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Yep, it's all true. Todd even understates the nastiness of the nastiest of the nasties. Still, like him, I met several sincere and respectful liberals who were genuinely interested in discussing the issues with a conservative. One young man in particular who was an undergrad at Cal seemed to have simply never heard our President defended in person. I spoke with him for 15 minutes or so and am sure that it was a worthwhile effort. I too was once a young campus leftie who had never heard conservatism explained. At any event like this it is the "black bloc" type crazies who get all of the attention (and you do have to watch those types because they ARE dangerous). But mixed in with these leftie crowds is a significant minority of intelligent, decent, well-intended folks who for one reason or another have not yet been exposed to our conservative philosophies. I think it is a very useful public service to attempt to gradually peel off these decent folks from the hard-core totalitarian socialist maniacs. Plus it's fun to gloat and yesterday San Francisco was schaudenfreud city, baby!!!!