switch than fight"), to get you to go away, to get you to look foolish and like a big, fat chump. Far better that it be turned around to hurt THEM in some way - either by frustrating their efforts to reach their goal, making them look bad or stupid (and a loser ALWAYS looks both bad AND stupid to these people and their friends and admirers), OR, better yet, make them come around to see that this is NO GOOD IN ANY DIRECTION (including their own).

Sometimes the only way to make these people stop is for them to get caught or called on it, or forced to have to eat this bitter meal, themselves.

Another really critical thing here is that THE DOTS HAVE TO BE CONNECTED. This can't happen in a vacuum. The punchline of all this should always be - "I'LL stop when YOU do."

I actually called john boehner's office one day, objecting to the term "Democrat Party" and such, and I pointed out to the staffer who answered that the congressman risks being called BONER in public - all over the country - until this stops. Now, imagine what might happen if legions of us did that?

[The Wizard]

7. Our adversaries

lie without compunction. They depend on us to always be honest. Liars depend on others to tell the truth. They're pathological. Lawyers catch liars during cross examination by adding false facts to questions to get the witness to agree to it. There's no point in being honest with crazy people. I think it was Mark Twain who said the best part of telling the truth was that you don't have to think about it. By all means lie to publicans, especially about politics. They have become a cult and will not accept the truth.
Oh yeah, he's Boner. English grammar dictates Boner. The laws of phonetics dictate Boner. Yeah, it's Boner.

[Cabcere]

4. Your mom rules. End of story.

:applause: :woohoo: :yourock:

[annabanana]

5. I hope she hit the "reply to all" button!

Get this little missive to as many wingnuts as possible!