Why I'm running against Debbie Wasserman-Schultz

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56. Dear Tim, why I think your campaign is doomed

It's not any of the many things you cited that justifiably bother you about Debbie Wasserman Schultz, or the huge amount of $$$ that will inevitably flow her way.

It's your failure to articulate a single thing that you stand for or would work to achieve in Congress. All I read was a long list of the things you're pissed off about. It's fine to be pissed off, but I can be pissed off by myself, I don't need you to be pissed off for me. Also, I have enough things to be pissed off about without poring over your list to see whether the things I'm pissed off about are included or whether you are sufficiently pissed off about the things I am pissed off about. (Turns out you're not, but that's OK because people can be pissed off about different things.)

But the basic problem is this: if you were somehow elected, I have no idea what you'd do once you were in Congress except insofar as it reflects Debbie Wasserman Schultz. You need to tell people that you have an agenda of your own. Now, I'm sure you have one and even that you'd be good at advancing it, because I took time to look you up and download some of your law review articles. But I'm pretty sure that 'people who read law review articles for pleasure' is not a large enough demographic to get you elected, or even close to it.

As they say, you only get one chance to make a first impression. And the first impression I got was someone with an obsessive dislike of an incumbent politician and to a lesser extent of big business. Unfortunately, the world is awash in angry people who are lining up to tell me how angry they are, and I don't have time to be angry about all the things people want me to angry about, although the things that make me angry certainly do influence my political decision-making. Tell me something good - about what you've achieved, what you'd do to improve your district, or what sort of legislation you'd introduce.

The vast majority of people go to the polls to vote for someone, not against someone else. Tell me what you are for.