Reply #63: SUGGESTION

[troublemaker]

I posted this in your previous thread, but there's no harm in this duplication.

The Kerry campaign *desperately* needs strong, narrative, colorful and seemingly commonsense talking points. Most of our surrogates are getting killed out there. I'm not talking policy or substance here, just intellectual and rhetorical style. Not strategy, but narrow debate tactics.

And I can promise you that DU excels as a menagerie of diverse intellectual styles. This is a brain-storming engine. DU cannot make decisions or even follow orders effectively. But this place can offer independent thinking of a type that's difficult to generate in an active campaign.

SUGGESTION: Post one "tough" TV question a day requesting answers of less than 50 words. Keep the focus very, very narrow. One specific question phrased a certain way. (And if I were you I'd say up front that there would be no public feedback from you of any sort for obvious reasons. All anyone would want is that it be read by somebody in a position to pick up something worthwhile if it was there to be found.)

I know you have sought similar feedback, but the best way to do something on DU is through the forum itself where people can play off each other. It energizes everyone and people can see how something else is close, but if you tweak it thusly...

This is a marketplace of ideas, so use it for what it is. Real-time feedback creates a dynamic system. What I'm proposing is a completely different process from eliciting the same thing privately.

If that's not making sense, just try it once. There's no harm in it, and it would be excllent for morale.