[saveliberty]

Mickey Kaus is no right winger and he’s on board with Porkbusters.

Samantha, I live in a very blue state. In this very blue state, we have come to the point where even liberals think that the Big Dig was assinine policy. I work with self identifying liberals who fear the R word, and when you talk to them about policies, they say that the state legislators are clueless and out of touch with real voters and taxpayers. The challenge here is that no R is able to evade the knee jerk reaction, even if there are a lot of areas where policy wise we could agree.

I am not saying that they are middle of the road here, what I am saying is that even most (all but two in fact) libs I know here believe that the state legislature is too far to the left of the electorate.

That’s an opportunity.

[samantha]

That is a fine example of what I go through when I meet People and do not tell them I am Republican. We have Conversations and agree on most topics that are Conservative Republican Ideals, and they are shocked when I finally tell them that I am on the Republican Executive Committee and Republican Women’s Club. Then I really freak them out when I tell them if you are not a Republican and you agree with me on almost all the subjects, you are fooling yourself. Then I show them the card that lists all the reasons “why I am a Republican”, and they sort of look like they are struck dumb. We have to do a lot of legwork, but the key is to talk about things before you let them know your party affiliation. They are trapped because they have never seen the comparison between the parties which shows a stark contrast.