Any day I can feed a liberals delusion is indeed a fine day.
The best thing about these tender moments is the lurkers can read the cheshires’ empty arguments for more lib GOP types and think for themselves. And as all the converts on FR alone prove, Your positions are not winning the debate.
Mine, and those us evil purists share, are.
I don’t think you’re evil. I just think you’re a fool.
Mine, and those us evil purists share, are. --
I'm not sure either side is "winning," at least not in a short or medium term. The party faithful are trotting out the old "voter's fault" justification for losing the popularity contest (invoked prosectively as "vote for us, we're not overtly socialist like the other guy"), and predictably, people who yearn for elected representatives that will try to roll back the government, aren't buying in.
That's a broad brush, and of course there are exceptions (Cruz, Sessions, LePage). It's up to each candidate, and to some extent, the party itself, to come up with a message that gets it into power.
I wonder about the political debates in countries like Venezuela, Russia, Iraq, etc. that had free and open elections. I bet the same sort of empassioned arguments occurred there, too. Fat lot of difference it made.