A few years back some reporters showed up at the annual NRA convention. In a crowd full of suits, the reporters headed straight toward the mouth-breathing moron in the full camo get-up, who was only too happy to drool on cue. The result, of course, being exactly what the left-leaning network execs were hoping for: the unspoken message that gun owners are uneducated hicks who can't string together a coherent sentence, let alone make rational arguments for constitutional rights.

If you look, sound, or act uneducated while representing your cause -- especially one where the ignorant redneck steretype is already in force -- you are likely to be ridiculed by opponents of the cause and yelled at by supporters of it. And it's not about the occasional typo or misplaced apostrophe, nor whether you actually are uneducated or stupid. It's merely about how you present your argument to the world. If it looks like a text message from a 7th grader's cell phone, it only provides fuel for your "enemies" and disgust from your supporters.