re: #178 palomino

So even a rational guy like you bought into the bullshit for a year or two. Now imagine all the other people out there, right and left, who are less rational. Do you think there’s much chance they’ll join in a coordinated effort to create more constructive debate?

That’s not the point. The point is ultimately The O’Reilly Rule:

You cannot justify bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior.

The answer to attacks on Barack Obama’s ancestry is not a attack on Mitt Romney’s ancestry.