Seems like some folks are uncomfortable with effective campaigning. We had many discussions in recent years about whether to fight conservative fire with fire, whether to find phrases and buzzwords to counter GOP propaganda and framing. We argued back and forth about truth vs. emotion, virtue vs. success.

I felt all along that it was possible to politic with truth, but use the right framing and delivery,  to use terms that resonated well but were also true, to campaign with integrity while actually selling the product. I felt we did not have to choose between Ralph Nader's hectoring and John Edwards' haircut. I felt it was simply a technique issue, that the right candidate could do it with honor, and also win against the failure of conservative programs.

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Please look carefully at the screen when trying to comment on certain posts. At least one poster is scamming you, avoiding comments, but mainly taking advantage of the re-locating of the "recommend" link, when s/he un-checks the "feedback" boxes.

Is there another blog where trolls can post without receiving comments? Said poster here, who I would not have called a troll before, has been using this choice.

Some things work just fine if we all do them, like exercise, voting for somebody for president, reading a book. Some don't, like many of the basic conservative principles. Entrepreneurship? Sure, let's have a million different types of computer, or telephone systems, or automobiles. It's a prescription for medieval artisan economics. Not that local economies are a terrible thing, but it tends to prevent what we think of as wealth. That comes from a large number of people joining together. Conservatives have no desire for everyone to follow their principles, such as utterly de-regulated business. That would let in too many competitors. And forget trying to get more voters registered.

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