If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.
I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?
The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans.