You are a Cheney-Bush sycophant, first and foremost. You care not a whit about conservative values, including fiscal discipline, competency and keeping the government out of the private lives of citizens.

You made clear you believe that the Bush administration has done nothing wrong. Every failure of this administration was excused by you. I have many conservative Republican friends, and not one of them excuses all the misdeeds of this administration as you did in skymutt's diary.

You are not a real conservative. You are an excuser.

That's what I learned.

No Certified GoRight Replies to my latest round of precision-crafted one-liners?  Darn... I had some good ones in there, but I will respect your decision to move on.

Did this exercise change anyone's mind?  Highly doubtful.  Of course, the changed mind is the crown jewels of political message boards-- highly valued, and extremely rare-- so having not changed anyone's mind is nothing new.

Did this exercise garner any new perspectives?  Any disaster that can be reduced to one line must be survivable, right?  Maybe the lesson is that as horrible a President as some of us think Bush is, life goes on for us, and that most of us will survive Bush's reign of incompetence, and better days lie ahead, so we should keep a sense of humor about it all and not let ourselves become bitter about things we have little control over.

Did this exercise provide any additional insights?  Nothing earth shattering-- you learned about a couble of Bush foibles, which you of course quickly denied were foibles at all.  But at least you now are aware that the President was advised by a shoplifter :-)

Did this exercise build any new bridges between the factions?  Probably, in that  the format largely kept personal attacks out of the equation, so the back-n-forth was largely good-natured.

Was this exercise "fun" for you, and if so why?  Yes I enjoyed it quite a bit.  There was a challenge aspect of removing the fat from my responses to keep them within the subject line, and many of the responses  gave me a chuckle.

Do you prefer this style of interaction over a more verbose styles of debate?  I liked it as a change of pace-- sure.

What were the most important points that you took away from this exercise?  It's a reminder that we can disagree without being (overly) disagreeable.

What did you learn about yourself?  I like to get in the last word.  (Okay-- I already knew that about myself :-)

What did you learn about others?  People just can't help defying authority.  I make a rule of no duplicates, and what does CLC do?  Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, right off the bat.  (It's ok, CLC.. all is forgiven :-)  Somewhere along the line, the hard-and-fast rule prohibiting use of the body of the messages became a guideline, but that worked out okay, so no complaints.

If you participated, what drew you into the discussion?  My diary obv-- call me mean-spirited, but I can't resist an opportunity to get in some jabs at Bush.

As a final word to you, GoRight-- I really give you an A+, not a B+, for your participation in the diary, and, for the most part, your overall participation on the site.  You seem to keep a sense of humor about things while pulling the weight of about 5 right wingers around here.  It just wouldn't be the same if you weren't here.