What is a good quick statement to win over undecideds?

[eriffle]

We all know people who are either soft Bush voters or who are undecided. What is the best quick easily understood statement to win them over. What I've been using, this is half-time in a football game, Bush is down by a couple touchdowns. We've lost jobs, we're in a quagmire in Iraq, and the economy isn't working the way he wants it. How is he adjusting his game plan? He's not, he's just offering more of the same.

[wtmusic]

1. A picture is worth a thousand words

[Jack from Charlotte]

8. Here's what I say........

We were on the verge of paying off the national debt. We had huge surpluses and now we have huged budget deficits.

I want the son of a bitch that killed our people on 9/11 DEAD. Bush took assests away from Afganastan where Bin Laden is to fight this war in Iraq. Iraq has no more to do with 9/11 or terrorism than Iceland does.

I want our allies to like us again. For every additional allied troop helping out, that's one fewer american soldier needed. You don't get help by calling people names......

[Fridays Child]

2. Hillary observed that Kerry might change his position...

...to fit the facts but Bush changes the facts to fit his position.

That resonated, as they say, with me.

[speedoo]

3. Yes. I think the bottom line is:

Do you really want four more years of this?

Incompetence in conducting an unnecessary war?

Not doing enough to protect us at home?

Running up deficits that our kids will have to pay off?

Tax policies that reward the rich and big corporations without generating real job growth and helping the middle class?

etc. etc.

[noahmijo]

4. "I want to fight Saddam an infidel I want to wage guerilla war in Iraq"

-Bin laden 1990

Then of course follow up as to how Bush is Bin laden's choice given that Saddam is gone, Iraq is on its way to becoming an Islamic Republic, and that Americans are dying daily.

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. George and John the Mechanics

My car breaks down. I take it to George the Mechanic not so much because I know he's good, just because I know him better. I think somethings wrong with the gizmo, but he tells me "nope, it's the widget". I trust him to fix the widget, since that's what he says is wrong.

I go back in a few days, his shop looks like hell, parts of my car are everywhere and it doesn't look like he has a clue what he's doing, although he does have a bunch of grease monkeys working for him nodding in agreement, "Yup, it's the widget. They're hard to fix."

Do I leave my car with George to work on it more? Hell no! I pick up all my car parts, call the tow truck and take my car to John. I tell John, "I thought it was the gizmo, but George thought it was the widget. All I know is that my car still isn't fixed." John says, "No problem. We'll get to the bottom of it and fix it, whether it's the widget, the gizmo or something else, and we'll get it done as quickly as possible and still do a good job."

[kentuck]

6. Are you really planning on voting for "that" guy ??

Don't even mention a name. Leave it ambiguous.

[Technowitch]

7. Are you better off now than you were four years ago?

Follow that with: And do you really want a repeat of these last four years?

[eriffle]

9. I used to use that...

but people came back with "It's not Bush's fault for 9/11" I try to respond with Presidents have had natural distasters, wars, and recessions to deal with and none have lost one more job than they gained since Hoover. I've found that you want to try to keep 9/11 out of it, and when you make people think of the last four years, 9/11 is bound to pop into their head. I agree with you that thinking people try to look past 9/11 and into what the President has done , but being in West Virginia I'm mainly dealing with people who are anti-arab/terrorist/anyone who is not white or closed minded people and they try to blame anyone else than Bush first.

[DemDogs]

10. Deficit argument

(From a town hall)
Went from a $5T surplus to $3T deficit, and what did you get? A good secure job? Health care? How 'bout your schools?

[Zorbet55]

11. Have they observed his temperament....do they know he has

the power to end all life on earth?

[Bongo Prophet]

12. Yep, The first debate showed him as imcompetent.

The second showed his cockiness and hair-trigger temper.
Especially if someone disagrees or has a different opinion.
No way to run the most powerful country in the world.

Simple minded bully.


I was trying to persuade a confused non-political friend recently.
All the policy and history I had spouted just wore him down.
I used my tired old James bond vs Yosemite Sam analogy on him.
He laughed and said "Yeah!" --I saw the light go on in his head.
Sometimes it is a picture worth 10,000 words.

[eriffle]

16. I like that

If saving the world came down to two people, would you rather have Yosmite Sam or James Bond.....great

[undercover_brother]

13. 4 more years of Ashcroft

[despairing optimist]

14. Chief Justice Clarence Thomas, or

Antonin Scalia.

Private unemployment insurance accounts. Erosion and elimination of social safety net.

More outsourcing of jobs, more offshore tax havens.

Drilling in wildlife refuges, dirtier air and water.

The choice depends on the undecided voter's own issues.

[realcountrymusic]

15. Just say

If you vote for him, someday you will have to explain to your children and grandchildren why you supported a man who fucked up the world so bad.

OR

"Are you outta your fucking mind or do you really think it's okay to have a moron leading the free world with his finger on the button?" (for those unlikely to vote Kerry)

Sorry about the language

RCM