Something Obama/Hillary zealots seem to be forgetting ...

[sjdnb]

Damage the party's candidates at your own peril. If your ego is so great that you are willing to gamble away what, otherwise, should be a routing of the GOP - have at it. Mostly, I've seen Obama supporters misrepresenting, skewing, lying about Hillary's record - but, it's true for both sides as a whole.

Diss Hillary, diss Bill, diss all the Dems - heck, in your eyes they're no better than Bush, right? Might as well vote McCain?

As an Edwards/Gore supporter I find both candidates lacking. But, I'm not willing to 'eat my young' just because the folks I supported are no longer in the running.

Trust me, there are many, many, 'independents' (aka folks who don't follow this stuff as closely as the rest of us) who actually believe McCain is a 'rebel' candidate - an independent who can bring this country together and is a true 'moderate'.

So, keep it up if you want four years of President McCain.

[Nitrogenica]

1. K&R

President McCain

[cascadiance]

10. Seems like we need to "reremind" people of this and other campaign speeches of McCain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U39zae4IxUA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu29F8NfRvI

Does America really need to vote for that insanity? I think a majority will have second thoughts if we break through the MSM filters to reremind them of this crap he'd been spewing!

[zabet]

2. Yes. A lot of the candidates' supporters

have gone one step beyond the circular firing
squad. They are using these....

[BrightKnight]

9. Some Obama supporters were waving that about when they hijacked MoveOn. - n/t

[fuzzy otter pop]

3. You really think this is anything compared to what is coming their way soon?

if this sparing does them that much damage

then they are going to be easy pickens for the repukes come November


if we get it all out in the open now
maybe we can defuse it

of course if we don't
then the repukes will hit us with it
when we least expect it

and
then what will you say???

"ummmmmmmmm, i didn't see that coming????"

look under the rocks first, so you can be prepared for the slime that oozes out

[sjdnb]

4. The GOP is all but dead and buried ... only our foolishness can revive them

Their poll numbers suck, their Senate/House members are opting to retire in droves, their donations are lagging FAR behind the Democrats as are their primary voters.

This would have been the best of times to elect a progressive (like JE or AG), but that is not to be - for whatever reason.

Fact is, it is our election to lose - both at the Presidential and the Legislative level.

So, if anyone wants to hand the GOP ammunition ... go ahead - but, understand, you are eating your own.

[fuzzy otter pop]

5. you are being naive,

Republicans are like sharks
with lots of money

they don't sleep

they just eat

and

run attack adds

and make little republicans

please

never
ever
underestimate

the power of evil

[sjdnb]

6. And our continuing to fear them, without warrant, gives them the power

they don't have - in reality. But, keep cowering in fear of their power -- it's done the country and the party so well to date :sarcasm:

[jacksonian]

8. people in primaries can't really fight back as much

as in a GE against the other party. You want to win primaries but still come together later, which makes attacks trickier to do and trickier to defend. Too much infighting between evenly matched candidates can damage the base and kill both candidates.

[Yael]

7. Happy to be rec #5 on this prose

[Catherine Vincent]

11. Correct! Check this article out:

You've got Romney, McCain and Obama attacking Hillary Clinton....

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5509940.html

Feb. 3, 2008, 6:43PM
Rival presidential candidates focus attacks on Clinton


By CHARLES BABINGTON
Associated Press

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WASHINGTON — The top presidential candidates and their big-name supporters campaigned from coast to coast Sunday, but one contender seemed atop everyone's mind: Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Republicans John McCain and Mitt Romney contrasted themselves, and each other, with Clinton as though she were the nominee. Her Democratic rival, Barack Obama, played along to a degree, saying Clinton is so polarizing that he is their party's better bet.

Rather than diverting the less-than-flattering attention, Clinton embraced it.

"I've been taking the incoming fire from Republicans for about 16 years now, and I'm still here, because I have been vetted, I have been tested," she said in a TV interview before campaigning in Missouri and Minneapolis.

"There's unlikely to be any new surprises," Clinton added, implying the same cannot be said of Obama, who has been in Congress three years.