Make up your minds already

Republicans keep telling us about how they are in touch with America. Then they say things like this:

SCARBOROUGH: But, you know, following up on Rush’s point about how you need to go out on a teaching tour, I look at a budget that’s passed that the CBO says is going to bankrupt America. I look at a lot of policies that — that we’re moving towards that I think are terrible for America.

And then I look at polls that show that this president has 65, 66, 67 percent approval ratings. It seems to me, if you’re right and if I’m right, maybe we do need to go out and explain why and do a little teaching (via Think Progress).

So, basically, when the electorate generally disagrees with them, Republicans are Golden because they are in tune with what Americans want. When Americans reject their ideas, Americans need to be 'taught'—re-educated, if you will.

I think that if you have particular political/economic ideas that reasonable people can disagree about, then arrogance about being right is a turn off. They might take a page out of John Stuart Mill and keep their minds open and participate in the marketplace of ideas as an honest merchant rather than as a huckster selling knockoff watches in an alley.