Some advice...

for the RNC speech-makers last night.

If you don't have something nice to say, you shouldn't say anything at all.

Attacking your adversaries is not a platform. It's just a stick.

If 'your people' have been in charge most recently, it's probably a bad idea to complain about how bad 'their people' have made it.

If your adversaries are offering you an olive-branch, take it. Otherwise, you are just being petulant and childish.

We have BIGGER PROBLEMS. Try to stay focused on the issues that government can actually do something about---foreign policy, the economy, energy policy, large-scale environmental issues. If we don't get those in hand, none of the rest of this stuff matters.