Response resorts to slimy tactics

To the editor:
You have to love liberals.
I recently wrote a letter debunking Pitts’ claim that most conservatives are racist and that we respond to secret “code words” that only Republicans and race baiters like Pitts are supposed to understand.
In response to my letter, Mr. Michael Kinser resorted to the slimiest trick in the Democrat playbook, calling someone a liar without specifying which statement was a lie.
He said, “‘Pitts is an embarrassment to all of the papers that print his nonsense.’ That paragraph, along with the rest of Mr. Erwin’s letter, suffers from a lack of demonstrable fact.”
Where Mr. Kinser made his first mistake was inferring that the entire letter was untrue.
He said that my letter “suffers from a lack of demonstrable fact.”In fact it was full of demonstrable facts.
Just to name two, I said that JFK and Clinton were “law and order” presidents. That is a demonstrable fact.
In addition, I said that “millions of Christian Americans actually do care about ‘family values.’” Few would say that statement is false.
Mr. Kinser also says that “If Mr. Erwin is embarrassed by Pitts’ writing, that is fine, but to seemingly conclude that everyone else should be also … Well, that is a stretch.” What is actually a stretch is Mr. Kinser’s conclusion that I said any of those things. As his quote from my letter proves, I never said that “I” was embarrassed by Pitts’ nonsense, nor did I say that “everyone else” should be embarrassed.
Mr. Kinser would be better served by writing about his own opinions rather than misrepresenting someone else’s letter to the editor.
Stephen Erwin
Portland