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Re: Roy Moore... Republicans keep Hitting Bullseyes
« Reply #120 on: December 17, 2017, 01:04:48 pm »
Some responses could have been:

- that doesn't matter
- he's not a real man, he's a girly girl

They went for #2.

I appreciate what you're trying to say, Michael, but I don't really think you can have a substantive debate with people who are planning to vote for a guy because he wears a cowboy hat and whips out his little pistol at a campaign rally. 

It may be sad, but it's a reality: for a large number of voters, elections aren't about issues, they're about clan loyalty.  There are many voters, on both sides,  who simply refuse to be swayed.  That's why Republican turnout was low in this election, and why such an unusually large number of Republican voters made the effort to go to the polls just to vote for a football coach instead of their party's candidate.

For the voter who votes Moore because "he's gonna go to Washington and fight them homersexuals and put God back in our schools and stand up for Baby Jesus" ...I think making fun of Moore's fake cowboy act is probably about as effective as any other argument. There's no point trying to reason with such people.  And it's probably less about attacking Moore and more about firing up Jones' own supporters.   Making fun of Stephen Harper's Village People cowboy vest didn't make Harper's own supporters abandon him, but it did boost the morale of his opponents.   Getting your own supporters in high spirits before the election could be the difference between "We're going to go to the polls and beat that fake cowboy!" and "meh, this is a lost cause, I'm going to stay home and watch Netflix."

 -k
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