Reply #1: Here is a specific example from Monday's New York Times

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The NYT talked to a 62 year-old guy with a 60 year-old wife (a breast-cancer victim), someone who has everything to gain from Obama's proposed healthcare reforms, yet he is actively telling his Member of Congress to vote against reform.

“This is about the future of our country as we know it,” Mr. Collier warned, “and may mean the end of our country as we know it.”

“We’ve got to do something about those people who can’t get insurance,” he said. “There has to be a safety net there. But I don’t want that safety net to catch too many people.”

While Mr. Collier said he did not object to paying more to support coverage for the truly needy, he predicted that a universal coverage system would dole out tax dollars to “lazy and irresponsible people who play the system.”

The explanation in this case is pretty simple:

The Colliers are committed conservatives who have voted Republican in presidential elections since 1980. They receive much of their information from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh’s radio program and Matt Drudge’s Web site.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/health/policy/25georgia.html