If the Democrats really want to get really brutal at the DNC-convention, this is how you do it:

[DetlefK]

Use the RNC talking-points as a hook and then get out rebuttal after rebuttal.



"We're all gonna die!"
- Talk about the controversial pull-out from Iraq that GWB negotiated, Osama Bin Laden dead, ISIS getting bombed...

"Benghazi!"
- Attack the Republicans for cutting security for embassies. Attack them for demanding 8 investigations into 1 incident and no investigations for the 13(?) embassy-attacks during GWBs administration.

"Unemployment! Economy! Obamacare!"
- Numbers.
Then some more numbers.
And then some more numbers.
And then shove numbers down their throats until they puke.

"War on Cops! Ferguson-effect!"
1. Numbers.
2. Attack the NRA for spreading the talking-point that the purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to attack the government.

Merrick Garland, Zika, mass-shootings...

And for the second day, after the kick-off, "The Donald".
- Everything. Bring out everything you have. Every tiny bit of information that makes The Donald look bad, no matter how old and how well-known and how worn-out.



Just imagine, a speaker announcing "Here is a list of 200 reasons why Donald Trump is unfit to be President."

And then, for the next 5 hours, SOMEBODY IS ACTUALLY READING OUT A FUCKING LIST OF 200 FUCKING REASONS WHY DONALD TRUMP IS UNFIT TO BE PRESIDENT, COMPLETE WITH SOURCES AND EVERYTHING.

"... reason 118, reason 119, reason 120..."
"I know what you are thinking: Reason 162 sounds like reason 53 or reason 17, but bear with me for a moment."

For. 5. Fucking. Hours.

THAT is how you destroy somebody's reputation.

Then it's out of the way and the Democrats are free to ignore him for the rest of the convention and can focus on politics.
(Attacking Trump without talking about Trump? Super-double-ultra-brutal!!!)

[Mike Nelson]

1. Agree with the first part...

...but we don't need to go all-out negative on The Donald. The Republicans' hate-fest is a turn-off for undecided voters. We should do the opposite.

[DetlefK]

2. That's why the DNC should handle all the negative in one focused sitting and then move to positive.

"Here's 200 reasons. Done. Now, in other news..."

Meanwhile, day 1 of the RNC was panic and terror and day 2 was "burn the witch".
All. Day. Long.

Of course that was a turn-off.

But if you can focus all the negativity into one punch... and then balance that by focusing on positive issues for the rest of the time...

[Mike Nelson]

3. That would be okay.

...they will likely do something along those lines.