And that's why the Young Republicans are the least effective collegiate organization known to man. In my experience, the Campus Republicans/Young Republicans are always apologizing for this and embarrassed by that - always playing Stepin' Fetchit to the campus left.
I haven’t been brainwashed, just taught good manners.
And your "manners" will be the death of the conservative movement. Look what President Bush's "manners" did for him. Look where John McCain's "manners" have put him. Understand that the militant left is using your virtues against you because they know that they can. They know that you'll play by the Marquis of Queensbury rules while they use the no-holds barred cage fighting rules. They know that symbols matter and that if they can restrain you while they can do what they want they will eventually win the ideological battle. They know that if they can make Obama a sacrosanct figure while Bush and McCain become targets of mockery that over the long term they can delegitimize them more effectively than your unread anti-Obama pamphlets can delegitimize Obama.
“And your “manners” will be the death of the conservative movement.”
I disagree strongly. “Manners” will be the saving of the movement, not its death. The good book says “be as wise as serpents”, not actually BE a serpent. If the conservative movement stoops to the level of the opposition, if it uses the same tactics, the same levels of ridicule, manipulation and spite, then ultimately it will become the opposition. What is the point of saving us from these people, if we have to become like them to do it?
I understand that the militant left uses our own virtues against us, but that is the reason (and actually the main reason) why I am against them. It’s also the reason that most “moderates” and “undecideds” will be against them too. The pollsters ask the wrong questons, and the mass media treat the masses with utter comtempt, but people are more astute than they think. They take note not only of the message but the way the message is delivered.
Militant left people are really repulsive. I don’t mean their policies, I mean them personally. And people (voters) register that. Do not be fooled. How we think and the way we transpose that into action matters more even than winning or losing an election. Those who use lies and hate and subterfuge will eventually become sneaky, hate-filled liars.