tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post4598571333032249518..comments2023-10-16T07:13:12.123-05:00Comments on A plain blog about politics: The Complexities of GOP EtiquetteJonathan Bernsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-65812561290908849852011-07-20T09:53:13.490-05:002011-07-20T09:53:13.490-05:00"Do you really expect Paul Ryan and Allen Wes..."Do you really expect Paul Ryan and Allen West to have an identical sense of etiquette?"<br /><br />Wouldn't have necessarily expected it, considering their different backgrounds - unless I had been watching closely enough to notice that they are both supremely self-regarding petulant hard-blowing demagogues. <br /><br />I might also have noted that both receive embarrassingly erotic responses from the hard right base. Go visit some rightroots blogs reacting to West or Ryan, on either or for that matter virtually any incident. <br /><br />So, on further consideration, yes, not only do I expect them to have very similar senses of etiquette, I think they observably do: Each seems to believe that he excretes rainbows complete with pots of gold, and nothing else, and that anyone who doubts it and says so is deserving of suspicion. The very definition of bad manners would therefore be to express such doubts publicly, whether to his face or behind his back. For some people, there's apparently no difference.CK MacLeodhttp://ckmacleod.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-75995478696656532392011-07-20T00:22:52.602-05:002011-07-20T00:22:52.602-05:00These are two very different people you’re compari...These are two very different people you’re comparing here. Do you really expect Paul Ryan and Allen West to have an identical sense of etiquette?<br /><br />In any case, no one with a genuine sense of etiquette would allow themselves to say such things -- this is nothing more than pure partisan rancor on display.Couveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00926561539205771774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-82934000688620950022011-07-19T23:16:45.218-05:002011-07-19T23:16:45.218-05:00(And for anyone who doesn't click through to t...(And for anyone who doesn't click through to the Politico story, Rep. West demands that DNC Chair Wasserman-Schultz "stop being a coward and say it to my face"... <i>in an e-mail</i>.)<br /><br />I believe the word in South Florida that applies here is "oy". Or possibly "choots pah".JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-46595050747847180272011-07-19T19:11:11.385-05:002011-07-19T19:11:11.385-05:00For which we, your readers, award you the Catch Of...For which we, your readers, award you the Catch Of The Day.Gordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14660252332090242623noreply@blogger.com