Unwilling to Throw Punches

A friend's take on my lament in a recent email about how Ravitch often kicks our butts:

 

The reason we get our butts kicked by a 73-year-old woman is that she does nothing but negative campaigning (look at her book – 100% listing the problems, 0% listing solutions), and reformers are almost universally unwilling to throw any punches.  Nobody ever won a tough campaign without significant negative campaigning.

 

Hear, hear!