Two examples of people being human, and not being immune to believing the bullcrap put out by the enemedia:
Example #1:
9-9-9: The enemy argued that it was bad because there was nothing to stop it from becoming 10-10-10 or even 30-30-30. Well 9-9-9 may have been bad, but not for that reason. Tax structures don't raise taxes, politicians (and/or voters) do. By their reasoning, there is nothing to stop our current tax structure from becoming a 75% tax. Additionally, they argued that “the voters” will never approve a National Sales Tax. Yet those same “voters” somehow managed to approve STATE Sales Taxes in all but FIVE states. So apparently a good many voters didn't have a problem approving a Sales Tax. Many Conservatives believed both of these falsehoods.
Example #2:
In Mike Huckabee’s Presidential Forum the other night, the female attorney challenged Gingrich on his idea that illegal immigration cases might be decided by jury trial. She said she was uncomfortable with that idea, “as a 20 year prosecutor, because that puts friends and neighbors in a position of deciding the fate of these people.” Gingrich rightly responded, “That is what we do now with our jury system,” - we have juries of our peers, and it was designed that way. Yet the woman, the Attorney General for the State of Florida, whom we would expect to be Conservative, was more than willing to believe the enemy spin of being against jury trials for illegals because “friends and neighbors” would be on the jury.
People are people. Conservatives are people. Collectively, the masses are ignorant, and remain so intentionally, by being too lazy to even click on links in FR threads.
Sorry for the late response, but I just got back to this thread and find myself in violent agreement ;-) In fact, that question from the Florida AG was the first one to Newt on the replay of Huckabee I just watched, so it’s fresh in my mind.
First, I was impressed then and again now with Newt’s response to the immigration question. I’ll admit to being one who took a few swipes at him over his previous debate position, but his solution makes good sense and is practical. I don’t know to what extent the AG was actually asking her own question vs. reading what was prepared for her, but I do grant your point - which was my own point, also. That is, we are all human, warts and all, and we certainly are subject to the same psychology that everyone else is. However, knowing that, we might be able to hold ourselve to a higher standard, actively challenging and really thinking about what we are being told vs. what the truth might be.
Even though I was and am a Cain supporter, I too felt that sinking feeling when the allegations came out. But then I did my own research to find the facts, and found very few, other than the - as you put it - lies repeated over and over. The message I gave myself was “Wake up! Don’t buy this crap or you’re giving up your power to someone you never would trust otherwise”.
Maybe if it rises to the “Dan Rather level” most of us would detect it, but we owe it to ourselves to really exercise critical thinking habits, and make sure we separate what we are told from what we truly “know”.