RIP Thread

On TOB, Wabash offered a "good riddance" on the death of Linda Tripp. What kind of a piece of shit human being is happy at the death of another person just because they disagreed politically.

I can understand a staunch liberal offering "good riddance" when Reagan died, for Reagan did alot of things while in office that showed how conservative ideology was superior to liberal ideology.  In that case, the staunch liberal would indeed hate Reagan because he was a threat to all things the staunch liberal believes in.

But Linda Tripp?  You have to be a real scumbag to hate Linda Tripp to that degree.  She got caught up knowing the things that Bill Clinton did, concerned about retaliation from the Clinton's and about being prosecuted for lying under oath when telling the truth.  The tapes she made and her push to have Lewinsky tell the truth were nothing more than self preservation, an insurance policy to make sure she didn't get indicted for doing the right thing and that the Clinton's didn't add her to that ever growing list.

Hating Linda Tripp would be like a conservative hating someone who testified about the Watergate break-in.

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I think most of us know what a pathetic cretin Wabash is already. Short, fat, loud, opinionated without insight, an ideologue without ideas. The intellectual equivalent of a vacuum. And as a result often entertaining to read. ..............Luca

I think you are selling yourself short, I believe you can comprehend such a thing, even though you find it disgusting. Remember the leftist point of view, what they believe in and how they see the world. Now someone like Reagan comes along and blows those ideas away, shaking these people to the core. They have two choice - to either rationally & logically look at how they have been wrong or choose to hate the person who destroyed their world view. If they are immature and ignorant, they choose the latter.

I understand what you're saying, but Linda Tripp didn't blow anyone's ideas away, nor did she shake them to the core or destroy their world view.  Celebrating her death is the ultimate in petty political shittiness.

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