The swiftboat like smear machine against Glenn Greenwald goes into high gear. Who's next?

[JackRiddler]

104. It may be your judgement that primaries always damage the winner...

but it is not true. Certainly on the presidential level, almost every new incumbent arrived through a competitive primary, proving at the least they must not have been "damaged" by it to the point where they could not win a general election. Even more opposite to your judgement on this is that the most recent presidential primary fight strengthened the eventual nominee's prospects in November, contrary to what pundits were bemoaning at the time, and again, contrary to this tired wisdom that internal dissent is always bad for a party. Please, try an empirical approach.

However, more fundamental here is that you have confused right and wrong with what you think is good or bad for "the President's electoral prospects." You seem unwilling to imagine any other acceptable standard for making decisions, and thus the president can do no wrong and no criticism can be accepted; in the end, all criticism of the administration is characterized as crypto-Republican.