Letters to the Editor
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Not Yet
As much as I want Obama to win, the author has not met the people in my state.
Republicans still rule middle America. And they still play dirty. There is plenty of work to do. Yes we can, but we must work for it.
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I love it!
I hope we aren't jinxing this thing by gloating too early, but I can't imagine even a close race. It's like Bob Dole in '96. . . . take some crusty old senator that hasn't had a new idea in 30 years and run him against "the future". I think this one should forfeit.
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yeah, you forgot to mention
the crooked refs - they wear black and white - and they're armed with whistles that hurt everybody's ears - except the people who want Team McLame to win.
Their whistles blow loud, wrong calls - racism, hatred, innuendo, outright lies...
We must kill the refs.
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Forfeit
Gloating becomes no one.
Liberals telling themselves the 2008 election is "in the bag" is ramping up to "Dewey Beats Truman" headlines in November.
Remember this:
Republicans have an automatic Electoral College advantage. They could nominate a head of cabbage and still count on 200 votes in the Electoral College.
republicans control the media: Either directly at FoxNews or indirectly at all the "Mainstream Media Outlets". Watch for Chris Matthews to start talking about "having a beer with" John McCain and you will know the fix is in.
When in doubt, all ties go to Republicans. Any electoral dispute that winds up in court will be decided in Republicans favor 5/4. No matter what.
The Republicans will have more money to spend. I know that the headlines talk about Obama vs. McCain. But don't forget that the Republican Party has more money, and will collect much more. Add to that the White House has unlimited spending power and will spend whatever it takes to get "the message" out. The Federal Elections Commission can say whatever it wants, but once John McCain is inaugurated, we all know what that is worth.
The Republican slime machine has not even begun to work. When it ramps up, with an echo chamber in every media outlet, the big debate in November will be: Should Barak Obama be imprisoned in Guantanamo? Or just banished back to his Muslim school in Indonesia?
And Conservatives have not even begun to work the race issue yet (not directly, of course, but there will be sufficient surrogates that anyone who wishes to use race as a reason to not vote for Barak Obama will have plenty of euphemisms to provide cover.
The election of Barak Obama is very much in doubt. And telling ourselves otherwise is just kidding ourselves.
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It's this kind of attitude...
...that won the election for Kerry. Go team.
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Gary forgets two potent players
I love Gary's analysis! But he
forgets two potent players on the GOP side. There's Race Baiter, whose trash-talking gets the home team cheering, and Hate, who has no last name and needs none. Fresh from successful engagements in Sarajevo and Rwanda, Hate has a lethally effective three-point shot, fouls habitually, and is nearly impossible to guard.
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Oh no.
Instant karma's gonna get us.
Worse: The Democratic party curse lies squarely in running political races that are ours to lose and promptly doing so, aided by clever but pompous pencil hacks who chew the eraser and later have nothing to say when the levee breaks.
Go cover the Red Sox or Tiger Woods, please. The enormous stakes here beg exclusion of overconfident and sadly malicious word hoards such as yours.
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Ambitious effort
I kept waiting for Kamiya's satirical analogy to fall down but he managed to keep it going all the way to the end. Very funny!
And don't worry about being jinxed. The Democrats have a special deal with a Gypsy fortune-teller this year. They're immune to all jinxes, curses, doom, and portents of evil fate, on one condition — they have to work hard to win.
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You Don't Pull the Team and You Don't Let Them off Til the Buzzer
It's funny, I'll give you that. But not in serious competition.
I've argued this analogy already a number of times here, and it was never more apropos than now, but the self-jinxing superstition aside, plus the fact it would avoid us having to actually work to win this and win it big (yes, us, as there are plenty of Republcans like me, who can't wait to see the corpse slit from stem to stern and bled of all it's poisons once and for all), it is necessary to learning, whether in Little League ball or Big Time Politics, to go the distance and win or lose.
In this case the loss, as horrendous as I hope and fully expect it to be, is the only way the once great (when was that again?) Republican Party can hope to begin the process of rebirth. There's a lot of horrible Karma to be endured before this carcass can hope to be reanimated, and going through the ghastly Theater of Blood as described by Kamiya in jest is the only way it's ever going to have a prayer of being resuscistated. Besides, one never, never starts CPR while there is still a pulse.
And one never, never pulls the team off the court (or diamond, whatever) til the clock has officially run out.
Just ask Hillary Clinton. If she'll speak to you.
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it's over
Bravo!!
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?? Declare a Forfeit ??
Yep, we've got our work cut out for us. But we have the issues of the economy, Iraq war,New Orleans,sub-prime mess, $4/gallon gas and the general mess of the government services under a Republican adminstration.
McCain will be engaged. Obama will not take the bitch slapping Kerry and Gore did. He will slap back and he will not be lowered for fighting back. He will show the world what bullies the Republicans are.
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"...insufferably lame jokes..."
I hope Kamiya didn't get paid for this dreck.
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An intriguing theory....
I read an article on HuffPost today which was somewhat confirmed by President Bush's comments about his brother Jeb..in other words, WHAT IF...
The Republicans don't confirm McCain as the nominee at the convention, and instead draft, say, a Jeb Bush-Condoleeza Rice ticket.
By that time everyone will be weary of both McCain and Obama and the "new" "fresh" Republican ticket will own the news cycle and the hearts, minds and imaginations of journalists and therefore the eyes of the nation from that moment until the election...while avoiding the long term ups and downs and scrutiny and back and forth that we've become so tired of...
Nothing really obligates the Repubs to nominate McCain....and they're used to having him carry water for them and then dumping him by the side of the road.