Reply #18: Try at least to GET my point before trying to refute it. [View All]

Look around you on this forum. Right here, in discussions among democrats, the frame for discussions about backing Obama now increasingly has become the very true argumen t that we can't afford to let the Republicans win. If you strip away the details and just look at the foundation of that argument, it is an appeal to fear, fear of what will happen if Obama loses. That is the simple truth.

It is also, in my opinion, true that we do have much to fear if the Republicans regain the White House and that America would be much better served by a second Obama Administration than by any the Republicans will offer up.

The messaging to appeal to activists has shifted significantly since 2008. I am hearing very little in public about the imperitive of retaking the House of Representatives from the Republicans in 2012 so that the obstructionists will cleared off the path of the positive Democratic agenda for America.