What's the one argument you use to convince Repub voters

[Danger Duck]

to step over to the light side of the force?

I just use a simple phrase:
Imagine what it would be like right now if we had not invaded Iraq.

This really seems to hit them between the eyes. All of the spinning stops, and they realize what a headache it is to pretend to support *. I'm telling you, his own party has to be running out of steam.

[kikiek]

1. I like to point out that he isn't acting like a republican. Their party

has been hijacked. Especially if they're conservative.

[CaTeacher]

3. I use the anti-war, anti-death

penalty approach. It is time we had a government that is truly more compassionate.

[Zynx]

2. I say that he's a liberal who is spending us into oblivion.

The swing in the budget balance from 2000 to 2004 is actually larger than that of the New Deal from 1932 to 1936 as a percent of GDP.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. Economy and health care.

With the war and oil as fall-back for the tough cookies.

Always stops them in their tracks.

My superior command of the issues helps. ;-)

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

5. I liked the LTTE I posted earlier today...

Can't take credit for it, but think it's a good hypothetical...What if GWB had been president during the Cuban Missile Crisis? MKJ

[MichiganVote]

6. Well I'm a little more devious

I like to talk about the morning of 9/11 and what a hell ringer of a day it was from just before 9am until about 3pm what with hundred of calls to the office, parents picking up kids, teachers anxiously turing on TV's, and student melt downs in the hallways.

Then I innocently say, "Its a wonder George Bush could sit still that 7 minutes in that elementary school. I know how bad it was in my school and I had no time for anything but crisis management for most of the day. I just can't imagine how tense that school principal must have been."

They usually stammer and murmur something dismissive but I know I've gotten under their skin.

[FreakinDJ]

7. When a Dem is in office we all have jobs and money

[StClone]

8. None Work

Most of the Right-wingers I encounter will fight to the death for the right to be wrong. It reminds me of a social worker trying to save crack-addicted and molested as a child hookers that have never known 'normal.' Very few can change and few can. Most have built up a thick self-defense to having to admit or even realize that their life is really skewed.

[pbg]

9. I compare Bush to his daddy

On the economy: GHWB initiates a tax cut. When the economy tanks, he admits his mistake and raises them again and the economy recovers.

Not W.

On war with Iraq: GHWB spends months and months and months putting together an alliance of nearly every nation on the planet, gets the Saudis and the Japanese to pay for 90% of it, goes in with a clearly defined mission--and leaves as soon as that specific mission was accomplished. To minimal American casualties.

Oh no, not W.

My finish: "Now look. I know your positions and I'm not going to try to turn you into a liberal (not today, anyway), but don't you see that while GHWB was a lifelong public servant with long diplomatic experience, GWB is the idiot boss's son who'd NEVER BEEN OUTSIDE THE US IN HIS LIFE, who ran every business he had into the ground until his rich connections bailed him out? And don't you see that the current state of the USA is just what happens when you turn the firm over to the boss's idiot son?"

If they're more history-literate, I mention Grant and Harding.

[Booster]

10. One of my favorites was when I had on my John Kerry

t-shirt and a guy said "he's not qualified to be President". I very sweetly said "would you list Bush's qualifications for me 'cause I can't for the life of me remember what they were". The guy was stopped dead in his tracks. I waited a few minutes and said "that's what I thought" and walked away. God, that felt good.

[teryang]

11. They're theives- look at the deficit- who's getting the money?

Look what they're doing to the Armed Forces. They don't know what they're doing. They're spending TRILLIONS on the military and we're bogged down in a guerilla war.

Also, who let 911 happen?

If they've seen F911 they know the administration is double dealing.

Many conservatives find Patriot Act, Gitmo, and Abu Ghraid scary.

[realFedUp]

12. a few things...

government isn't smaller, it's larger,
the budget isn't a surplus anymore, it's a huge deficit with large interest payments, and with China holding a lot of our debt,
jobs have decreased,
health care costs have risen, hospitals have closed,
consumer prices are up, which leads to lower spending,
terrorists have grown in numbers,
we don't have moral friendships in the world, just economic alliances,
our own national mirror has clouded, we've deepened the
religious animosities to strengthen a Republican political base,
environmental standards have loosened, scientist's conclusions
are disregarded unless they conform to Bush goals, women's rights
to choose their own reproductive lives and thus their economic
lives hang in the balance under conservative judges,

and finally democracy...the only thing that really separates
us from the rest of the world, hangs by a slim thread. You
may enjoy your gated life, but once you step outside of it,
it won't look the same if we have four more years of Bush Inc.

[ComerPerro]

13. i consider myself lucky if i can convince them to leave me alone

[Poiuyt]

14. I attack Bush from the right

Huge deficits, trips to Mars, amnesty for illegal aliens (Republicans hate that one!). Bush is nothing but a big spending politician.

[H2O Man]

15. The environment and young Americans dying

for Halliburton. I spoke to an old "red neck" I enjoy yesterday: I asked him about how many times Halliburton has been caught stealing from the public .... and then asked him about his job experience -- how often could you get caught stealing at your job, Bill, before you got fired? He shook his head, and said "you know, you are right."