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I stopped “backing-off to be polite and avoid confrontation” about 2 years ago. I don’t let any liberal statement made in my presence go without my comment. I’ve found that if you speak up with some conviction and force in your voice, the other side will back-off.

In addition to not having to say to yourself later that you wished you would have spoken up, there’s a self-satisifying smugness that comes over you when the other side shuts up.

I support the Constitution, as written. Therefore, I support the First Amendment guarantee of Free Speech. BUT there is no guarantee to a Free Audience.
(I strongly disagree that Flag burning is an expression of Free Speech.)

I usually warn people not to bring up the subject of politics, as I am %^%*^*&&^ mad with both the democrats and republican parties.

I stopped “backing-off to be polite and avoid confrontation” about 2 years ago. I don’t let any liberal statement made in my presence go without my comment. I’ve found that if you speak up with some conviction and force in your voice, the other side will back-off. In addition to not having to say to yourself later that you wished you would have spoken up, there’s a self-satisifying smugness that comes over you when the other side shuts up.

I am with you. I take it even further -- I think we have a duty to speak out. Loudly. So that others gain courage to speak out themselves -- so many have been duped by the media illusion that Obama supporters aren't the minority, when they are: Democrats have to cheat to win (multiple voting, registering mentally ill, elderly, and felons and "helping" them vote for the Democrat, manipulative redistricting to ensure Democrat representation that would probably not occur otherwise, for example) because they wouldn't get enough votes otherwise.

Mainstream culture and media have the right so convinced that they're not the majority that they meekly submit and grumble, "Well, I guess enough stupid people voted for Obama ...." when NO, enough failed to materialize -- it's why the Dems had to and have to cheat. Al Franken, anyone?

THEREFORE, it is our patriotic duty as Americans to speak up loudly in, say, the grocery store or a coffee shop, when someone makes a liberal statement. We must reveal the real dynamics as opposed to the false image presented by the media. We are the majority. Today, silence may very well be more cowardice than prudence; we remain politely silent at our peril. People gain courage and strength in numbers.

I'm with you. It's time to SPEAK OUT when the challenge presents itself.

I’ve found that if you speak up with some conviction and force in your voice, the other side will back-off.

Yeah, that's something I've noticed also - they fold like a tent when confronted. I think they've gotten used to conservatives being so browbeaten that they are shocked into silence when somebody mentions the emperor has no clothes.