The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #104322   Message #2142824
Posted By: Bill D
06-Sep-07 - 06:49 PM
Thread Name: BS: Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho)- lewd conduct
Subject: RE: BS: Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho)- lewd conduct
You are changing the rules and stacking the deck, John....

the original point was about whether it was or was not 'vile' and whether agreeing or disagreeing was 'approval' or not...now you want to base the whole thing on whether you get your opponents to say "he was 'wrong'" with no qualifications.

Durn, John...you could be designing polls for CNN! They put up those kind of loaded questions every day! "Do you think illegal immigrants should be dipped in taco sauce and shipped back to Mexico in bean-dip containers...yes or no?"

The whole point of some polls is to phrase the question so that you can't answer it without sounding like you agree. That's how the "Have you stopped beating your wife?" joke got started!