Criticisms by candidates towards each other are expected to increase, are we all going to freak out?

[annie1]

Someone on MSNBC just mentioned after IOWA ends criticisms btwn candidates tend to increase, and the niceties of IA will end. Are we all going to be able to handle it, or is everyone going to start calling the candidates (Hillary especially) Rovian?

[TwilightZone]

1. The fun is only beginning.

Once Iowa results are known, the "fun" will ramp up pretty quickly. The winner of Iowa will become the target du jour.

[annie1]

2. oh no! that means obama's going to be a target and people will really freak out. s--t, i won't...

be able to hang out. there is no way i can watch all the victimization act and the hatred that will fester for anyone who criticising the chosen one.

[TwilightZone]

3. The past week or two has been a pretty good preview of what's to come.

Particularly the past few days. The blinders are definitely on, and the claws are definitely out.

[jakem]

4. jeesus. turn down the whining a notch will ya?

[annie1]

7. hey, maybe i'm wrong, maybe that won't actually happen.

[DCKit]

5. I thought Rove left the WH to run AS Hillary.

Shows you what I know. C'mon, it's a joke.

No matter what happens in Iowa, I can't imagine the vitriol HERE could get much worse and, if it does, our population will decline until everybody sweetens back up or takes their lurker ass back to Freeperville.

I don't click on many of the candidate threads that look the least bit contentious, so I haven't seen much of the craziness, but it's out there. If anything, many people are a little too attached to and far too passionate about the cults of personality surrounding some of the candidates. In my opinion, that is a mistake.

Every Democratic candidate is head and shoulders better than any of the Republicans and we should be spending more time on the races for the House and Senate than we have. That is where our strength will come from, no matter who takes the WH. A strongly Democratic House and Senate can stop a Rethug pResident dead in their tracks or snap a DLC/Corporatist/AIPAC tool back into line to do the peoples business. Without the numbers and Democratic asses in the seats, we won't have that ability.

I also truly feel that, after 28 years, people are tired of the Republican trademarks of negative campaigning, sleaze, lies and name calling. These tactics will always be somewhat effective, but they will not have the punch in 2008 that they had in the past. We're basically just sick of feeling dirty by association. BUT, our candidates also have to learn to counter these same tactics with humor, derision and righteous (but calm) anger and logical (simple) argument.

Yeah, we'll probably hit a rough patch from tomorrow on, but, unless we totally screw up or allow yet another election to be stolen, this ones in the bag.

[Adelante]

6. The politics of personal destruction I can't abide

Anything else, I'm down with it.