This was just a comment, on a conservative site (conservativecalifornian). I think the point needs to be made, that the right is being guided by rhetoric, and a lot of republicans (maybe not right wing republicans, but republicans) don't realize this.
It is critical to reach across the divide, and stand for what America stands for, even with those with whom you disagree. [update: someone wrote that we should not, I think missing the point. The point has to do with why democrats have repeatedly lost. It means communicating with a wider audience, in ways that can resonate with most Americans. This post got almost no comments. And one that it did instead lashed out out republicans, instead of seeing that the point was to take the opportunity to convey what is a very basic and easy message to a larger American audience. The importance of this was covered in a subsequent diary entry,
"Look, this info is pretty bad. But why do you have to lash out at Murtha?
Marines are goin thru s** over there, their buddies are getting killed. This stuff happens when things get drawn out. We need maybe to gtf out, or maybe triple the troop size and get the job done?
But hanging Murtha is ANTI DEMOCRATIC.
We are not a nation that needs to BULLS** itself to feel patriotic, you know what I mean? We are a nation that deals in information, and we can handle it. Totalitarian and fascist regimes, can't. They "protect" their fragile, repressed countries from "information." That's not America.
So you disagree with Murtha. That's America too. We're all on the same side, but we're going to have differences of opinion. That's part of what makes us great. And speaking of being on the same side in terms of the real battle we are waging, what is up with thisregarding missing opportunities in this war??