[Miss Marple]

I will take your comments seriously if you can point me to the post you made cautioning the borders contingent that calling Bush supporters "open borders, globalist, traitors" was putting people off and not persuading them.

[APFel]

I made no such post. However, dyed in the wool Republicans have the burden of persuasion, not the other way around.

The party supporters need the "dissenters" to get out and vote Republican in November, correct? Therefore, they have something to lose should the conservatives stay home or vote third party. (I know that someone will say "but if the Demoncrats get in office, we ALL lose" or somesuch, but let's ignore that. That's not the point I am trying to make, therefore it is irrelevant to this argument).

Folks not currently supporting the party have nothing to lose if they fail to convince the party supporters; indeed, they are not trying to be persuasive at all. They are merely stating their dissatisfaction with the current administration, NOT trying to get people to not vote Republican (for the most part, and ESPECIALLY in this thread).

And whether you take my comments seriously is of no consequence to me. You and I have already danced here on FR and I don't believe we have anything to learn from one another.

Sorry.

APf

[Gondring]

What I find particularly telling about the Bushbot contingent is that if a dissenter posts publicly, he's called a backstabber...but if he tries to engage in FReepmail discussion, he's told to take it public.