I get up in the morning, I work out, I skim Twitter, I peruse several newspapers, and I get ideas that could be blog posts, but I fritter them away in Tweets before breakfast is over, and the blog lies fallow for much of the day.
So I’m going to start turning more Tweets into posts, so the conversation can occur here as well as there.
Let’s start with this one:
For all of you who accuse gun control advocates of exploiting a tragedy for political advantage: THIS is what that looks like, just FYI. You know, for future reference… https://t.co/l1NHmHjuy0
— Brad Warthen (@BradWarthen) February 21, 2018
In case the Tweet I was retweeting doesn’t show up, here’s what I was talking about:
James should apologize for his record and everyone who has ever earned the endorsement of the NRA should wake up to the carnage they’ve contributed to facilitating. 3/3
— Phil Noble (@PhilNobleSC) February 20, 2018
Of course, I was far from the only one to react this way. A couple of other Tweets on the subject:
When questioned by AP about his voting record, @PhilNobleSC said that he supported the 2014 Democratic gubernatorial nominee even though Sheheen had gotten an “A” rating from the NRA two years earlier and also supported a guns-in-bars bill. My full story: https://t.co/Xy3mxBVpd8
— Meg Kinnard (@MegKinnardAP) February 20, 2018
To which Tyler Jones responded, “Egg, meet Phil Noble’s face.”
And an American Party candidate for the House had this to say:
I would like to thank @JamesSmithforSC for taking the high road these past few weeks. The Democratic primary is getting ugly fast.#Democrats #primary #SouthCarolina
— Ryan Cowsert (@cowsertforsc) February 21, 2018
OK, that should be enough to get y’all started…
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Have we devolved into Twitter tirades as social discussion?
What’s wrong with reasoned discourse? It may be out of fashion, but it will never be out of style.
I’m trying to START a deeper discussion.
And I’m trying to address a real problem with my personal habits. I get an idea in the morning, I Tweet about it, and then I FEEL LIKE I’ve addressed it, so I never get up the interest again enough to write a blog post on it. So I end up interacting with people on the subject on Twitter (or, far worse, Facebook) and we never have the conversation here at all.
I’m trying to address that as economically as possible….
And we’re not just talking tirades her. I think Meg raised a serious point.
I think I did, too; just not as substantively…
I don’t have any problem with James Smith being pro gun – because he doesn’t strike me as being pro stupidity.
For instance, guns in bars? That is a bad idea, anywhere, anytime, anyplace. “Stand your ground”? Unregulated concealed carry? Same things. These are irresponsible positions advocated by the lunatic fringe.
I do agree, this Phil Noble guy is doing a good job raising Smith’s profile as a centrist Democrat. Between McMaster and Smith it really isn’t a contest as to who would be the better Governor for SC. The only question here, however, is will Trump so poison the Republican party that Smith has the opportunity to consolidate those moderates unwilling to continue to reflexively pull the R lever?
What’s funny about it is that Noble’s doing this is actually making Smith look better to folks like me.
Yep, but Phil, with his partisan blinders on at all times, doesn’t know that. And if he knew, he wouldn’t care. He’s all about ideological purity…
The thing about Phil is, he’s unelectable. But he runs anyway, and tries to tear down the viable guy.
I said that to a friend this afternoon and she responded, “We thought Trump was unelectable.”
Oh, thanks. That makes me feel SO much better…