I find as time goes by that I can tell, almost to the moment when a liberal with who is actively discussing an issue runs out of intellectual fuel. The moment can be identified by a statement, put forth by the aformentioned liberal, that fails to forward a salient point or a reasoned rejoinder to an argument put forth by a conservative thinker. Instead, the progressive begins to use descriptive adjectives pointing to some physical imperfection on the part of a well-known conservative that promotes a similar point of view to the position being elucidated. Instead of "I disagree with you position based on the following.....", suddenly the liberal begins to say "You sound just like that fat Rush Limbaugh" or "That is just what George Bush would say (not that President Bush could be called a conservative by any stretch of the imagination), and we all know how stupid he is!".
When the liberal begins to describe his political opponents' physical faults, you know you have won the rational argument. The liberal, of course, will be blissfully unaware of his intellectual vapidity and will think that calling someone "fat" or "ugly" will suffice for a position.
It won't.
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