"Funny how Verm declares that Danforth has conceded something that he never addressed." - Deth
By social convention, and even in debate scoring, Danforth did concede that portion of the post. Danforth's post is typical "contextomy" here on the DR. In social settings silence about one topic in the conversation, while pointing out another is a form of consent, or agreement of the latter point. By convention if Danforth had a problem with it, or disagreed with Vern, he would have posted as such. Silence implies consent.
Have you ever dated? When going for the bra, the girl can possibly say "NO", but never says "YES". What do you do in these situations? Stop? Wait for verbal consent? If so, then I bet you are pretty bad in the sack. But I bet the Spud has had his fair share of the ladies, and used the silence as consent for permission to continue.
"Why do rtards lie so obviously and unneccessarily all the time?" - Deth
I see this sort of quote mining more often than not here on the DR, it is almost unavoidable. It seems to me, but I could be wrong, but people here like to retort clever replies, not really saying much of value, but there are the gold nuggets, that keep me coming back. To say only one group is guilty of this behavior is a lie of biblical proportions, perhaps you are suffering from confirmational bias syndrome.
For instance, you can imply that I agree with the Palin part of your post, you would be correct that I do .... It is funny, I don't like Palin.