Your thoughts on - CANDIDATE BASHING!

[Gringo]

Poll question: Your thoughts on - CANDIDATE BASHING!

Dean, being the contender, seems to get more of it than anybody else, but everybody's gotten some. What do you think?

[JohnKleeb]

1. ok

I really like my leftist nominee, Kucinich. If rivals do something admirable I will applaud it and if they dont I will be crticial. I dont like the DLC really, and would like the party to take a populist approach.

[DemBones DemBones]

5. Criticizing is not bashing, though. Criticism is given without using

insulting language. Criticism is "Lieberman is too hawkish." Bashing is "Liberman is an idiot."

We need criticism and discussion of issues and candidate's positions.

We don't need bashing.

(Not directed at you, John! I know you know the difference but I just wanted to add on to what you'd already said.)

[Gringo]

6. Also, spewing the same "criticism" over and over

in endlessly replicating threads is "bashing". Even if the criticism has a grain of thruth, it is bashing if it's already been done to death, but you just keep on posting the same stuff over and over. The stuff about Dean/Dean supporters is always the exact same criticism! How many times do we have to see this guy compared to McGovern ?

[oasis]

2. Candidates that trash Dems using GOP talking points are fair game.

[ibegurpard]

3. I voted for the "we'll all get behind" option with reservations

namely Lieberman.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. I love bashing Republican candidates

but that's about it.