Last Friday night I was reading Professor Krugman's blog and he had a post entitled "Niallism" and one of the responders was a woman named Jane III 42nd Parallel. She put forth a interesting idea about a strategy that is being employed by the Right Wing. She says.
They intentionally say stupid things b/c that puts dems in the position of having to correct them.Nobody likes being told they are wrong. But, dems tell people they are wrong regularly because because we are forced to.
But all that does is alienate everybody else.