I have decided

[lyricae]

That I am not interested in losing more friends by debating politics.  I previously made several posts regarding Sarah Palin and I could make many many many more.  However, previous election arguments have taught me that friends are more important than trying to convince someone I am right and they are wrong.  I could keep arguing and others could

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[wrog]

The effort may turn out to be ultimately futile, but it is never pointless. You never know for sure until you try. And I do value it when people can point out actual flaws in my arguments or facts that I've gotten wrong.

That said, you should also realize that there are rather a lot of externalities here, things that have happened in the past eight years (or earlier, in some cases). Sarah Palin could be the most wonderful, qualified, effective governor & vice-presidential candidate we've ever seen and Obama could have named a dead squirrel as his running mate and I would still be voting Democratic -- by which I mean an absolutely straight-D ticket all of the way down to the bottom -- for a wide variety of reasons.

So it would arguably be for the best if you don't view it as a personal failure that you haven't yet hit on the perfect argument to dissuade me from doing just that.

And it is also perfectly reasonable not want to spend one's time on efforts that are less likely to be productive. friends are more important than trying to convince someone I am right and they are wrong
it rather amazes me that anyone would think the converse. I have lots of friends who are wrong about stuff.

You might have noticed, for example, that the person whose email I quoted is still undecided. This is despite any number of other discussions we've had where s/he has agreed with every particular I've given about stuff that's gone wrong in the past eight years. You can imagine my frustration. But people have to make their own decisions. And said person is not going to cease to be a friend if it happens to go the wrong way.