Nope. Not buyin' it. You don't negotiate with liars, you don't accept the word of those that lack one. Chaffetz is motivated by fear and greed and you do not use gentle rhetoric where a cattleprod is called for. Fuck this guy. Seriously. You forget - he's not representing Berkeley. Those are red-blooded Capital R Republicans from Salt Lake City shouting him down. Same fuckers that spent $5m banning gay marriage in Cali-fucking-fornia. He doesn't go home the winner, he goes home learning that his balls-deep knob-gobbling support of Donald "I'm out" Trump is infuriating his god-hates-fags constituency. I have no power over Jason Chaffetz other than paying whatever PAC wants to take him down in two years. Neither do you. And it warms the cockles of my heart to see a bunch of negro-hatin', whiskey-fearin', gay-bashin' Mormons tear him limb from limb and this high tea of intellectual convergence you picture? Naaah. Watching Republicans tear Republicans limb from limb is the kind of joy I haven't experienced since John Boehner ran screaming.Chaffetz’s Twitter feed doesn’t feature any curiosity about Trump’s numerous potential conflicts of interest. But the Utah congressman has been tweeting incessantly about how he is “outraged” by “arrogant” Obama using the national monument designation powers presidents have had since 1906.
Why is this so hard to understand? Yelling at the guy accomplishes nothing, and actually hurts your cause, because he gets to walk away the "winner", for keeping his cool in the face of what was basically a riot. The guy completely leveled the playing field. He asked questions from random people in the crowd, not a select few plants. He gave them the opportunity to ask followup questions if they were not satisfied with his response. He showed up, in person, and answered questions live for an hour and a half. There were multiple media outlets there videoing the entire event. You couldn't have asked for a better set up to take down one of the leading moron Republicans in the party. Any minimally-informed voter could have absolutely shredded Chaffetz on basically ANYTHING. The guy is a mental midget. All they needed to do, for example, is let the "woman in red" speak (who asked the pointed questions about Trump's tax returns), and Chaffetz would have had to defend his indefensible position. There would be video of him either incriminating himself, outright lying, or calling out Trump. On video. To be shared globally. Instead, the crowd starts shouting again, drowning out the followup question, and his answer, so he gets off scot-free with a mealymouthed bit of wishy-washyness. Again. Yelling at these shitwits is not the winning strategy, and will always lead to the Republicans looking composed and professional, and their detractors looking like frothing loons.
Because your definition of "win" is irrelevant. to whit: Chaffetz has calmly and professionally investigated Clinton's email server 33 times. He has sworn to continue to do so even past inauguration. Meanwhile he's sucking the cock of a president who goes on capslock twitter rants in the middle of the night and treats federal appellate judges as if they were Rosie O'Donnell. You keep asserting that calmness and poise win debates as if it were true and you have never once offered a single reason or example as to why it would possibly be. Somehow you got the idea that the purpose of this meeting was to get answers from Jason Chaffetz. It wasn't. The purpose of this meeting, to those who attended it, was to express vituperative hatred and displeasure at the previous actions of Jason Chaffetz. You think the walking sphincter is going to moderate his behavior as the result of a 90 minute Q&A? 'cuz you have no reason to think that. On the other hand, attempting to moderate his behavior through convincing him he might just get run over on the way home hasn't been tried yet. Thus, a surly crew of mormons. Nothing wrong with frothing loons... particularly when several hundred of them show up to demonstrate the likelihood of Chaffetz' re-election. Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. -unknownWhy is this so hard to understand?
will always lead to the Republicans looking composed and professional, and their detractors looking like frothing loons.
He asked questions from random people in the crowd, not a select few plants. He gave them the opportunity to ask followup questions if they were not satisfied with his response. He showed up, in person, and answered questions live for an hour and a half.