re: ESPN Story on the Teabagger!

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Funny how he and his wife present it as so out of character, and yet he doesn't have that decency to apologize or seem apologetic. If you aren't truly sorry for doing something twisted like that, you are fully capable of something like that. You can't blame the alcohol. I do feel sorry for the wife on some level, but if he is truly a good guy, as his wife says, it should be easy for her to convince him to think about it and to be sorry for doing it.

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Where do you get that he isn't sorry for doing it? It may sound cynical but he probably couldn't apologize to Stamp even if he wanted to given there was a criminal trial and even a pending civil suit. An apology doesn't do him any good given that people are out for blood and revenge wanting to make an example out of him. It would also probably be used against him in a civil suit. For every inch you give to the other side, the other side and their lawyer wants a mile. It's cynical, but that a negotiating technique and negotiating ground that Downing can't afford to give up.