Legitimate controversy

[xrepub]

I like candidate a so I point out his good points.
I prefer a to b so I point out b's bad points.

You do the same from your point of view (prefer b to a)

So far so good, and we are acting like good dems. Maybe we feel that removing the bush is important, so after we nominate a candidate (a or b), we get together and support him. This is still good.

What is not so good, is when we rant and rave against each others candidate, or when we use Rovian methods to disgrace each others candidates.

Please respect the other posters on this board. Sometimes, it seems like there are enemy agents here trying to spread discord.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. Thank you

This needed to be said. Remember who the enemy is, folks!

[SheilaT]

2. I keep on posting

that we all have to remember the enemy is NOT another candidate (no matter how ill we may think of him) but George W Bush and his cabal.

I have my preferred candidate and I personally think all the others are terrible choices. But I try very hard not to say mean and nasty things about them, rather good things about my guy.

I'm very concerned that the current ugliness will come back to haunt us, both here on DU and in the country at large.

[H2O Man]

3. Amen.

Know who your friends are. Beware of those trying to divide our party. The republicans know that no matter who the candidate is, they are in for a tough fight. They will resort to illegal, immoral, and just plain nasty tactics!

[Sir_Shrek]

4. Agreed

Healthy, even emotional discourse is good. But folks need to learn to either keep it clean or "walk away".

[SeattleRob]

5. Agree...

The Repubicans have been using the divide and conquer technique for decades and it is very sad to see it working once again.

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. They ARE enemy agents!

I have come to the conclusion that the rabid posters (they know who they are) are RW plants. They want Bush reelected and are trying to act like left wing ideologues so no one would ever suspect they are RW disrupters. A Rovian tactic. They will never convince me otherwise. JMCPO

[Beearewhyain]

7. I've wondered myself

I often notice that some posters use the same, non substantive talking points coming out of the RW media. Mainly "character" type posts that have little to do with the real world political challenges we (and the candidate) are facing.

[helleborient]

8. On the ground campaigning in Iowa is very clean...

I was there this weekend and, as is usual with most campaigns, lots of going door to door passing out literature and talking to people. We saw people working for other candidates, but I would have had to hunt to find disparaging comments to each other or anything at all like that.

There were Gephardt bumper stickers in the lot for the Al Gore event I went to, but no attempts at all to disrupt anything.

[goodhue]

9. welcome to DU!

and thanks for pointing out the disheartening lack of respect sometimes envinced by posters here

nothing wrong with pointing out candidate b's perceived bad points. it it the tone of the pointing out and even more so the responses, which is sometimes out of hand