Reply #52: No lack of courage here [View All]

[pierle]

Here in Monmouth County New Jersey (read Gail Sheehy's Middletown America for a better picture, particularly as it relates to 9/11), the home of the Christie Whitman revolution, I have not been allowed to do business with people because of my Kerry button. My signs in the front yard were knocked down three time prior to the one I mentioned in the first post which itself was a home made steel post version sledgehammered two feet into the ground. I have had verbal fights and converted well over a dozen people solely because I was wearing a button. A fund raiser, I have been with Kerry from the regime change comment in 2003.

What I see in the no-more-red/blue-designations concept is a way of backing off, backing away and that is what I meant by the "intellectually motivated" comment. Licking wounds is all well and good, but trying to change terminology isn't the way the way things will get better. It is going to take sticking to our principles and being tough.

I am not a huge fan of paralysis by analysis.

As for the first post situation, guess I ended that pretty quickly.