do you disagree with 17,824? do you think we are going to bludgeon voters into agreeing with our conservative principles? how do you propose to start the discussion with the moderate voters?
“I’m completely right, you’re an idiot, sit down and shut up while I tell you what to think...”
Good luck with that approach.
discussion as the free debate of ideas is one thing. Discussion by the left usually means what my teenagers think it means - lets talk about it until you give in and see things my way
There are some areas that are open for discussion, and some that are not if you are truly a conservative. Otherwise, the term conservative looses any meaning.
As usual, you set up a straw man and then seek to knock it down.
We're in the primary phase. So, you're not even asking the right questions, much less providing any answers here.
That's pretty much a good summation of your attitude here this morning, Rob.
Good luck with that.
Of course it takes a lot of patience (though I don't always have it but admire those who do), knowledge and persistence to win over such voters. Nastiness is not a winning strategy. That is a no brainer.
There are times however, when firmness, strength and the passion of one convictions, however, do work. Such tactics, appropriately used, yield clarity and a sense of purpose.
I have to laugh though, when people, particularly in debates opposing conservatives (and I do not mean you), get all self righteous and make the point you made and yet are as nasty as they accuse conservatives of being. At least the conservatives are honest in admitting their meanspiritedness is a tactic they use strategically.
Some of the meanest posters on this and other boards hate Ann Coulter because they believe she is mean, and gives conservatives a bad name, when daily, month after month, year after year, they post comments which are far nastier than anything Ann has ever said or done.