I made this point to a committed Dem on the golf course the other day as he was ranting that he has never seen things as miserably bad as they are now (uh, remember Carter?).
I realized I wasn't going to make any headway talking tax cuts, sustained economic growth and other minutiae in the face of the fuel prices (his entire sky-is-falling argument), so I focused in on the point you just made, asking him if he really thought on 9/12/01 that we would go seven more years without a terrorist hit.
I could see the wheels were turning, and he had to concede that he was surprised.
We both agreed at the end that Dubya must be doing something right in the WOT.
Moral of the story: pick you battles wisely, and zero in on an unarguable fact, thereby chipping away at the liberal mindset.
LOL. On the golf course and complaining about how bad he has it?