Some of us, anyway.
You do what works.
Whatever gets Obama elected.
Anything. Period.
Because it is just that important.
No crying about the moral high ground, and no whining about how that makes us no better than them.
They have too much of a head start... we could sacrifice bunnies to Cthulu, tell kids there is no Santa, and preemptively invade the Vatican...
We would still be way better than the Republican Party. Because they are just that bad.
Facts, schmacts.
Whatever it takes.
The alternative is too dire to take the chance.
Suffice it to say I was stunned when I read that comment just moments ago. I'd expect this type of talk from Steve Schmitt and Nancy Pfotenhauer, because if you change Obama to McCain and Republican to Democratic it's a variation on the Republicans' message through and through:
You do what works.
Whatever gets McCain elected.
Anything. Period.
Because it is just that important.
No crying about the moral high ground, and no whining about how that makes us no better than them.
They have too much of a head start... we could sacrifice bunnies to Cthulu, tell kids there is no Santa, and preemptively invade the Vatican...
We would still be way better than the Democratic Party. Because they are just that bad.
Facts, schmacts.
Whatever it takes.
The alternative is too dire to take the chance.
I just never thought I'd read it only DailyKos. The truth of matter is that regardless of how you spin it, we wouldn't be better than the Republican Party if we did that.
No. We would be the Republican Party. Before this election cycle heated up, before the Convention, Palin and McCain's bounce we were all too happy with the way things were going. This is an election about change and we were the guys who were for it always, not just the guys who were against it before we were for it. Now by all rights I'm a young guy in college trying to survive on Ramen. I don't have all the life experience some people on DKos have. But I grew up with George W. Bush. I've seen how bad it's gotten even where I live.
I know we need change.
But needing change doesn't mean you try to kill your opponent by innuendo and lying, as many on this board - even those amongst us whom up until recently I held in the highest respect - suggest we ought to do. I don't give a damn how dire the scenario is: when you give up your ideals and your morality to win against those who have done the same, you give up your right to do better for this country.
This country needs a character debate. We need it now and we need it bad. Our leaders should be better than this filth. We should hold them to a higher standard, not hold the bar so low that they could trip over it and still win the expectations game. The big, bad world is out there, and it's our guy's platform that we can make something better of it. Anything less is the type of cowardice that's defined the last eight years of lawlessness in the White House and the last twenty years of the Republican Party. Stop acting like we can play morality games while destroying the reputation of someone by innuendo. That's just disgraceful to this site and to the Democratic Party. We owe it to ourselves to be better than our opponents, because the situation truly is too dire to take that chance.