2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Your sanctimonious bullshit is wearing a little thin [View all]justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)but I've lived in red states too and when I lived in VA (during the Kerry campaign), even though I knew my vote wouldn't turn the tide, I knew it helped. It's people like fleur-de-lisa who helped turn VA and NC blue in 2008.
I've always maintained that there are sane and rational Republics out there, it's just a matter of engaging them. I'd much rather see moderate, sane GOPer's back in DC than this whacked out bunch of Teabaggers. If talking to folks in red states, and making them see that the extremism in their party is the problem, I'd say that's better for America in the long run. People like Norquist and his "drown the gov't in the bathtub" BS need to go. It's not the Charlie Crist's of the world that are ruining our discourse, it's the Paul Ryan's.