At least today's NBA playoff games begin in twenty minutes.
Let me see if I get this straight.
According to various reports, some 30-odd percent of Hillary Clinton supporters threaten to vote Republican in the fall if Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee for President.
Now, is it mistaken of me to imagine that those falling into this camp have stated a preference for Clinton precisely because, at some level, she is not George W. Bush?
And yet, at the same time, whatever his personal idiosyncrasies, Republican nominee John McCain’s policy platform is essentially inseparable from the one ruinously pursued by Bush, indisputably the worst chief executive in American history. So, in essence, if Obama is nominated, many so-called Democrats will abandon the party to vote, again, for Bush III?
Help me here. These people are Democrats … how?
And, tell me: How does such craven behavior inspire thinking people like me to (a) take their cognitive abilities of turncoats seriously, and (b) view their preemptive electoral tantrum as anything other than the self-defeating decision of the chicken to vote (again) for Colonel Sanders?
Can they be drummed out fast enough?
How many of the local Democratic power elites professing support for Clinton intend to vote Republican if Obama is the nominee? If the answer is more than “one”, isn’t this yet another indictment of the local Democratic party’s inability (or unwillingness) to articulate a coherent policy position on anything at all?
At a deeper level, doesn’t this prove yet again that the two-party system is completely inadequate to represent the diversity of opinion in a nation of 300 million people?
Take your time. There won't be a quiz. Are you ready for that Lakers-Celtics final?
This vaguely reminds me of some similar event much closer to home, yet I can't seem to put my finger on it.
ReplyDeleteHmmm..let me see.......OH yeah!!!
That would be our most recent city primary right here in good ole New Albany!!
What was that again about learning from past mistakes??
"What was that again about learning from past mistakes??"
ReplyDeleteThe law against learning from past mistakes may be the only one regularly enforced.
Those who insist there are ideologically identifiable political parties in Southern Indiana are wasting a tremendous amount of resources perpetuating a deleterious myth on the public in a manner perhaps best described as a variant of Stockholm Syndrome.
ReplyDeleteBeyond that, the best one I've heard so far is about local grandees deciding which presidential candidate to support in the primary based on whether or not they received a personal invitation to their respective campaign events.
That makes watching generally rational people feign happiness when such idiots retain power even more fun.
damn and here I was just trying to read up on platforms to make my decisions.
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First, Hillary has a huge responsibility to address this should she not get the nomination.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, I cannot figure out how people can be for either of these people and, in theory, for what they stand for, and consider voting for a candidate who represents a platform that was devastating to the nation.
It frightens me what people use as criteria for voting.
I think I'll likely just stick with voting for Silvio Berlusconi.
ReplyDeleteKG for MVP?
there is a third alternative, ralph nader.
ReplyDelete"there is a third alternative, ralph nader."
ReplyDeleteFunny.