Reply #22: Frankly I think the WH and the current GOPcongress leadership [View All]

[salin]

is starting to do a great job of converting those folks. I can not tell you how often folks I know, who fit the group to which you refer, have started to express out loud a discomfort with the extremism that is running their party.

I don't think it will take much - beyond grass roots TALKING to people and letting them get to know and see how like minded we are on issues that matter - that will win folks over. But really it is more the extremism on the right - that is becoming more clear as they have become more emboldened on the one hand and more clumsy on the other - that will push them into "winnable over" territory.

Putting Cheney out there, for example, to spout now widely known lies, that the public knows are lies, and the public knows he knows are lies... and a few more folks start growing more uneasy about the whole party. Then put out that story that the global warming reports were doctored - by non scientists... while I daily see odd weather... and I begin to wonder about what else they are lying... Now I am ready to be responsive to some folks "in the other party."