GO HIGH

Democrats, in this current election cycle, should resist the tempting bait they've been offered in the form of the "president's" unending list of offenses--against the laws of our nation, against our national interest on the world stage, against common human decency--and instead focus on issues of urgent importance to voters: affordable health care for every American, a humane and comprehensive solution to the immigration crisis, a long view of the economy with a view to addressing the skewed distribution of wealth, equal opportunity in education and equal justice for all. These are traditional Democratic values.

Leave Republicans to stew in the morass they have created. It will only get worse. If Democrats deign to get down in that mud, they will succeed only in diminishing themselves in the eyes of voters. Michele Obama was right: When they go low, we go high.

We are justly outraged, but we can hold on to that justifiable outrage and still not be dragged down into the pit of moral turpitude that now infects the soul of virtually every Republican in Congress.

Be angry, yes. Be outraged. But let not the anger and the outrage define who we are. We have better fish to fry.

Voters will cast their ballots for our vision, not our self-righteous outrage.

So... with my apologies for the outrageous mix of metaphors, let's VOTE HARLEY ROUDA in November. Let's keep telling every friend, every neighbor to vote Harley Rouda too. For his values. That's our job, here in CA48.