# Surprise--I disagree with Marley's modding!! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 22, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-i-disagree-with-marleys-modding/641795 "2012-11-22T02:56:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-i-disagree-with-marleys-modding/641795/14 "2012-11-23T21:55:58Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > How would I know **Stratocaster** ’s voting practices or his support for various GOP candidates? Because he said very clearly that he’s a Republican. Here’s post #35, which appeared to be the post you were responding to: > [@Can a viable Republican candidate survive the primaries?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-viable-republican-candidate-survive-the-primaries/641724/35): > > The GOP (my party) recognizes that the current formula won’t work and that the brand has serious issues. […] > We have to find ways of fixing the brand, and that means showing people that we actually care about their concerns. The Dems kick our asses at appearing to feel people’s pain. All this “party purity” is silliness in politics–and I’m not suggesting we become another Democratic party. But we can’t start by making people think we want to deport their grandmothers. There is a great argument (IMO) to be made that keeping Medicare and SS viable is only possible with reform. But nobody listens if it sounds like the basis for the reform is to “take back from the freeloaders.” > > I believe right now that the only candidate that can survive the primaries is someone who won’t win the general election. The demographics show it’s only getting tougher. The good news? That’s becoming blindingly obvious to all, and survival instincts will force us to change the formula. I gave you a note for post #37 (your first post in the thread). If you were not addressing **Stratocaster** I am not sure why you said “you” at all. The issue would be the same if you were taking a dig at **OMG A Black Conservative** (who you mentioned earlier by name). You went on to address **Stratocaster** as “you” in several subsequent posts: > [@Can a viable Republican candidate survive the primaries?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-viable-republican-candidate-survive-the-primaries/641724/41): > > You can’t afford to abandon a sizeable fraction of your base. These “far-right loonies” supported Perry, Bachmann, Cain, et al in your primaries, when given a choice. > > You should abandon them, of course, and you will, eventually, but it takes a lot of guts to stand up to ridicule by Rush Limbaugh and Donald Trump and Ann Coulter. You don’t have that kind of fortitude now. And for whatever it’s worth **Stratocaster** seemed to feel you were talking to him specifically: > [@Can a viable Republican candidate survive the primaries?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-viable-republican-candidate-survive-the-primaries/641724/42): > > It has nothing to do with fortitude. It’s a practical matter. They aren’t going to play to a sector that ensures their defeat in the general election. They are discovering that this kind of ridicule could perhaps be beneficial, in that it distances them from orthodoxies that the public at large finds distasteful. > > Look, we may stumble, perhaps through a few cycles, trying to find out what the New World Order is. But IMO that stumbling won’t be because we think we weren’t conservative enough, or need a “real conservative” candidate, or any of that stuff. The Senate races showed how well that worked. If none of that was intended, so be it. As you said, you didn’t get an official warning. Just be more careful. In your post you said outsmarting “you” Republicans was not too hard. Two posts earlier another poster had identified himself as a Republican. So I think my reading was very reasonable. > [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > I proofread for a living Which makes it kind of ironic that your defense of your comment is that you weren’t reading carefully. > [@](#): > > No, the worst I can see \*\*Marley \*\*reasonably doing would be asking me if I was perhaps targeting \*\*Stratocaster \*\*personally with that general “you.” I didn’t think I needed to ask. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-i-disagree-with-marleys-modding/641795)._