Civility occurs.
It's surely the must-read post of the day:
A few good Democrats still exist and they are at Drake University. Around 4:00 today I stopped at RPI to find a gaggle of young lefties, bright eyed and bushy tailed, actually protesting, well, me. Seriously, signs that read things like “Sporer = Hate”, “Sporer = Fake Morals”, and some other equally loving statements were splattered on homemade posters all over East 9th Street by about 15 Drake Democrats.
I suppose some other, more cautious, personality would have hidden or snuck out the back. Actually, when the kids heard that I had “arrived” about half the worker’s brigade moved to the back door, so that option would have been foreclosed anyway. Since we all know how Kurt Russell handled Ike Clanton when Curly Bill shot old Fred White, I decided to cry havoc, and wade into the crew just to see what would happen.
Well, not surprisingly, the kids didn’t fair very well in the clash of wits, which isn’t really saying a whole lot for me. After all, if a 47 year old trial lawyer, who coached debate for a hobby, and majored in philosophy before serving as three term county chairman in Iowa’s most contentious political environment can’t outwit adolescents, then he’d better find a whole new life, eh? So it wasn’t just my love of argument that made the discourse so much fun.
What was a pleasant surprise was how both polite and sincere and, what’s more, reasonably well dressed were the young Donkeys. This was such a difference from the dirty, hysterical, rude leftists of my college days. There was little interruption and no attempt to shout me down or make a childish drama in evidence today.
Read the whole thing.
Back story here and the post that started it all.
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