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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	How do you "disagree" with a fact?!?!?
	Date:	10/24/2010 11:40:23 AM

I understand your point about opinions masquerading as facts and agree. When I used the term fact I meant something that was objectively true and not an opinion. I use facts (the objectively true kind) to support my opinions. You often don't support your opinions with facts and ask us to accept them at face value based on your background and experience. When your opinions fly in the face of my opinions (based on facts and analysis) I am naturally, and think reasonably, going to ask you to support your opinion with facts. That you have "given up" doing that is meaningless to me and in my view a cop out.

When someone is acting as an expert witness (something I don't often do but have on several occasions) they don't have that luxury of just asking someone to accept what they say at face value, they have to support it with data (facts) and a reasonable analysis of the data. You also have to anticipate the legal theories of the other side and be prepared to refute it. The training I received to act in this capacity is what drives me to support my opinions and not just ask everyone to believe me because I said so. I wouldn't expect you to do that and I can't understand why you expect us to do so for you.

As for Scarborough, he WAS a GOP politician. If you look at his prescriptions for the GOP in his book, he is clearly a RINO and is offerering up Democrat-lite, an approach that has never worked for the GOP. And you did dismiss what he said by calling him Republican politician instead of responding with facts. If you don't believe me re-read your post.