The way Democrats approach primaries ...It's KILLING us...

[SoCalDem]

For several election cycles, we have done pretty much the same things, and have gotten our asses handed to us..

It's a forgone conclusion that the verbal attacks that happen in primaries are gift-wrapped and presented to the opposition for further research.

We need to start taking a page from the repube playbook... It's been said that Bush had many "opponents" in his primary the first time, but looking back , we all know that wasn't "really" true.

The repubes in charge, behind the scenes, anoint the "one they want" and do their own undermining of the "others" before they can inflict severe damage on the "chosen one"..

Did we hear digs at *² about his military or DUI or any of the stuff we know about him, coming from his primary opponents? Nope..

On our side, the "flip-flop" stuff came from our own primaries, as did a lot of the stuff that would later be hung on Kerry's neck..

I know there are HUGE egos involved in running for president, but if the party is so willing to concede a race that they "may still have a chance at" AFTER spending as much money , time and effort, why on earth does the party not step in during primaries and exert some realistic "pruning" before irreparable damage is done to the eventual candidate?