One of the consistent arguments that conservative Republicans are hurling against President Obama and the Democrats this election season is that President Obama's support for federal intervention in the economy, through such programs as his ill-fated jobs bill or the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, represents an attack on individual liberty.
As a writer, you need to do more than make well-supported, and consistent arguments.
"The president has been making a clear and consistent argument throughout this campaign season," said Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director.
It's not an intellectually consistent argument – he has a pick'n'mix attitude bordering on the contradictory towards traditional belief systems.
The only things missing from this clean, airtight, entirely consistent argument are, well, all the dead babies in the Gosnell clinic — or the dead "precipitated fetuses," to employ the language Gosnell and his associates used to euphemize their practice of delivering and then "snipping" rather than aborting in utero.
The most sophisticated communicators of the modern era hammer at a consistent argument about their moment and the response it demands, and they choose carefully constructed metaphors to make the choices ahead seem obvious — think of Ronald Reagan's morning in America, or Bill Clinton's bridge to the 21st century.
Powerful Enough: A consistent argument that hardcore games fans level against phones, tablets and microconsoles is the perception that they're graphically weak.
This is not just a logically consistent argument.
However, I also think that the evidence in support of 2R is rather diverse and rather substantial, so it needs to be addressed seriously rather than summarily dismissed, primarily, on the basis of the high complexity of primitive metazoan genomes which is not a logically consistent argument against 2R.
This sometimes inchoate stagger toward a broader, more self-consistent argument is all that can be expected, even of an ultimately successful idea.
Two incorrect but nevertheless consistent denial arguments are that the Earth isn't warming and that climate models are inaccurate.
