[quote=chiefburg]Fellas - did you all not read the article?????? Here, let me quote it for you:
"What are you hiding? You're looking like Arnold [Schwarzenegger] in a dress," heckler Ed Buck shouted at Whitman.
While you didn't like the way he asked the question, he did ask "what are you hiding?"
I supposed the key to this is the word "heckler", which usually describes someone who is there to throw word bombs, disrupt a meeting, knock the candidate off his/her game, and get media attention. They're not there to truly debate facts. And how in the hell was she supposed to answer such as stupid, open-ended question that was framed with an insult? Why would she answer it?
I suppose she could have said "nothing". But I would imagine the idiot would have just come at her with more disruptive crap.
This has not a thing to do with party lines. it has everything to do wtih intelliegent discourse, whether it's the Dems or the Repubs. Ask good questions. Ask hard questions. Follow up and demand answers that can be given with solid facts. That makes your cause to get her to speak noble.
Don't ask stupid, open-ended questionst that truly have no answer like "What are you hiding?", and frame it up with an insult to boot. No one (well, almost no one) at that point thinks you are smart. You're dismissed as a bomb-throwing social donkey and everyone moves on.