Simple advice for campaign activists.

[flamin lib]

Are there reasons I like my candidate better than the others? Shit yeah!

Are they good, positive, concrete reasons that sound good when I say them? I think so.

Are there things about the other candidatures that I could use to make them look bad? Of course.

Will I use those things here or elsewhere to make my candidate look like a better choice? Absolutely not.

Here’s why: Anything said, printed or even hinted at during our primary will wind up in somebody’s attack ad/viral email/talking point in the general election. You've already seen it in the MSM.

One of the reasons Reagan was successful was the 11th Commandment, “Thou shalt not speak evil of a fellow Republican.” During the primary the Democrats slugged it out and everybody was bruised but the Republicans (by comparison) all looked like positive figures.

The message to the voters was “Democrats are mean, Republicans are nice.”

We don’t need to do their work for them.

Sell me on yours, don’t try to break the sale somebody else is making.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. You are so right

It is vital that we don't give the repukes ammunition to use against us.

[Egnever]

2. This ain't the 80's

Anything we could come up with the pukes can as well. It is far better to know our candidates weaknesses ahead of time than to be surprised come the GE.

[flamin lib]

3. Yeah, but

DU is politically active. Most people don't really pay attention, politics is just background noise. If the background noise is more negative from one party than the other that party will suffer proportionally.

Advertising works which is why there's so much of it. That's also why the general public hates all politicians--they all run negative ads. Even the winner looks bad to a lot of people.

Lets save the negative for the Republicans in the general.