Thoughts on Infighting about our respective candidate choices...

[elfwitch]

To a certain degree I think a couple of the candidates have a fair shot at winning the big prize. Whoever wins the nod needs to be aggressive in two ways. They need to play ball just as hard as the (R) set, no room for nice or fair play with these people. Second they need to point out loudly and clearly all of the horrible things that have been done to us in the last three years and show how they would reverse, repeal, or re-engineer the policies that are crippling us as a nation. Be bold and show how you plan to make things better. With the right team on board, any of the front-runners could do it. My fear is that all of the front-runners appear to an awful lot of people as if they are wishy-washy and callow. To a certain degree nobody really seems willing to stand their ground and say, "Hey the guys in charge now have screwed us all! I am not going to allow that continue, and this is how I am going to fix things..." If you doubt this check the Daily Show logo Race FROM the White House any time they do a bit on the Dems running. Sure it is satire, but there is a certain amount of truth to any bit of comedy.

What it looks like is that the ones that currently have Congressional seats seem a bit too timid to really put themselves out there and take a hard stand, possibly for fear of losing their seat if they don't win the nomination or the election. The ones that don't have incumbencies to protect seem to be scared of being labeled inexperienced and therefore don't say to the public, "Sure I don't have a lot of national experience, but neither did *. Unlike the current boob in office, I will hire only the best, brightest, and most qualified people to help me make sure that the interests and freedoms of ALL Americans are protected."

It is really easy to pick on the guy in front if you are behind. Most people make themselves feel better by tearing down the other guy. It's like saying, "Yeah she's a super-model but she is dumb as a post!" to make yourself feel a little better about being frumpy.

I understand everyone has their favorite. I have a favorite too. But being snarky about the guy who isn't your favorite makes us all look like a bunch of spoiled brat children. This is especially so when people drum up stupid personal attacks or begin trying to level charges of racism or elitism against each other.

So here is what I have come up with. Support your guy with all your heart. Do your best to get him the nomination. Yell from the rooftops how great he is and why he would be the beat ever President in the history of EVER. But don't try to make your guy look better by being a dink about the other guys. Instead of telling people that everybody but your guy is a jerk, why not tell everyone why your guy isn't one? Or better yet, tell people who don't know about any of our guys why any one of them would be better than the JERK currently in office.

A large reason why the women's movement failed is because women couldn't get together without tearing other women down. Stay-at-home Moms dumped on Career Moms. Career women dumped on Career Moms. Women who felt that make-up and such were there to make women weak dumped on ladies who liked to gussy up.

We don't have room to fail. If we fail now the game is over for EVERYONE. It is not just the health of our country that hangs in the balance. The fate of the world depends on all of us doing our part to see the evil bastards run out of town, banished forever, never to darken any doorstep again. We can't do that if we spend all out time being snippy about the other (D) guy. If you wanna snip, hit the (R)s with every bit of anger and frustration you got. Otherwise, the people who haven't made up their minds yet or the people who generally sit out of the process with think we are the JERKS and either vote for the (R) or not at all. Either way, we all lose.

Just my dos pesos!

[lastliberalintexas]

1. Great post

And I definitely agree with the call for civility.

But I wouldn't call Kucinich timid, even though he does have a seat to protect. :)

[elfwitch]

2. not just civility...

Sure that would be great too. But too many people are spending their time and energy being shitty about the wrong people. If the time and energy spent to create every negative post on this board about someone elses candidate was used to educate someone not on this board about why GW is giong to get us all killed (or worse), maybe the TV news, the AM radio, and the newspapers wouldn't be able to continue passing off the lies they tell every day. People everywhere would know that it is propagandous nonsense and demand a little journalistic integirty for a change.