Let’s hold the election right now
Posted on October 9th, 2008
It’s only going to continue to go downhill. McCain’s going to get more distracted and muddled. Palin’s just going to get nastier and nastier.
From here to November, the McCain campaign’s got nothing left except personal attacks. It’s bad for our democracy. We know everything we need to know to make up our minds. Let’s just vote now.
Strangely enough, I thought the same thing yesterday afternoon. Then last night I was talking to a friend who said the same thing. She is concerned about the outcome and finds the suspense very difficult.
Asking about Ayers is hardly a personal attack. Seriously – why would any decent person give a man like Ayers the time of day? Regardless of your politics, Ayers should be seen as a despicable little man – and the fact that the Chicago Democratic machine (Obama included) thinks otherwise doesn’t say anything good.
We must be ever vigilant!
We must let due process proceed. We can let no opportunity for deviation sway us from our established right to self determination. This current difficulty is one of the least acknowledged costs of Democracy.
Sadly I can foresee our current fearful “leader” GWB, in response to some real or perceived slight, declaring marshal law and suspending the electoral process. Fear ensuing would only play into the hands of the fearful.
We must be ever vigilant!
Right. Go put on the tinfoil hat again, William.
Thank you for the endorsement and the suggestion (summarily dismissed.)
Just curious here, which sort of little man are you Mr. James Robertson?
William – the type who wouldn’t toss bombs to make a point. Plenty of people objected to the Vietnam war in the 1960’s and 70’s, and made their point successfully and non-violently. Even if you agreed with Ayers’ goals, it’s pretty clear that his actions made them less likely to happen.
What is the downside to McCain and the GOP watching the most negative presidential campaign in memory blow up in their faces?
The crazies that Palin is attracting already exist – I’d rather see them out in public and let the rest of us see just what it is that the Limbaughs, O’Riellys and Coulters of the right are doing to our country.
Jonathan – there are plenty of equally crazy nutters on the Obama side. There’s ACORN vote fraud, there’s vandalism against Republican signs, there’s the fact that conservative speakers get shouted down on campuses, while liberals never, ever get shouted down.
Insane, overly aggressive political nutters come from all ideologies.
There’s aggression and aggression.
In early 20th-century Japan, the ultra-nationalist and war-mongering faction was able to gain the upper hand partly through assaults and assassination.
Here today, the shouts of “Treason,” and “Off with his head” at McCain-Palin rallies seem always to occur in handy proximity to a microphone, as Josh Marshall has noted. If Reagan’s disrespect for federal employees, Gingrich’s linking of words like “criminal” to political opposition, and Limbaugh’s and O’Reilly’s intemperate pronouncements ended in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, what can we logically expect from this sort of invitation?
And yet, the loudest attempts to shut down speech comes from the left, targeting the right. Funny, that.
Sorry to rise to James’ bait, but the board that Ayers and Obama served on together, the Annenberg Challenge Project, included Republicans.
This is a phony issue.
davidw – then those Republicans should be ashamed of themselves, too. I don’t care who they were – they should not have been willing to have lunch with Ayers, much less have served on a board with him.
Yes, James, forgiveness is so un-American.