Over at Eschaton, Lambert states the Obvious:
This year, of all years, the Democrats cannot afford to form their usual circular firing squad. They should compete on positive core values and on dragging Bush and his gang screaming to the duck pit.
Reagan’s 11th commandment was: “Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican.” It worked pretty well, didn’t it? The Dems should learn from it.
Robust discourse is all well and good, but as I recall, it was Bradley who tagged Gore first with the — false! — liar meme that clung to Gore all through election 2000, when the SCLM picked up on it.
As Benjamin Franklin once said: “Gentleman! We must all hang together, or most assuredly we will all hang separately.”