In defending your candidate against the attacks from supporters of other candidates. . .

[wndycty]

. . .do you often find yourself coming off as a hater of other candidates even though you like the rest of the field and could very easily support the others.

[silverweb]

1. I don't think so.

I make a point of promoting my candidate without attacking other Democrats -- though I may have come off as a bit negative once or twice, which I regret.

The reTHUGs, on the other hand, are fair game, one and all!! :D

[Vincardog]

2. I can not control how others react. They can control how they take things.

[AlCzervik]

3. i don't base my support for a candidate by reading posts on a message board.

I think the haters cancel each other out. My plan is to see as many democratic candidates in person as possible, i think seeing them makes a difference.

[Bitwit1234]

4. Even tho you like the candidate that has spewers and bashers

throwing all kinds of crap at your innocent candidate, you find yourself making smart remarks trying to get back at the unprovoked attacks. But then you have to stop and think, stop it, you'll get at bad as the haters. Their problem is their candidate is steadily falling and they want to blame someone else.

[LWolf]

5. Other.

I do not hate any candidates, but I will sure as hell attack their piss poor positions and rhetoric.

If I think a candidate is bad for the country, and bad for the party, I'm going to say so. That doesn't equal "hate," no matter how hard the supporters of that candidate try to spin it.

I cannot "very easily" support many of the candidates, because I feel that the nation, and the party, is in danger of complete failure. I can see myself supporting some candidates in some circumstances, and I don't hesitate to voice what I DO support in other candidates' positions.

To be honest, I really don't like some parts of politics. I don't like lying. I don't like propaganda, and I don't like calling propaganda "spin." I don't like the "win at any cost" mentality. I don't like bullies. I don't like dumbing down issues. I don't like using polls to reinforce the stranglehold the money holders and the media have on the political process. I don't like calling media events that favor some candidates "debates."

I do hope that anyone who cares knows that my positions, my pov, come from my life: my experiences, my education, my values, and my sense of integrity. I hope that anyone who cares know that I am not only an idealist, but proud to be one, and that arguments that diminish ideals in any way are going to lose my respect right out of the gate.

I hope that people know that I respect that others' positions and pov come from the same. I can disagree with them, vehemently, without hating them or wishing them ill. I value anyone's input, including opposing viewpoints, when they are presented in such a way that they do not question my intelligence, my experience, or my thinking. At least, I do the first time I hear them. I may not value the same non-effective argument repeated ad nauseum.

If refusal to trade my hard-earned currency for someone's swamp land is interpreted as "hate," that's the error, and problem, of the interpreter. If I get sick enough of hearing people hawk swamp land, I might come to value the hawkers less than the land itself. That's still not hate.

I don't really give a flying fuck what political bullies think. I get along fine with everyone else.