Attacking good people to run, to sacrifice so much of their personal lives to serve, is a big part of party building.
Consider, if you will, the current Gov. of CA. He was attracted to the GOP because the party maintained a hard anticommunist stand (after all, Arnold grew up knowing first hand of the oppression of the USSR). When it came time for him to run for office, his liberal connections through his wife Maria could have attracted him just as easily to the DNC.
I'm so very proud to be witness to the Reagan Revolution living on in the great state of CA.
Attacking Atracting good people to run, to sacrifice so much of their personal lives to serve, is a big part of party building.
LOL. Sometimes I wonder whether "attacking" ( I know you meant attracting) good people was FR's role. =:-)