The Republicans know that the hot button issues are Race and Sex.

[Jade Fox]

The GOP has learned to find an issue that makes people go stupid and
unable to focus on issues like health care and the economy. The things
that do that most reliably have to do with either race or sex. (Don't
think for a minute that sex is not what's behind gay marriage and
abortion for Fundies and other conservatives). And once they have
rendered people all squirmy and unable to think, they offer themselves as
the saviors who will protect them from these issues that make them so
uncomfortable.

A man from Alabama that I met at my Democratic caucus warned that the
Republicans knew exactly what they were doing with the gay marriage
thing--winning the South. This man guarenteed that conservative
Southerners would vote for Bush for that reason alone, and that the
Republicans were using the issue just like they had used Willie Horton
to defeat Dukakis in 1988 when they played blatantly into the racism of
the South.

[Cha]

1. Neo fascists know that whatever

the topics they can win with voter fraud.

[oscar111]

2. Racism is so powerful a draw, GOP doesnt have to mention it

So,...to combat it

guarantee house values

guarantee jobs for all

develop fact sheets to retort racist ideas . Know of any?

[Jade Fox]

4. Its hard to fight this stuff, and the Republicans know it....

because people's responses are highly emotional and irrational.

I wish I knew how to counter it. We are always (rightly) trying to take
the high road and not appeal to people's fears and predjudices. The
Right has no problems with that. If it works, they do it.

[eleonora]

3. we need a 'vote democrat, get free beer' campaign

that's the only way we can win the south -puke-

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. We must be suspicious of

'new issues' that are brought forth during the next election year. Pesonally, I think gay marriage is a good idea, but the timing of it makes me suspicious. Instead of helping the cause, I believe it took the cause back several years.