{"id":3031,"date":"2012-07-10T13:23:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T20:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/10\/keeping-score\/"},"modified":"2012-07-14T09:39:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T16:39:53","slug":"keeping-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/keeping-score\/","title":{"rendered":"keeping score"},"content":{"rendered":"

RE: (click box to see cartoon)
\n\"Brooks<\/a><\/p>\n

My statement, “And now they [the left] control the Elbert County Republican Party,” has apparently unhinged the Elbert County Leftist [ECL] McShay.<\/p>\n

Next time, before an ECL member launches into a potentially libelous rant, he should read<\/em> more carefully.\u00a0 I said, “And now<\/em> they control ….” \u00a0\u00a0 I didn’t say, “And then<\/em> they controlled….”\u00a0 McShay has confused causation of alleged incidents in the past, with present and future causation.\u00a0 The two simply cannot connect.<\/p>\n

My reasoning for saying, “And now they control the Elbert County Republican Party,” is based on the assumption that the Elbert County Republican Party has a goal of electing Republicans to local offices.\u00a0 I believe this is actually in their bylaws.<\/p>\n

As has\u00a0 been substantiated in multiple writings, and as was again substantiated in the Denver Post excerpt within the blog item carrying the above quoted statement<\/a>, the winners of the Republican primary in Elbert County associate with Democrats.\u00a0 They’re liked by Democrats, they share policies with Democrats, they’re published on a Democrat web site, and they even smoke cigars with Democrats and hang out socially.<\/p>\n

So, reasonably, evidently, observably, I call them leftists.\u00a0 Democrats are leftists, so they must be too.\u00a0 It’s no stretch to connect those dots.<\/p>\n

Now, and this is where McShay should pay close attention, if the Republican Party exists to elect Republicans, but they’ve instead elected known leftists, a reasonable person could conclude that leftists now control the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

This is an important fact to keep in mind as the ECL takes over majority control of the BOCC for the next 4 years.\u00a0 What the ECL plan to do to Elbert County, the oppressive zoning, the takings of private property rights, increasing taxes, the suppression of commerce, the preservation of horse pastures, etc., these things are going to fall squarely at the feet of the ECL.<\/p>\n

They wanted the power, they went out and got it, now they own the consequences.\u00a0 No more blaming Republicans.\u00a0 Sorry, that card has been removed from the deck.<\/p>\n

Official BOCC decisions in the past in Elbert County cannot be directly ascribed to the ECL, however, the list of ECL talking points McShay detailed in his above referenced cartoon, points that also comprised the substance of Rowland’s and Ross’s campaign rhetoric, have all been factually rebutted or shown to be of no consequence.\u00a0 So those talking points at least can’t be ascribed to Republicans either.\u00a0 Maybe it’s because they don’t really exist?<\/p>\n

Anyway, whatever I say will be formed into an unsavory mudball by the ECL and hurled at me with invective, ad hominem, innuendo, unsavory name calling and various misrepresentations.\u00a0 It’s what they do, and it’s what one gets who has the temerity to criticize our leftist overlords.<\/p>\n

I try to remain philosophical about these personal attacks from the ECL.\u00a0 If they want to keep pulling their pants down to show their literary junk to the world, I figure the least I can do is comment about it, even though that apparently makes them keep doing it.\u00a0 They intend to silence those who dissent from their orthodoxy.\u00a0 That isn’t going to happen here.<\/p>\n

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RE: (click box to see cartoon) My statement, “And now they [the left] control the Elbert County Republican Party,” has apparently unhinged the Elbert County Leftist [ECL] McShay. Next time, before an ECL member launches into a potentially libelous rant, he should read more carefully.\u00a0 I said, “And now they control ….” \u00a0\u00a0 I didn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rinos-and-dems","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}