Reply #121: Well then, knowing what you know from this experience...

[LoZoccolo]

...you might be able to see where I was coming from regarding Lieberman in 2006. My argument during the general election was simply that it was bad strategy for the grassroots to paint him as a Republican because that would make Republicans more likely to vote for him rather than their own candidate Schlesinger. Just because I wasn't saying the worst possible thing about Lieberman that I could think of doesn't mean that I wanted him elected.

You can probably also see where I find complications with grassroots politics: it makes clever strategies that are sometimes counterintuitive much more difficult to implement, because it's difficult to make so many people on your side understand what you are trying to do (so that they don't wreck the whole thing), while at the same time trying to decieve the other side. And strategy is almost always somewhat counterintuitive because warfare is largely based on deception.