Spoken as a true American. You laid out the key arguments quite nicely.
I took an on-the-fence voter to the Georgia rally yesterday and it was a challenging exercise to try and persuade him in our off-and-on conversations going to and from the event.
I came away with these thoughts:
- When you're pounded every day with propaganda from the MSM and NPR radio, it's hard to think straight.
- I asked questions such as: what accomplishments are you most proud of Hillary and her team? The inability to answer that question was instructive.
- Distilling the message down to simpler ideas (as you have done) is also key. I was asked: what's the value of an old Constitution in a modern world? The best I could come up with was to say that it's difference between "the rule of law" versus the "rule of men" such as a dictator or king.
- People who are undecided seem to want to "figure it out for themselves". And if so, then getting them to speak about their attitudes and the facts they know can probably move their decision along.
- You can take a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. Given that premise, we must stimulate a thirst in the horse's head. If you can do that, the horse will seek out water on his own.
- Humor is powerful: "One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent." H. L. Mencken
Your approach sounds sound to me. Getting a prospect to talk about his or her concerns is indeed a good place to start.
As for that old Constitution? You can point out that it reflects a keen understanding of human nature that is applicable to any age in the human experience. It is about political functions, not the tools of a particular time. It goes to what is proper for Government at the Federal level, and what is not. What is conducive to prosperity, what inhibits it, etc..