[discostu]

My point, as I already said, and you should have read, but you can’t be bothered, was to be ADULTS. Attack her like any other politician: positions and history. There’s no need for childish antics like the left pulled on Palin. It will accomplish nothing. She’s a tax and spend anti-military pro-socialized medicine leftist. You can’t beat her on THAT, you don’t deserve to win. If you must go to insults, which you did again, you are just plain not equipped to deal.

[chimera]

In a perfect world. where the left plays by the rules we are asked to follow, you'd be correct. I'm guessing the Founders would agree with much of what you're saying (although some of them got mean and nasty, for their time), believing that an enlightened electorate would heed such advice. But the left doesn't play by the rules. We play the gentlemen/women, making sane, reasoned, logical, polite arguments, appealing to intellect and fairness. For our trouble, the leftists kick us in the nuts. And while we're rolling around on the ground in agony, trying to catch our breath, we can't speak sanely against chants, riots, and assault. Then the left plays the race card and freebies from da gummint, and then no one wants to listen.

What to do? I've been involved in politics, in one way or another, since the 1960 elections. I can confidently say that things have gone totally off the rails here. Reasoned, rational debate no longer seems to be operative. As loathe as I am to say it, we should at least defend ourselves and our candidates against the rising tide of leftist mob rule. If that involves some measure of harsh rhetoric (based in truth) or even physicality, well, I don't know what choice we have, given the odds against us.