Election Ramblings
Posted at 12:51 pm on Thursday, October 23, 2008, in 2008 Election, and tagged 2008, biden, bush, kerry, mccain, obama, palin.
With my work schedule ramping up, and all of the other bullshit* that life entails, I haven’t been able to blog as much about the election as I have wanted to. So here goes…
- Two issues that should have been discussed at the debates, or at least mentioned once somewhere, anywhere during this election cycle: immigration reform and Social Security. When did those issues take the back-seat to banking reform? Oh yea…
- I guess you can call me a purist, but I do not care how much Sarah Palin spent on her outfits; the fact that it hurts her “Joe Six-Pack” pseudo-image is convenient however.
- So let me see if I understand this. McCain runs as the outsider in 2000, and gets picked to pieces by the base. McCain then spends eight years courting that very same deplorable base (“I’m a values voter.” You know what you are? An asshole.), wins the nomination, and loses the middle in the process. He then chooses Palin to further court the base, but she starts playing by her own rules, most likely looking to set herself up for a run in 2012 (or at least a run for the Senate), and ends up dragging down the ticket. And now the GOP elders are telling him that he should’ve courted the middle all along. And we wonder why McCain is so angry?
- Will George W. Bush throw out a ceremonial pitch at this year’s World Series? Not in battleground states Florida or Pennsylvania, that is for sure. And if he did, would he get out alive? I mean, the fundamentals of the Bush economy are still strong.
- Has there ever been an election when both parties ran against the sitting president?
- We must never forget how important this election is. This is the most critical election in a generation. Tina Fey’s career hangs in the balance. In fact, if McCain-Palin win, I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a True Hollywood Story on Fey in three years max. And then she became addicted to heroin…
- What if there were no polls? Would that be so bad? Just once, I would like to go through my day, without hearing about the twelve-hundred different poll results. Guess what? Obama is ahead, but only slightly, give or take five points. End of story. I apologize to Chuck Todd; he has been so dutiful making so much out of so little.
- Obama will not win in a landslide. He is black, and there are too many obstacles for him to cross to make that possible, at least this time around. Now, please stop suggesting it. It will only lead to “why didn’t he” stories, questioning any mandate that is provided by the results. (Well, it depends on what your definition of “landslide” is, I guess.)
- Speaking of mandates, what is the threshold for having one. Since Bush claimed one in 2004 with 51 percent of the vote (with two percent contested), I’m thinking if Obama gets 52 percent, we should start writing the history books now. At the very least, we should start measuring the drapes.
- Has there ever been a better time to be a democrat? Welcome back to everyone who left us from 2002 through 2005. I knew Bush was an idiot that entire time, and you, well, let’s just say your judgment was clouded. I should make note though that I was never a terrorist sympathizer just because I voted for John Kerry. That was a misconception and misconstruction of my politics. By the way, you are not forgiven.
- Joe Biden is doing a great job; no one even talks about him.
- The GOP is served better when less people vote. Likewise, the more people vote, the more likely the democrats win. That — and that alone — is the reason that McCain, Palin and the GOP surrogates on Fox and elsewhere are ripping on ACORN for trying to register people to vote. Oh, the heavens.
- And I am pro-America, but I didn’t realize it until recently. I really had to question it, though, you know, because of where I live.
* Good bullshit too.
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October 23rd, 2008 at 2:45 pm
I understand the concerns in your last sentence. Well, you must know that California is just like northern Virginia, in the sense that there are no “real Americans” there.