I fully agree with what Amos said, above: "If you are willing to state your views on the issues", etc.

So far, I have rarely (never?) heard a self-described Republican Christian, Bush-supporting, Iraq-war supporting, deficit-supporting, -in-favor-of-antagonizing-the world person actually explain WHY they are the above.

* What is it that you actually like about Bush? Just saying that "he says it like it is and sticks to it" is not an explanation. Tell me in what way you think his interpretation and his stance are productive and maybe I will understand.

* Tell me WHY you think we are in Iraq and what we have realistic hopes of accomplishing there.

* Tell me WHY we are piling up debt that we have absolutely no hope of diminishing in our lifetimes? Tell me why we are loading it onto our children and our grandchildren? Don't explain it by way of the recession, 9/11, the Iraq war or even Clinton. We started the deficit spending long before any of those. (Remember, we had all that extra money and so we were giving it back to the people via tax cuts? And then, remember, we were in a recession and therefore we needed more tax cuts? Based on that rationale, if we had NO money being paid to our governments we would be getting along swimmingly.

* Tell me WHY we decided we don't need to worry about friends, long time, understanding and supportive as they have proved to be over the years?

That would be a start.