Reply #16: While I agree with all your comments

[senseandsensibility]

please remember that the person placing the call is probably just a local Democrat with a strong desire to beat the repugs, not an operaative or someone with power to change the strategies being used by our "leadership". I know this because until this election cycle, I have been the ones making the calls. And I am just an anonymous member of my local Dem party with no more power than the people I was calling. I had no access to the "leaders" at all, and couldn't even report to them about comments I heard. So although I have fantasized about what I would say when the Dems call to ask me for money, I then imagine how I would have felt if someone said those things to me a couple of years ago. I may still speak my mind, but I will do so kindly, and will politely ask for them to relay my message to their precinct captain. I am sure it will go no farther, but perhaps I will feel better.