The other audience are the moderates and middle of the roaders. It's a keyphrase fed to people who sorta kinda keep up with the news and like to talk politics, but not *too* deeply. Makes everybody feel like someone is calling these turkeys on their crap. Doesn't matter if it is effective at changing conservatives' minds.
Wojtek wrote:
>[WS:] Smart move - beat the conservatives with their own arguments. OTOH,
>I used similar arguments with conservatives, but many were not baiting.
>
>For example, when I pointed the cost of Iraq war to a raging Repug fiscals
>conservative, he replied that he does not mind his taxes funding that war.
>
>This was quite revealing, indeed. This whole libertarian "small state"
>shtick is a thinly disguised ruse, a bunch of bullshit not worth the paper
>on which it is written - these troll do not mind big state as long as it
>siphons money upwards. They only object to government redistribution and
>social programs that benefit the 99 percent.
>
>
> > --
>Wojtek
At 07:39 PM 5/4/2013, shag carpet bomb wrote:
>I don't know, but I think citing expense is more a way to call the budget
>hawks on their bullshit than that's his preferred reason for shutting it down.
>
>At 03:21 PM 5/4/2013, Chuck Grimes wrote:
>>President Barack Obama cited the cost this week as one of many reasons to
>>shut down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, which burns through
>>some $900,000 per prisoner annually....
>>
>>http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/03/us-usa-guantanamo-costs-idUSBRE94211N20130503
>>
>>CG
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