Daily Kos: "I'm So Tired of This I Could Eat Sawdust and Poop Two by Fours"

Me too :) Edwards supporters and the DUers who love them should enjoy this diary:

I don't care who the candidate is--if there's a continuous drumbeat of negative bullshit, it makes me examine the insulted candidate with a more favorably disposed eye.

It's the "He who protests too much" effect at work.

I'm holding off on any endorsement because I still hope Gore goes for it, but I find the 'dissing' of fellow Democrats really lame. It's horrible enough when Faux does it, worse still when I see it here.

I'd rather hear why a candidate is good, not why others are bad, frankly. I always wonder what the deal is, when people with a big huge banner for Candidate X run around tearing down Candidate Y?

Because it's just so...CHEESY. And it's really ineffective. I get the impression sometimes that it's designed not just to trash a candidate but to supress the vote overall; to bring out that "There's No Difference Between the Candidates" bullshit theme--the only thing is, the bozos doing it just aren't deft at all. Consequently, it makes me all the more determined to head to the polls and drive a hundred or so of my closest friends to the polls as well!

also make the candidate purportedly supported look bad also, like THEY might be behind the attacks.

Rovian nonsense, IMHO.

If you can't say something nice about someone, don't say anything at all. If you have specific facts to lay out, fine. Then let people decide what to make of them. But the attack politics are bad news and just make the attacker look EXTREMELY REPUBLICAN.

It does seem like a clumsy smear attempt, these "advocacy by dissing" efforts. It's just so hamhanded and stupid though, it only serves to irritate. It does make me pay closer attention to the candidate being insulted. But then, I'm a contrarian sometimes...!

It's us against the MSM, and I think we're winning :toast:

I loved this part:

"The press loves to ignore John Edwards or worse, try to paint him in a bad light. They don't like him, they don't understand him, they fear what they don't understand and so when they do cover his campaign, its negative. Does this abuse of their purported mission, to be unbiased, not bug the living jeebus out of everyone here? I'm proud to support a good and decent man, a brilliant, hard-working, kind individual who cares about others and about his country. I'll do everything I can to help him become our next president, the M$M be damned."

They really do fear him....hummm, wonder why? Perhaps he will bring transparency back to the WH? Or, he'll be doing such great things, they won't be taking any glee over what has been referred as the living hell we have been in for the last six years? Fear and scandal sell, decency, integrity and honor do not. I can't wait until he's sworn in..:)

:bounce: :hi:

and somethings Edwards needs to do to avoid. The ending says that it has not cut into his numbers and democrats are not listening to it.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200705120002

I hope you have a chance to read the link :hi: