Letters to the Editor
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Pennsylvania Spectacle
Democrats gloating over the Obama loss. Democrats chortling with glee about the imagined demise of a candidate who about half their party regards as an inspirational leader. Democrats happy with the (likely temporary) misfortune of a man who almost all Democrats were in love with at the last convention. Democrats are pleased to see an uppity black man take a beating.
Democrats, your party is sick. You are self-hating, self-defeating, politically suicidal naifs who suffer from a bizarre form of political bipolarism. On the one hand, you want inspirational and liberal leadership; on the other hand, you want dishonest but 'experienced' candidates. You would sell out your ideals for the deceptive pragmatism of 'who can best win in November.'
Come November, you will likely prove that your party is ineffectual, nothing more than a shadow of the Republican Party, without a place in American politics since your leaders are either too cowed to provide stalwart opposition, or because you suicidally debase them when they dare to be different. Your candidate, vilified by a good third of your party, will stumble to a narrow electoral loss while winning by a thin electoral margin.
Again: it doesn't matter who it is. Even if Obama manages to somehow circumvent the Clinton Machine (which half your party denies even exists) and win the nomination, weakened by this vicious party split, he will be forced by that very same coalition to veer rightward on some matters (like the war). Republicans will blast him with the usual dirt, and it will stick like glue - not because it's true, but because so many Clinton supporters (and the candidate herself) have already applied a good base-coat. You're doomed, your party is doomed, and probably the whole damn country is doomed (but I can't say we won't get what we deserve).
I gotta say one thing, though: it's entertaining! I had no idea the Democrats could come up with a more creative way to lose the Presidency than they did in 2000 and 2008. Boy, am I surprised!!!
So I would like to extend a special THANKS to all those rabid party animals who have roared at the gates and torn up the street with their blogs, comments, and other empty actions: you have provided this 20-year-plus Republican with a great show, one which his own tired and corrupt party is either incapable of mounting - or simply too smart to release for public consumption.
HUZZAH!