Reply #42: Perhaps, but we're *supposed* to be the good guys

[lastliberalintexas]

I have worked countless campaigns, both paid and volunteer positions, locally and in DC. I know what it feels like to be on the receiving end of a dirty campaign, and what kind of person it takes to run such a campaign. Thankfully, I've never worked for a candidate who ran a smear campaign, and the party didn't join in to run one either since my people have coincidentally been unchallenged in the primaries. The people who pull this kind of crap are the ones who should be kicked out of politics for good, kind of like athletes are banned from sports for doping. Their only mission is to win, principles be damned, and they don't care what kind of scars they leave behind following the campaign. They don't really always care about the Dem party, as their allegiance usually only stays with us so long as the money is flowing to them from the campaigns. And they'e certainly not the ones who should be picking our candidates, by whatever means necessary.

You sound like you dislike Hackett, and you're of course entitled to whatever opinion you may have of these 2 men. But please don't try to disguise that antipathy as arguments that this is simply politics as usual.