You might be right if you said that my argument was too simplistic... but I think there is plenty of "cheap rhetoric" on your side as well, and the ad hominem a

You might be right if you said that my argument was too simplistic... but I think there is plenty of "cheap rhetoric" on your side as well, and the ad hominem attack ("too much education by way of reading opinion articles" is pretty slimy, if you ask me. I could easily have said "too much watching of Fox News"....