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Subject: Hang in there, Kid
Dear Bart -
I've been reading your site since about mid-way
through the 2000 election cycle,
and think I have a pretty good idea of your values
and desires and so forth.
In 2000, you were incredibly aggressive in your
criticism of the Gore campaign,
for their failure to fight back against the Republican
smear campaign. Invented the Internet;
wears brown suits to appear to be an environmentalist;
flip-flopper; etc. Every time the
Buch campaign put up an ad, you offered solid
response tactics.
Many of your most loyal readers complained that
you weren't supporting the Democratic Candidate.
They said you should shut up and throw your weight
behind Gore and help cheerlead.
You stuck to your guns and kept calling it as
you saw it.
The Gore campaign didn't take any of the actions
you recommended.
Gore won the election, but "lost" Florida and chickened out of the vote-count war that followed.
You asked: "How did I get in this party of surrender monkeys?"
In 2004, you were incredibly aggressive in your
criticism of the Kerry campaign, for their failure
to fight back against the Republican smear campaign.
Ivy-league elite; phoney patriot; lies about
his military service; etc. Every time the
Buch campaign put up an ad, you offered solid response tactics.
Many of your most loyal readers complained that
you weren't supporting the Democratic Candidate.
They said you should shut up and throw your weight
behind Kerry and help cheerlead.
You stuck to your guns and kept calling it as
you saw it.
The Kerry campaign didn't take any of the actions
you recommended.
Kerry won the election, but "lost" Ohio and chickened out of the vote-count war that followed.
You asked: "How did I get in this party of surrender monkeys?"
In 2008, you are being incredibly aggressive in
your criticism of the Obama campaign,
for their failure to fight back against the Republican
smear campaign. Unqualified; black;
pedophile; etc. Every time the McCain campaign
put up an ad, you're offering solid response tactics.
Many of your most loyal readers are complaining
that you aren't supporting the Democratic Candidate.
They say you should shut up and throw your weight
behind Obama and help cheerlead.
Stick to your guns and keep calling it as you
see it.
The Obama campaign may or may not take any of
the actions you recommend.
Obama may win the election, but "lose" <name
of key battleground state here>
and chicken out of the vote-count war that follows.
You'll ask, again: "How did I get in this party
of surrender monkeys?"
I wish with all my heart that the Obama campaign
wakes up, and that you don't have to live
through the "trifecta" of watching the party
kill itself off, day by day, inch by inch.
To EVERY reader of this site:
Trust Bart. Believe that watching this happen
again and again and again makes him feel sicker
than ANY of you will ever know. He's been
100% right EVERY SINGLE TIME. And look at
what it gets him. His readers bitch and
moan that he's not a team player. His monkey opponents
heap ridicule on him. His subscribers abandon
him in favor of the "mainstream" "liberal" blogs,
like Kos and HuffPo and Salon, where they can
feel all warm and safe and fuzzy while watching
their annointed candidates crash and burn.
Believe that he will NEVER LIE TO YOU. Not
to make you feel good. Not to "get along".
Not to "support party unity." Not to avoid
"being such an asshole." Not to get YOU to change your minds.
Believe that he WANTS Obama to be the next President.
Believe that every single post he puts up comes
from his deepest belief that if the Obama campaign
repeats the same mistakes Gore made, and the
same mistakes Kerry made, and the same mistakes
Obama has made so far, the sainted Barack will
crash and burn on the same rocks as his predecessors.
Stop bitching about Bart's "negativity."
Stop accusing him of "not getting it."
Stop losing your faith in his vision and his
passion and his plain common sense.
It's too much to ask you people to takle what
Bart says and use it to write letters to the Obama campaign,
offering his advice as your own. It's too
much to ask you people to take ownership in the SUCCESS of
the Obama campaign, instead of putting your blind
trust in the same planners and strategists who lost the
2000 and 2004 elections.
So I won't ask you people to do that.
But I will ask you people to be willing to listen
to valid criticisms of a campaign strategy that
has been demonstrated TWICE as being a failure.
Bottom line: Trust Bart. If you feel
you can't; if you genuinely think that Bart's posts will
actively HURT the Obama campaign; then go away.
Go over to Kos or Salon or HuffPo.
Go drink the koolaid that says Obama can't lose
and that the election is in the bag.
I'm staying here. I'm too broke to contribute
anything but this letter of support, but I'm staying here.
I don't agree with everything Bart says (I'm
more partial to playing K-7 offsuit from the small blind than he is),
but I'm staying here.
nic from San Francisco
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