{"id":962,"date":"2003-12-18T15:16:35","date_gmt":"2003-12-18T22:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/an-open-letter-to-all-of-the-democratic-candidates-for-president\/"},"modified":"2006-02-27T17:53:38","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T00:53:38","slug":"an-open-letter-to-all-of-the-democratic-candidates-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/an-open-letter-to-all-of-the-democratic-candidates-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to all of the Democratic Candidates for President"},"content":{"rendered":"

I respect your right to campaign and appreciate many of the points each of you has contributed. However, in 6 months, 8 of you will not be the nominee.<\/p>\n

My concern at the moment is how vicious the sparring has become.<\/b> Most of you are helping Karl Rove write his campaign. All he will have to do is play footage of one or all of you saying this or that candidate is unqualified, unworthy, unelectable. You will look like fools and make all the Democrats look like fools.<\/p>\n

As a group, we should be crafting an effective attack on George Bush — he is the one who must<\/i> lose in November, 2004.<\/b> Any word you say that does not contribute to defeating Bush is wasted breath. Any attack you make on another nominee undermines us all. Stop it. If you can’t sell yourself as yourself, you can’t win and we all lose. If you can’t unite the Democrats, you can’t win!<\/p>\n

Find a way to campaign that does not divide Democrats — we must be united. Find a way to campaign that does not alienate independents and those oh-so-few moderate Republicans. Find a way to campaign that does not make Bush & Rove’s job easier. If you can’t treat your fellow Democrats decently, there is no hope for this party.<\/b><\/p>\n

mjh<\/span>
\nMark Justice Hinton
\ndumpbush@mjhinton.com<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/blogs\/
\nhttp:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/dumpbush\/ <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I respect your right to campaign and appreciate many of the points each of you has contributed. However, in 6 months, 8 of you will not be the nominee. My concern at the moment is how vicious the sparring has become. Most of you are helping Karl Rove write his campaign. All he will have … Continue reading An Open Letter to all of the Democratic Candidates for President<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}