Team Obama has asked all the liberal faithful to take to the airwaves and "overwhelm" conservative talk radio shows with the wisdom of their positions on healthcare. This strikes me as like asking the Christians to overwhelm the lions.
Rush Limbaugh is really the only talk radio I listen to anymore, (although I occasionally listen to Mark Levin when schedules permit) and he has liberal callers on all the time. But they are usually so detached from reality that they are mostly unpersuasive. It's not just that the are amateurs at arguing their points. Even the most persuasive advocates of central planning in healthcare would be unable to make a difference arguing with someone like Rush.
Like them or not, the men of conservative talk radio debate this stuff for a living... being persuasive is what they are all about. They are professionals who will make minced meat of any liberal caller. And the 'gotcha' style of arguing that is so persuasive on the left is usually ignored by the right because we care about results not intentions.
Liberals... you can certainly call if you want to. I wouldn't expect you to take advice from me anyway. But if I were you I honestly would skip it. It's only going to end up hurting your highly fragile egos. And while I think that would be fun to listen to, it doesn't really advance the debate.
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