I've got an idea for you:

Instead of getting up on your horse whenever a substantial minority of your audience disagrees with you, and inviting them to hit the fucking door, how about encouraging them to constructive action?

I know.  You wanted it over tonight.  I did too.

But we're still gonna win.

This is what I believe. I will expound on these topics in blogs to come, for those who are interested:

I have a point with this diary, which I intend to make more clear in subsequent diaries, as we proceed.

Like most here, I was appalled by the ABC debate.  I was (and am) also appalled at ABC's continuing refusal to acknowledge the poor job they did.  They went a step even further today--I'm sure most of you didn't watch "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" this week, but if you had, you'd have seen the usual talking heads bashing us for daring to complain about the debate--at one point, Sam Donaldson told us to "grow up" and said we had a sense of "entitlement".  Or maybe the latter was Cokie Roberts--they all kind of run together in one big, nonsensical mass in my brain.

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