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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 08:09 PM
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If Ralph stays in, don't do what DOESN'T work!
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This is what doesn't work, as 2004 proved:

1)Pissing away a million dollars on court challenges to Ralph's ballot lines. All that did was make it a point of honor for the guy to stay in, because he would have looked like he was caving in to bullies if he'd withdrawn in the midst of that. Don't spend money on useless tactics, ok folks?

2)Abusing and insulting people who say they support the guy. Again, you don't convert people by bullying them.

3)Refusing to adopt any of his agenda. We should at least take the guy's stands on foreign policy and healthcare. The only people who'd be upset would be people who were never going to vote for us anyway.

4)Walking up to Naderites with a celphone cam and taping ourselves saying "booga booga booga" to them. All this does is make the person who does the booga boogaing look like an idiot and the Naderites don't even get it that they're being insulted.

The idea is, treat people who are sympathetic to the idea's the Ralphster talks about(ideas which should be in our platform anyway)as people we could possibly win over. Yes, the hard core won't swing over, but at least you can avoid provoking them into working harder against us.

The hard line and the sneer don't work. Dialog and engagement can. It's not as emotionally satisfying, but in the end it's more effective. Agreed?

Let's win. And let's win be fighting hard and fighting decently, not acting like thugs.
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