To call Ragsdale an incompetent boob is a tell. What do you call someone who covers for a criminal?

A defense lawyer?

Sorry to all defense lawyers out there...it was too big an opening to not drive the Mack Truck through...
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"You can't fix stupid..." ~ Ron White"
"I never said I wasn't a brat..." ~ Talidapali

Even though I've never said a single solitary pro-Ragsdale thing in my life? Can't you see how silly you're acting? Really? You know, you once called the Lump the best friend the Ragsdale faction ever had because of all his stupid moves on commission and in front of the cameras. By that same logic, you're the best friend Mike Ragsdale has on the internet.

You hijack nearly every thread about county govenrment on KnoxNews and KnoxViews in order to post something about your latest Ragsdale fixation.

You call everyone who challenges you a "Ragsdale Booster" or "Ragsdale Apologist" or similar. And I don't mean people who say good things or stick up for Ragsdale. I mean these are the terms you use for people who just aren't sufficiently anti-Ragsdale for your liking.

You post every rumor, ever allegation, every bit of innuendo that comes to mind about Ragsdale without regard for either accuracy or relevance to the thread.

From what I can gather from your many, many posts on these forums, nearly everything that happens in Knox County happens because of Mike Ragsdale. If it's good or something against one of his more vocal critics, it's all about "changing the subject." If it's something bad, "Team Ragsdale" is behind it all.

I believe the appropriate term is "thread killer." By always going so completley, belligerently, irrationally over the top on every thread connected to Knox County government, you accomplish exactly three things, none of which I believe to be your goal.

1. You shut down discourse and alienate a lot of people who might otherwise broadly agree with your opinion of the mayor.
2. You drum up sympathy for the County Mayor by going so completely around the bend with your criticisms. For reference, see the sympathy drummed up for Clinton by the GOP going over the top on Lewinski or the backlash in 2004 against those on the left who went so belligerently over the top on Bush.
3. You harm your own credibility, or what there could be of it, by coming across as, frankly, obsessed - in the clinical sense - with the mayor. At this point, you've just become that kook who hates Mike Ragsdale.

I'm not sure why I'm bothering to post this. Maybe it's the optimist in me beieving against all evidence to the contrary you might still be capable of rationally processing information.