after choosing dubya, watching him destroy the republican appeal, the gop is lucky to have a candidate at all. the fact is, he went in as a big loser, and if he comes out a big loser no one should show surprise.

mccain would be a hero, if he showed any grace at all. but he didn't- he showed he was not in the race out of any principle, but rather because he really, really wanted to be president. if he had any self respect he wouldn't have run. if he had any respect for the electorate, he would have said "the gop has betrayed america, vote democratic".

the people that ran his campaign, for profit or principle, are amoral hyenas. they aren't losers, because they work for the rich and will get paid, one way or another. if they have lost this election, they are ready for the next one or the next. they don't lose anymore than anthrax loses, victory is intermittent but certain. and each interlude in power corrodes the nation further.

if you keep handing the keys of the nation to one 'king', you will keep getting commodus or nero or caligula, and each will file off a bit more of the nation's wealth and freedom.

give some thought to establishing democracy, if it's not already too late.

it's his campaign, not yours, and his judgment prevails. if he gets in, you will knuckle yer forelock or curtsy,and do what he says. he certainly won't get in if the yokels stay home, so saber-rattling is necessary to his primary goal. his primary goal is not good management of the nation, it's getting elected.

choosing a grab-bag of policies, sight unseen, by electing a president, is a profoundly stupid way to run a country. if, that is, your goal is long term survival.

but america is no longer the best educated nation, nor even close. half think the bible is all you need to know. dubya got in by agreeing with them. until the people who voted for dubya die out, and only if their children get an education, the king of america can be elected by the idiot vote.

so it's no use saying mccain doesn't have a clue. he's doing better than any republican should do, with notably unfriendly conditions. the people who don't have a clue, are the ones who vote for politicians instead of referenda. they are playing russian roulette with the nation's head for a target.

you know, actually do something to wrest control of the nation from the beltway bandits. or are you just going to sit there, crying "the sky is falling!" until government goons break down your door at 3am?

fascists don't normally issue explicit warnings, but there are plenty of harbingers flying around: nsa looking at phone calls, army to control crowds, secret prisons, habeas corpus obsolete, when will you realize that without democracy you will have dictatorship? or are you gonna wait for them to take your neighbor? that is usually too late.

sorry to begin with some fundamental political science, but america has plutocrats. the important aspect of the word is, a class distinguished by great wealth also has great power in politics. currently they fund the republican party. but they aren't republicans, they are rich. if the gop folds up out of some combination of incompetence and ideology, the plutocrats will find another party, or simply make one.

so mr kamiya's glee at the current failure of the party of the rich is misplaced. the republicans will be back, or they'll be replaced. america will continue to be managed by the plutocrat party, whatever it's name, for the benefit of plutocrats.

people like mr kamiya might grow up and say "let's stop the musical chairs and make america a democracy." but he's not smart enough to figure that out, a near universal feature of american politics. even the 'liberals' seem to think the constitution is written on stone tablets.

in any event, the gop and it's twin brother, the dems, are not ships, they are degenerative diseases. while they rule, america will continue to slide into third world status.

everyone knew the repubs were going to take a thrashing, apres dubya and his comprehensive failures. mccain has done as well as any republican could- and looked briefly competitive when sarah jumped on stage.

it's not an awful campaign, it's an awful party with a thin coat of fresh paint.

not that there's anything wrong with that- bound feet and elongated necks are very pretty. women were much the better for being controlled and shaped by men.

however, the genie is out of the bottle. in future there will be group 'marriages', possibly of mixed sex, or simple contract child raising by professionals of children of people too busy or uninterested in child-minding. science will make 'one man, one women' laughably obsolete.

sex will be a pastime, where it is not supplanted by a session with electric stimulation of the pleasure center of the brain, so much more hygenic.

'adultery' will need to be explained to students of history. no one else will be interested in such quaint ideas.

why the keys to the nation's car are handed over to individuals who prove to be callous murderers, arrogant fools, or merely incompetent in attaining party goals?

300 million people at the mercy of fools, charlatans and psychotics. because in 1789, the men of property were having no democracy, thank you.

democracy was impossible in 1789, the slave-owners were frightened of dispossession, perhaps rightly. but why not now?

are you all insane? you are running a nation of 300 million people like it was american idol.

is there no one in the land that worries about nutters with nuclear bombs? not those ragheads, the terrorists in the whitehouse.

can anyone in the usa at least spell 'democracy?' or even easier words, like 'sanity', or 'survival'?