And now the attacks really begin

[yesthattom]

After losing both debates, Bush/Cheney are left with not much else to do but start really mean attacks. Kerry is going to need $ to pay for counter-adverts. I’ve set up one of those “donate to Kerry/Edwards” web sites through the Volunteer.kerryedwards.com page and I encourage people to donate:
http://volunteer.johnkerry.com/mysite/?view=guest&ref=626347

Comments

[polydad.livejournal.com]

If a cause is dependent on me donating money to it, it's a long-lost cause. Time I can donate; effort I can donate. I can't donate what I don't have, and the NJ Democratic Committee hasn't returned my phone calls yet.

How to deal with really mean attacks? Depends what you have to defend *with*. I've at this point read Mr. Kerry's positions, and I think he would be not evil as president, which is a vast improvement over what we currently have. That doesn't make it *good*, and it tempers the response he can provide to the mean attacks. He can't reasonably pretend to be Great, because he isn't. He's not even nearly as good as he would have been 25 years ago, when he still had a spine.

JohnK still has remnants of character that the Beltway hasn't scrubbed out of him yet. They're faint, but they're still there. Perhaps if enough of us sucked his cock or something he might grow back to it; I don't know. Any thoughts on how to cause him to grow or recover greatness I would be happy to receive and act upon. As near as I can tell, his high point was when he threw his medals away. How can we get that moment back, and integrate its display of integrity with his honorable services before and after that event? How can we avoid, soft-pedal, or ameliorate the spineless, go-along-to-get-along attitudes he's had to develop in the Senate?

The Senate, and the House too for that matter, are bad training-grounds for chief executives. The skill sets are too different. A chief has to lead, a senator has to avoid offending people. The senatorial skill-set is an excellent *addition* on top of a good CEO mindset, but if the senatorial skills take precedence, you end up with a weak leader. Not what we need right now.

Responding to the meanness by having his compatriots -- us -- get mean back would be a typical way of doing things. I have some doubts about this strategy; it's sort of like having a mud-fight with a herd of pigs. They may not throw as well as we do, but they also don't have anything to lose by getting covered with mud. The end result is a lot of brown stuff, which is about what we have right now anyway, if smellier.

Any further thoughts or suggestions?

best,

Joel