Reply #64: Along with many others, I have been preaching this "attack"

[itzamirakul]

tactic since right after 911, when the Republicans began their attack on Democrats as being nonpatriotic. Those of us in favor of this tactic, really supported it during the Kerry "swiftboating."

Unfortunately, we have many soft-hearted, generous-minded members of our party who do not believe in this tactic and who want us to remain "above the fray" and not "stoop to using the GOP tactics" back on them. It is this divide that allows the Repubs to say we are unstable and weak. Our centrist members don't seem to mind these charges as long as we remain "just and honorable" while being "slain" in the press and at the polls. So we end up fighting each other rather than fighting the other party. We call each other worse names than we ever call the Repubs.