Asking the Right Questions

Bookworm looks at the art of asking inconvenient questions: Asking the Right Questions

Over time, in business negotiations, I have learned that the best way to buy time while digesting information is to ask questions to better flesh out the issue. I don’t mean a Socratic dialog, I mean questions meant to make the other person think about their position(s). I offer the following in the context of the very excellent comments that have been made on this blog, recently, about how to constructively engage Liberals, especially the Liberals who have no idea of why they think the way they do, not to mention having a clue regarding why conservatives and libertarians think as we do. I propose that this latter designation represents a very significant block of prospective voters and we need to work on them, not just before November but with an eye to 2012.
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Here are some examples of what I mean:

When a Liberal uses the race card: "why do you think that people on the Left are so utterly obsessed with peoples’ race?"

When a Liberal talks about America’s supposed insults to Islam: "Why do you think that all countries the surrounding the world of Islam are subject to Muslim attacks and terrorism?"

On Democrats being for the little guy: "Why do you think it is that the Democrat leadership is so filthy rich?"

On the Tea Party: "With what beliefs of the Tea Party do you disagree?"

On Democrats being for minorities: "Why do you think that blacks have fared so badly in Democrat-controlled inner cities since Johnson’s War on Poverty of 50 years-ago?"

One Liberal Dependency on Government: “"lease share your thoughts with me on how one can be simultaneously dependent on Government programs and still be free?"

When Liberals talk about Islam’s tolerance for others: "How many Muslims do you know? Can you tell me what’s in the Koran about tolerance toward others?" (OK, that’s two questions).