Reply #405: It's not just trolls, though there are those . . .

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but there are also folks who feel passionately about their choices and they are ambitious and optimistic about getting their candidate to the general election. That's good energy that can be channeled to the party's favor this early out, a good way away from the end of the Bush regime.

It doesn't matter if we don't have the same horse, just so long as we make sure we're prepared to get behind our nominee in the general against the republicans. In the meantime, we can't afford to spend much time over-analyzing our own candidates to the exclusion of a direct focus on the opposition. Lot's to do there that we all can agree on. That's the way I would approach the politics of it all.

I'd certainly want to spend a good deal of time promoting my candidate's agenda and record as I wouldn't expect to get much mileage from my opponent or the media. Secondly, I'd want to spend time dissecting the record and agenda of the opposition. Overall, I would take whatever time I had to spare to reach out and listen to the concerns of the actual voters I want to influence.

The rest, including all of the internal party acrimony and recrimination that goes with political battles, will sort itself out without a lot of fuel from me.



my direct attack on the opposition:

Rudiments of a Tyrant's Reign http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x614624