Scary, but sad.

[prog]

The McCain campaign decided to let Palin do as she please, and she's responded by encouraging entire crowds to hurl obscenities at their own media coverage, shout racial epithets, and call for murder.

Some pale that it sounds like the start of a lynch mob, but I disagree; they have no teeth left for that, and anyway that works best only when nobody's watching, which is hardly the case. No, the other side, smelling defeat, has nothing left to do but spend the campaign's waning weeks lolling about in their own filth, being stroked by their gibbering base. May they enjoy their one last decadent month before they sink into the bog forever.

Tonight's debate is going to suck to watch, though. Expect McCain to all but insinuate that Obama is suppressing photographs of himself, Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright and Matt Damon cackling together over a bomb-making bench.

I'll be here liveblarghing it again, regardless.

Comments

[radtea.livejournal.com]

Nothing lasts forever, not even the absence of racist nutjobs from the national stage. But a decade's respite might be worth something.

The only problem is that while the Republican Party rebuilds itself out of the ruins, the Democratic Party will have a free hand in Washington. NOTHING keeps politicians even borderline honest than the belief that they might lose the next election. When the Opposition does not constitute a viable government-in-waiting the party in power will always go quickly down the "all corruption, all the time" highway.

[prog.livejournal.com]

This again reminds me of how I was honestly energized only two years ago at the thought of a McCain-executive Democratic-legislative combo. I'm so sad he took the road that he did.

[cortezopossum.livejournal.com]

This whole election looks like an exercise in self-destruction (of course, the economy is following suit).

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

It's a valid point, but I do question why the opposition that keeps the Democrats in check necessarily has to oppose from the right.

[radiotelescope.livejournal.com]

I'd love a (truly) conservative opposition party in the US. Can we graft one from Canada or somewhere?