Where is my apocalyptic, scorched-earth smear campaign?
What a difference two weeks can make. Now numerous polls have Obama up in North Carolina, the land of gas lines and the amazing imploding Wachovia... and he is improbably romping in Florida and Ohio, the two evillest of all swing states. Gunshy liberals find themselves unable to stop salivating over the prospect of a sweep from Colorado to Virginia to Iowa to Nevada. Yet we can't help but tell ourselves that this moment will be the one we look back on wistfully, years from now, as the day we foolishly thought our candidate will win.
Well, I've been saying it just about forever, but an apocalyptic, scorched-earth campaign is coming our way, courtesy of desperate conservatives. It has to. They have no credibility left to lose and the election is slipping away. We will be seeing a lot of "Goddamn America" in the coming weeks. What baffles me is that these unregulated outside groups have not yet gone up with many vicious ads yet -- the sort of stuff McCain will nobly disavow but obviously profit from.
At the moment, however, it is very dark for the Mac. Though he did well, the debate did not really change anything and may have reinforced Obama's lead. His campaign suspension gimmick went down like a lead balloon. The long, long years of conservative malfeasance and governmental malpractice have finally caught up with these people, and I whole-heartedly agree with Kos on this:
"Many people will warn against 'getting complacent.' I like to approach this potential problem differently -- we have a chance to rip out the GOP's jugular. We can throw them an anvil. We can kick them while they're down. No matter the metaphor, the underlying meaning remains -- we can destroy the Republicans. Now's not the time to slack, it's the time to pick things up. We've got them in a near rout. Let's destroy them."
Exactly. Our team is on track to pick up Senate seats in Colorado, New Mexico, New Hampshire and Alaska. Yet the economic meltdown seems to have put Republican incumbents in danger in the most improbable places - North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, and even Kentucky. We are literally on the verge of creating a Congressional majority that could pass Obama's agenda over Republican resistance. And that son of a bitch in Georgia, Saxby Chambliss, who shamefully demonized the three-limb amputee veteran Max Cleland as an unpatriotic coddler of terrorists -- he's also facing a strong challenge from Democrat Jim Martin.
They say payback is a bitch. Let's make sure it is.
Well, I've been saying it just about forever, but an apocalyptic, scorched-earth campaign is coming our way, courtesy of desperate conservatives. It has to. They have no credibility left to lose and the election is slipping away. We will be seeing a lot of "Goddamn America" in the coming weeks. What baffles me is that these unregulated outside groups have not yet gone up with many vicious ads yet -- the sort of stuff McCain will nobly disavow but obviously profit from.
At the moment, however, it is very dark for the Mac. Though he did well, the debate did not really change anything and may have reinforced Obama's lead. His campaign suspension gimmick went down like a lead balloon. The long, long years of conservative malfeasance and governmental malpractice have finally caught up with these people, and I whole-heartedly agree with Kos on this:
"Many people will warn against 'getting complacent.' I like to approach this potential problem differently -- we have a chance to rip out the GOP's jugular. We can throw them an anvil. We can kick them while they're down. No matter the metaphor, the underlying meaning remains -- we can destroy the Republicans. Now's not the time to slack, it's the time to pick things up. We've got them in a near rout. Let's destroy them."
Exactly. Our team is on track to pick up Senate seats in Colorado, New Mexico, New Hampshire and Alaska. Yet the economic meltdown seems to have put Republican incumbents in danger in the most improbable places - North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, and even Kentucky. We are literally on the verge of creating a Congressional majority that could pass Obama's agenda over Republican resistance. And that son of a bitch in Georgia, Saxby Chambliss, who shamefully demonized the three-limb amputee veteran Max Cleland as an unpatriotic coddler of terrorists -- he's also facing a strong challenge from Democrat Jim Martin.
They say payback is a bitch. Let's make sure it is.
