A plea for a "No" vote on the proposed new GD rules

GD is the crucible of DU.

In a crucible, a mixture of substances is brought to a melt. In the crucible the bullshit gets burned away. Occasionally the slag will rise to the top and need to be skimmed off, but when it's all said and done, what's left in the crucible becomes something very pure.

I know the crucible has been boiling over regularly lately and a lot of people don't like that, but I plead with you, DO NOT TURN DOWN THE HEAT!!!

Yes, the candidate bashing gets viscious. Yes, it's painful, but in the end we will all be armed no matter who ends up being the nominee. We'll will have heard it all. There will be no "surprises" sprung by the Repukes because we will have arrived at the pure substance. We will know how to answer all the bullshit because the bullshit will get burned off here in our crucible.

If you turn things down to a slow simmer, I guarantee the Repukes will spring surprise attacks on our nominee and we will be blindsided.

Let's turn the heat UP rather than down. Vote down these rules and let our crucible burn away the bullshit!

we in effect have vetted.

Let the GOP hire their own focus groups.

He has a thread lining out the new rules and the fact that there will be a vote.

This is a thread explaining why I think everybody should vote against those rule proposals.

Another post like this was locked earlier

I'll consider the vote rigged.

Elections have multiple posts supporting multiple positions all over DU.

A DU election should have the same consideration or this is not really "Democratic".

Please post your opinions about the proposed rules in Skinner's thread which is provided for that purpose.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=434070

Thank you
AnnabelLee
DU Moderator

though I think its entirely appropriate to bring up these discussion points separately

maybe I'm missing something but I thought I'd read them carefully.