"Didn't Reagan win Rhode Island? He won 49 of the 50 states running as a conservative. Doesn't that tell you anything? "
Ah President Reagan was awesome! ok now that i got that out of my system - unfortunately the nation has changed since then. How else could Kerry have gotten 48% of the vote. Dont get me wrong i would take Laffey over Chafee any day (i would take a rock over Chafee anyday) i was just attempting to explain the rational as to why the GOP is rallying around Chafee. I in no way meant that there should not be a primary or that everyone should back Chafee. And yes Chafee said he voted for Bush's father - what a putz.
Thanks for explaining.
I think that the biggest change is in some voters are stuck on stupid. They don't listen to the information that would allow them to make a different decision. They listen only to the MSM and their unions.
I will bet that is questioned separately on key issues they would agree with us more often than not, but they hear that conservatives are mean, nasty, hateful people without actually knowing any of us. They hate Rush, but they have never listened to him.
It is incumbent upon us to reach them one on one. Short of another 9/11 (which itself woke up some of them) we really have our work cut out for us, but it has to be done. Despite my harsh attitude here -- amongst people who should know better -- my approach with libs starts out quite different. I ask questions and let them come to their own conclusions. You can tell them until they are blue in the face and it won't do any good.
I'm not a huge fan of Sean Hannity, but he did a great job yesterday with Flipper. He didn't tell her about guns as much as he kept asking her questions. She won't admit it anytime soon, but she did realize that her attitude on guns was just plain wrong and based on misinformation and ignorance.
The toughest part of the job of converting them is being able to be around them long enough to do any good. They can be very nasty when asked to think instead of emote.
My apologies if I jumped to quickly and landed too hard.