( - promoted by Jay Stevens)
I get the feeling that the situation in the Dem primary is getting a bit out of hand here in the blogosphere.
We're all Democrats, and we agree on 95% of our policy ideas. Dennis McDonald is a good Democrat. Tyler Gernant is a good Democrat. Melinda Gopher is a good Democrat. Sam Rankin... well, okay, forget it, probably.
But what I'm trying to say is that, well, our main focus should be on beating Rehberg. And if there is some friendly competition about who should be selected to do that, all the better.
But lately we're busy sniping at each other in blog comments here and over at 4&20 blackbirds and now DailyKos. I don't like that, even though I admit that I participated in it.
Last summer, when I was a full-time intern for a month with Tyler's campaign, I talked to Dennis at Sen. Baucus' Sieben Ranch fundraiser for Jon Tester. And even though I was wearing a Tyler sticker, he was 100% friendly and told me that 'in the end, all that matters is that we're Democrats. It's all about beating Rehberg.'
And I'm sure that Tyler agrees with that.
So let's just dial the rhetoric down a little bit and pledge to get behind the primary winner on Tuesday, whoever that will be.
That doesn't mean that we can't blog about or advocate for our favorites, but I think that Pres. Reagan had one good idea with his 11th commandment-- 'Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican'.
It's certainly more productive than having endless fights on the metrics that should be used to compare fundraising records.
Can we just do that? What do you think? |
