Reply #127: You do have to talk about real people it's absolutely true

[youngred]

but why does the poster have to engage in a smear campaign against a candidate EVERYONE knows she doesn't like that only serves to be divisive to the community. Now is a time to rally around and move the party in a new direction and slamming someone who is fairly liberal, as not enough (while holding a self-proclaimed moderate up as a paragon of liberal virtue) is not helpful to that goal.

I am far from worn out, I'm ready to fight the good fight, but at this point I don't see how Clark Dean or Kerry have anything we need to fight over since none is running for the same job currently. Why compare and fight over them? To me THIS is the time we need to fight about ideas and not people. We need to decide our direction before we can find people to advance our banner. Fighting amongst ourselves when we should be unified in fighting Bush (and debating the merits of different ideas behind the scenes) is what we need to be doing now. There will be plenty of time in one year for the mid-terms and three for the Presidential race to begin looking at different people. But splitting ourselves now is not the time nor place