"calm" ?
"focused" ?
“Rationally” ? 

Like this ?  . . .

• Stephen Daugherty wrote: d.a.n , First, you don't respect people's right to have other opinions. . . .
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: d.a.n , You're wasting your time.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: d.a.n, . . . You had better be prepared . . .
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: I've tried to do you the respect of not merely flatly contradicting you
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: If you want to badmouth us . . .
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: You had better come at us with good evidence . . .
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: d.a.n, . . . we've told you no, we aren't satisfied with facts you've provided.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: For me, that means putting opinions like yours to the test . . .
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: you're trying to win in front of me and everybody else . . .
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: Stop flinging rhetoric at me and calling it facts.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: You can get all patronizing about that, . . . 
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: Facts, Dan. Facts. Not your opinions, not your conclusions, not your claims, facts. . . .
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: You're flinging an ad hominem argument at me . . .
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: You just want people to bow down to your case, as if they should be obligated to think in your terms.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: To be frank with you, you're no better than the people you criticize.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: Jeez man, if that's respect, I'd hate to get on your bad side!
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: Your attacks on the fact that I do have some party association, have done little to convince me that I should abandon them.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: d.a.n , Now you're trying my patience . . .
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: To be brutally honest, you're not telling me much about modern politicians I don't already know.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: I see it through the eyes of somebody who knows all about technology and the limitations of design.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: I consider everything I write carefully. My backspace and delete buttons get good workouts before you ever see my prose.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: I chose to be like this. However, I don't like doing things in a way that I know is arbitrary. It offends me. My comments about third parties are valid.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: I have a broader definition of what voter education means, I mean just straight forward learning and being told about what the people in congress are doing. . . . My bias is obvious.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: Again, I'm going to tell you, don't accuse people of being hypocrites without giving them the chance to demonstrate their behavior.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: Stop trying to play political tricks to force your politics down other people’s throats.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: It might help you if you considered that people’s dislike of your prose might be your fault rather than theirs.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: Why do you persist in trash talking me?
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: I would advise you to be one of those people mature enough to realize that they are not the only whose voice and opinion matters, and that other’s votes and other’s views must be considered as well.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: . . . so I’m telling you, leave him out of our discussion. Don’t throw a whole of silly denials my way, just let him be, or I will take this up with the adminstrators.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: So, I’m not all that impressed by somebody simply posting the opinions of their friends and fellow travellers trying to prove me wrong by the fact of their expression of their negative opinions. I’ve been tagged team before.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: It amuses me somewhat to see the lengths you go to avoid the admission of what must clear to most other people reading our exchange: your contempt for me, for my disagreement with you . . .
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: I’ve outlasted many people who thought they could beat me down with personal potshots. I take pride in it, that I stay calm, focused, and able to argue rationally.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: I challenge you to show me the respect of arguing point to point, rather than just declaring every argument I make unworthy in pre-emption of ever having a serious discussion about those points.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: I have been trying my best not to let my end degenerate as far as yours has.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: You seem more concerned about quoting soundbites than presenting evidence to be subject to examination by others.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: . . . you claim to know how I feel, and keep on trying to build a case that I simply hate non-Democrats. Give it a rest.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: But if you look at what I’m arguing, I’m giving free strategical advice.
• Stephen Daugherty wrote: Quit with the numbers, while you’re at it. They’re just browbeating, . . .

"browbeating" ?

Funny how some people do the very thing they accuse others of ?
Funny how some people can dish it out, but can't take it ?