Reply #59: If we get into a pissing contest with them over a MEANINGLESS gesture [View All]

then THEY WIN. That's as clear as I can make it. It wasn't just "the message" that got the GOP in power, it was ROSS PEROT. The shock and horror of the Clinton victory stuck with them, and does to this very day. The ones that split their vote and went with Ross came home, and came out to the polls. Then, there was Monica, and that angered them further, and kept them coming out to vote.

The irony is, they probably would have stolen THAT election for Old Bush had Ross not been in the mix. Too many GOP left Wimpy for H. Ross....

Newt Gingrich's CONTRACT (on) America had all the "right" words, but look at the legacy? BIGGER GOVERNMENT, War without End, Amen, and a strange concept of Family Values where the top three GOP hopefuls are serial divorcers and adulterers. You wanna frame issues, FRAME THOSE. Not nonsensical, tempest in a teapot flag issues. The sidebar crap that the GOP keeps bringing up is because they, not us, have NO NEW IDEAS.

If you insist on challenging and harping on them about nitpicky nonsense that THEY bring up, and they win, because THEY are controlling what is talked about. When you wrestle with a pig, the pig likes it, and you get covered in pigshit.

We need to blow off their bullshit, call it quickly what it is, and cut to the chase--the war, the economy, how's your gas prices, how's your paycheck, that kind of stuff, the stuff that MATTERS. Every time they whine FLAG, we slap them with WAR AND ECONOMY. That's how we win.