I am someone who is proud to not be blindly partisan and proud to be someone that always votes.<p>But for many people, if there party tells them something they accept it as truth. My party says it, I believe it, that settles it.<p>Two things the GOP are very good at is branding and riling up their base. Here are direct quotes from e-mails from "Michael Steele, RNC Chairman" &#60;ecampaign@gop.com&#62;. I only went back about 1 month)<p>"socialist health care takeover scheme"<p>"socialist nightmare"<p>"past the liberal media filter"<p>"health care experiment"<p>"trillion dollar health care gamble"<p>"the liberal media's biased coverage"<p>"impose socialism on America's health care"<p>"Obama Democrat scheme to seize a fifth of our economy"<p>"put Washington bureaucrats between Americans and their doctors"<p>"their leftist goal of controlling every facet of American life."<p>"the American people don't want to surrender their health care freedoms to Big Government."<p>"Republican senators are on the side of the American people"<p>When I try to tell people that the proposed reforms have much in common with proposals passed by the house under GOP leadership they don't believe me. It doesn't fit the narrative their party has extolled AND I tried to explain, I don't have a nice easy story to tell.<p>I argued with those in OFA that they should be selling health care reform as a moral issue. But they don't listen to me either. At least in the e-mails from the Dems there is a textarea where I can express my opinion. GOP e-mails contain push polls and only once did they have a textarea (the form didn't work the first time I tried it).<p>The Dems believe in governing with PHD's, the GOP in governing with MBA's. MBA's are better at marketing.