[Texasforever]

You think insults will bring em back?

Look they are adults. They can either pout or vote, I DON"T CARE. What I will not do is beg them to do something they wouldn't do in the first place. Bush will win this thing by 51-55% popular vote and 320+ electoral vote and he will do it in spite of the unappeasables.

[sauropod]

There, there. You've got yourself all worked up.

[deport]

Speaking of 20%.... It was Rove that alluded to some 4 million of the Religious Right that didn't show in 2000. That's 4 million out of some 19 million he expected to vote... 4/19=21%.

The 20% or so on FR aren't all conservatives by any stretch and wouldn't vote for President Bush regardless. The same was showing in 2000 when Keyes, Buchanan, etc would win many polls of FR participants but didn't get a good sniff on election day... If I remember correctly according to exit polling President Bush only got some 81% of conservatives with most of the remainder voting for Gore...

[.30Carbine]

...in spite of the unappeasables.

This provides a good example. The poster you were speaking with is not, in his opinion, or mine, if that matters, "unappeasable." Because you addressed it to him it may appear as a personal attack. If you are attacking him, well, you got your point across in a roundabout way. If, however, you were not intending to accuse EV of unappeasability, perhaps you could be a bit more specific, pinging the posters who have actually demonstrated this to you? You might also quote a specific post where they expressed this unappeasability.

In this way you would not be offending someone you did not intend to offend, either the person you replied to with the comment or lurking FReepers, yet you would still be getting your point across.

[FairOpinion]

Just remember, in the FR vote:

If it's Kerry vs Bush how will you vote?

Kerry 28 votes - 1%