Reagan was right.. What we (should have) learned this year

[SoCalDem]

the 11th commandment is not a bad idea..

Sometime before ANY campaigning or positioning starts the next time there's an election, there needs to be a private symposium/kaffeeklatsch/whatever and ALL potential candidates should be required to attend..

They should all be made to suffer through watching the words of same-party candidates being spun into cutting commercials against the eventual winner...and stored away via youtube FOREVER, no matter how many years pass before someone chooses to run for office..

The cruel/cutting words/phrases should be reserved for our REAL opponents.

If you cannot win a primary without lying about, belittling, slandering your fellow democrats running against you, you do not deserve to win, and you may be doing lifelong harm to the eventual winner, and to the party..

Just as the "bipartsan" crappola (see Joe Lieberman) votes on the senate/house floor, and the rush to get your mug in the picture with GW Bush, provide "cover" for the most attrocious legislation, it ALWAYS comes back to haunt us..

Just stop it already...

One other suggestion:

No more "running for office" after you have no money.. If you cannot garner legitimate money=support from your fans, and you have to run a max-out-the-credit-card race, you do NOT belong IN the race...

And I would also suggest PayGo for the suppliers of services as you run.. No more stiffing the "little people" who supply campaigns with stuff from flowers to sound systems..

If you do not pay off your suppliers within the month ,you are DQed from the next primary..:)
(and I don't mean a drive-thru Dairy Queen dipped cone)

[greguganus]

1. Great suggestions, especially the last paragraph. K/R. n/t

[dkf]

2. Everyone was pretty good about this except for you know who.

Good luck trying to get that bunch to do things for the good of the party.

[greguganus]

3. Hopefully we won't have to worry about you-know-who ever again. n/t

[dkf]

4. Wishful thinkng I'm afraid.

[JTFrog]

5. Agree 100% and then some. n/t

[No Elephants]

6. Dem candidates always give the Pub nominee ammo. Stop!