We’re painted as whack-jobs no matter what we do. Your strategy of trying to get in the good graces of Jon Stewart so he doesn’t call us mean names is a prescription for getting steamrolled.
My strategy of getting in the good graces of Jon Stewart? What the F are you talking about?
Conservatives are 30% of the US population. So long as we are successfully painted as the lunatic fringe, we'll never have a majority again.
Talking about things like SECESSION is absolutely NUTS and alienates the middle third of America that's not so politically active, aware or engaged. Of course, it's the same middle third of America that the left and the right needs to WIN ELECTIONS - You know, the important part of running a country from your ideological perspective.