Reply #21: Let's break it down [View All]

If you mean we can't reach the people who are actually demonstrating in front of the hospice, you're probably right. However, the Time Magazine poll showed that even Americans who consider themselves born-again Christians support the decision to remove Mrs. Schiavo's tube.

We should bear in mind also that Jimmy Carter is just as much a born again Christian as Jerry Falwell.

When you strike at what many here would see as the irrational nature of the beliefs of those following Randall Terry and his ilk, even those who might agree with us on some part of this issue feel the slap.

We're losing elections in red states, but in most places not badly. We don't need to pick up whole blocks of their voters; we just need to make some inroads among them. The approach outlined above is a reasonable one to that end. Even if you're right and I'm wrong, we've nothing to lose by trying.