Reply #46: shrill and silly

[PATRICK]

but nothing to match the anti-Clark post that manages to tar him with a very thick brush mainly based on the point he comes from Arkansas and must be the worst of the worst DLC subversives.

Would someone like to imagine a crystal ball and how these boards will be when the campaign for actual votes among the greater Democratic electorate gets underway? Look to your candidate's advantages and help them be pro-active campaigners, not more "timorous beasties" afraid of Rove's shadow. You have to worry about what YOU are going to do, not what the other guy is planning. At this point they are just as muddled as anyone else becasue we have several people who can take Bush down in a fair contest with ease and several others who are better and more deserving than Bush.

Attacking the blackbox tactics is one grim preoccupation that needs more grunt work from us rather than just the candidates. Voter registration and fundraising, meeetups and internet activities, marches and media pounding. Spreading OUR message against fraud, lying and misinformation is just as important as expecting our eventual choice to be a lonely perfect(or martyred) Messiah.

Mass rallies in America's face that Bush cannot match. Calling every newspaper and local station on the garbage and making our voices and dollars heard.... I think this selling one candidate over another from any whiff of fear is plain stupid wrong and self-defeating. Personally I might like one able to rack up the largest mandate but other things might be better in the long run.

The way I see it, taking your just estimation of GOP tactics, either a bunch of our guys can win or not one of them can. Namely, none of them can win alone, on a pedestal, while all our pockets are being picked as we stare at our candidate with teary admiration. Each one of us somewhere has to make a stand and face down the dirt. A few of us, some even here on DU, may be making a critical difference, letting the sparks fly and freeing the people's mind and votes.

This is war, not a beauty contest.