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BamaRefugee

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1. Great post. We are IN A KNIFE FIGHT this time. Any hands we reach across the aisle are just going to
Mon May 18, 2020, 02:41 AM
May 2020

be chopped off by Republican machetes.
Biden will be attacked more viciously and with more outright lies and defamation than ANY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE EVER.
Clever memes, sternly worded letters from Democratic leaders, purity tests, gnashing of teeth and rending of garments, FORGET ABOUT IT, we have to fight tooth and nail and, I have to say it, JUST AS DIRTY AS THEY DO.
We can fix it AFTER WE WIN.

WHEN THEY GO LOW, and we go high, we actually wind up losing, against patently heinous and terrible people. We went high with Humphrey, we went high with McGovern, we went high with Mondale, Dukakis, Al Gore, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton,( and I'm proud to say I voted for every one of these people), we acted as ladies and gentlemen, our heads high and our principals even higher, and we got our butts kicked. And yes, I consider elections being stolen a butt kicking!
I can only hope and pray that this time we have some folks in leadership who dare to do some bare knuckle fighting. And some POWERFUL and memorable messaging! We HAVE to message the right way to get inside the heads of the most crucial voters in this election.

So much more to say but too tired, heading for bed.
God bless us all, in this, this is a fight to really and truly save America, we cannot lose it. And we're going to be fighting a real dictator who wants a wannabe dictator to stay in power, which makes it doubly hard.

Just please, no infighting, every ounce of our energy has to be focused on winning, not internal divisions, and not looking morally superior as we cross the finish line in second place.

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Great post. We are IN A KNIFE FIGHT this time. Any hands we reach across the aisle are just going to BamaRefugee May 2020 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author rampartc May 2020 #2
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