mole said on attacking primary candidates:

"but to attack to a degree that will create lasting animosity and interfere with later cooperation is not really acceptable."

I agree. Unfortunately this site and DG have all too often become sites where you see a lot of unnecessary Hillary bashing. What was the point of Bouldin posting that youtube clip of Hillary as Big Brother from '1984'? To show that you'd have to be mindless zombies to support her? That is something the REPUBLICANS should be expected to post, not democrats. In fact I would bet that the person who made that video probably IS a republican. Hillary is the odds-on to be the Democratic nominee for President. There are valid reasons for not supporting her, but you don't have to insult the many fine progressive/liberal democrats who do support her with stuff like that. What is going to happen is that if she's the presumptive nominee by next spring, and we're all taking to defend her, republicans are going to point to sites like this and all those old posts, "go see what democrats REALLY feel about Hillary" The old hillary-bashing posts here and at DG, particularly those by Michael Bouldin (who still refuses to give a yes/no answer on whether he'd even support her next year if she's the nominee), will become a tool for the republicans.

Why can't we keep debate on our democratic primary candidates civil and not continually put up abrasive videos and pictures of hillary or any of the other candidates. I have attacked Edwards on here on occasion because I have some reservations about him, and like the other candidates better, but I am not surfing the web looking for the nastiest video clips or graphics on him that I can find to post on a site that is supposed to be liberal/progressive and supportive of the Democratic party and its candidates? I don't dislike him that much. In fact I like him. I'd support him. Just as I'd support Hillary or Obama or any of the democratic candidates if they were the nominees. So I have no desire to bash their character.

Do you want this site, middle of next year, to become useless as a conduit for pushing the democratic ticket, because it has two years of posts including by one of the moderators relentlessly bashing the character and electability of the party's nominee? I say lets not take the chance.