Yes, it "might have sufficed," or it might have become a lightning rod of who-agrees-with-whom pyrotechnics. Now we'll never know!
Anyway, I'm not really sure the nature of your complaint, or if there is a complaint, but here's the source of my last intervention in that thread:
Remember that those who post here are not representative of most Liberal-NDP-Green voters....I realize many of the folks here are hard-core activists who have worked in the trenches for many years and who don't want to ever work with anyone other than a pure, left-wing socialist party, but that is not realistic and is not representative of where most Canadians are.
The "Remember" struck me as classic concern trolling and the post-ellipsis bit struck me as a harmful (and untrue) caricature of leftist politics. Exactly the kind that's unwelcome here and exactly the kind I've called out before, from Liberals and Dippers alike.
By the way, this is the only time I can recall censuring Debater for his posts here. There may well be others like this one, but the vast majority of my posts in response to an interaction which include Debater resemble this one.
I also don't think there's much equivalency between a "lover" and a "harpy" as terms of endearment.