An appeal to reason.

[trof]

I was gonna title this
TIME OUT!
but decided a kinder, gentler approach might win more converts.

I've been around here for a couple of years. I don't know what my post count is and that doesn't make me any smarter than the newest newbie anyway. It does give me some perspective.

I've never seen anything like what's gone on here in the last couple of days. The defeatism, hand wringing, and general doom and gloom "we're all gonna die" crap is just mind boggling for me. This isn't supposed to be that kind of place.

And it just feeds the freepers and the rest of our opponents.

I'm one of DU's geezers. I've been voting longer than many of you have been alive. I won't feed you a bunch of crap about "it's always darkest just before the dawn", but I will say, as has been pointed out here many times, it ain't a sprint, it's a marathon.

I'm not saying that all debate should be shut off. I am saying that we are beginning to feed on our own negativity. It's become a mania.

Sit back and take a deep breath.
And think about this:
What will I wear to Kerry's inaugural?
I plan to be there, and hope to meet many of you in the flesh.
WE WILL WIN.
In the words of Justin Wilson, "I gare-on-tee."