I HATE your candidate!

[Mythsaje]

See, made you look.

:evilgrin:

Why is it that the negative often draws more attention than the positive? This fact may indeed be the most frustrating thing about DU lately. Venom and vitriol are rewarded with attention, while hope and determination are passed on as being of little interest.

Is that all we have left? Anger, impotent rage, and sorrow bordering on despair?

That is SO sad.

As we march ever on toward the campaign season, we are confronted by a thousand threads about the inappropriate nature of this candidate or that candidate, and reasoned debate descends into pointless exercises of thoughtless bashing. Personally I think any of the major candidates would be a VAST improvement over what's there now, even if some (naming no names) are tied to corporate interests. I'm seriously wondering if there's any way we can get around that now. The only way to change that, I believe, would be to amend the laws to eliminate private campaign financing and make the TV networks give away airtime to various candidates.

Public financing of campaigns, an end to corporate personhood, and a serious re-evaluation of the drug war are three of my most pressing concerns, aside from the war and healthcare reform, of course. Near as I can tell, none of the major candidates have mentioned any of these first three things, though Edwards has come closest with his anti-poverty and pro middle-class platform.

I DON'T hate any of the candidates, though I wish they were more accessible in some respects. Accessible to us "little people" that is. They're ALWAYS accessible to the monied interests. But, considering the alternative (and we're seeing the alternative right now. If by some chance a Repug wins the WH again, this little party will continue in much the same way as it's going right now and that would be a crime of epic proportion), I'd just as soon see any of these candidates get in office.

If we have to box with one another, let's at least put on some gloves first. These folks are our allies. Our brethren. Fellow travelers.

I can't believe I have to keep reminding some people of this.

<sigh>

[Rosemary2205]

1. I consider it all part of the fun.

If a candidate can't take a few punches in the primaries then he/she/it isn't goign to hold up well when the whole world starts beating them down as Pres.

Just my 2 cents.

[Mythsaje]

4. It's not so much the bashing of the candidates that's of issue

it's the bashing of one another.

[Rosemary2205]

7. Bashing can be in the eye of the beholder IMHO

Yes, we do have poster's who's only purpose in being here is to try and start flamewars. But most of us have gotten into a tussle of one sort or another with other posters. That happens when people have strong opinions about things.

[BlooInBloo]

12. The old plausible-deniability -cum-relativism defense. Genius.

[Rosemary2205]

16. LOL

:hi:

[dkofos]

2. WHY??

[AlCzervik]

3. i still don't have a candidate yet.

[Mythsaje]

5. Me either, though I'm leaning towards Edwards...

I can lean a long time before I make a determination.

I'm very analytical and it take me a long time to pick through the data and come to a conclusion.

[AlCzervik]

6. me too, last time it was easier for me, i loved Dean.

this time i'm waiting and the other thing is that who knows 3 months from who will be in and who will be out.

[Lerkfish]

10. I don't either, yet. I like progressive platforms, which means

none of the MSM-certified candidates are addressing my concerns at the moment.

[MADem]

13. Me neither...unless Gore jumps in the pool. NT

[EFerrari]

8. Well said.

lol

We'll get through it.

[Lerkfish]

9. I use the ignore feature a lot, and learned a valuable lesson this weekend when

I was on vacation and accessed the site without my personal settings.

certain people I have on ignore for being excessively obsessed with certain candidates really post A LOT of threads I haven't been seeing, all of them heavy with agenda, all of them repetitive, all of them pointless.

it was refreshing to come back home and get my board back again.

so, I suggest the ignore feature, it helps weed through the obvious candidate plants and focus on real issues.

[bonito]

14. I can't help thinking that a few are

Paid operatives, ignore maybe but an infection keeps growing if not countered.

[AlCzervik]

15. if there are they seem to mostly tear each other apart.

[More Than A Feeling]

11. This is good. A vast improvement over name-calling and santimonious

lectures about how the party owns your ass and you'd better pony up your vote or else DUers will post even more unhinged rants! Those rants do nothing but alienate me, and make voting for a corporate Democratic candidate in the general look less appealing.