Untitled (Words Fail Me)

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The accounts of John “No Shame” McCain, Sarah “Even Less” Palin and their campaign and surrogates actively whipping up anti-Obama hate frenzies at public meetings continue unabated.

They seem to have deliberately, as a matter of conscious campaign strategy, adopted the tone of the more irresponsibly strident right-wing talk-show-radio hosts. They’re pandering, in the basest possible way, to what the NYT described as “race-baiting and xenophobia”. That’s a very volatile mixture to be playing around with so irresponsibly.

It doesn’t look like McCain and Palin have retained enough of the moral sanity that they presumably once possessed to consider even for a moment that there are a hell of a lot of really crazy people out there. If McCain and Palin continue to stoke irrational fears and hatred in such people, it is certainly not a remote possibility that this country could witness yet another political assassination.

Have McCain and Palin really not even stopped to consider the consequences of their culpability if that happens?

If they have, how could they possibly continue going down this road?

Who are these people? How can any sane, thinking person even be contemplating voting for them? Are more than 40% of Americans really going to endorse this unconscionable evil with their votes?

Comments

  1. Limbaugh's Diabetes says:
    October 11, 2008 at 1:39 am

    No, not over 40% of Americans will vote for them. A very small part of our population even votes. In 2004, an estimated 221,256,931 Americans were eligible to vote but only an estimated 122,294,978 actually voted.

    In 2004 there were 293,655,404 people residing in the United States. So less than 40% of the population as a whole voted.

    Which means just a tad over 20% of the U.S. population enthusiastically forced us to endure the last 4 years of Bush.

    I don’t know if this information is enlightening or simply depressing. Knowing that you don’t have to stress that over 40% of the public around you are raving lunatics chomping at the bit for 4 more years of the same is kind of nice. But the realization that it could take just about 70 million folks (so, less than the population of 2 Californias) to determine our next president… Well, that’s some scary stuff as well.

    Watching McCain, in yesteryear or today, makes me physically sick. When I imagine him and that Hooter’s waitress in the White House, I wonder when I slipped into this seemingly endless horror film. But thinking about how it could very well only take the equivalent of two Californias to beat Pop n’ Tart? Now that’s what I call delicious gravy.

    Keep the faith, folks. I really believe we can, and WILL, prevail.

    Obama 2008!

  2. sarabeth says:
    October 11, 2008 at 2:11 am

    I did, of course, mean 40% of those who vote.

  3. GabbyHayes says:
    October 11, 2008 at 6:04 pm

    if 20% of voters or less voted for gore or kerry, then 80% of voters voted against. It’s far worse than you expect. 20% were moved enough to actually get off their well-upholstered asses and go out to pull a lever, fill in a circle, impregnate a chad for the bozo in the white house, but 60% cared so little whether we had a serious minded, heroic, brilliant, and decent person in the top job–or a clown–that they gave us Pennywise straight out of Stephen King’s weirdest novel. That’s the 60% who need to be stripped of their worldly possessions, given one-way tickets to nations where voting isn’t even allowed, and encouraged neither to call nor write. We need to associate infinite shame, indignity, perhaps even criminalty with this sort of indifference. If you are friends with someone who couldn’t be bothered to vote, then you have one too many friends. Why will we object to child molesters living among us when we blithely allow the criminally indifferent to live almost like normal human beings, making a mockery of the sacrifices of our forebears, ourselves, and even our children (those guys in wheelchairs slowly drinking themselves to early graves to put behind them the things they have seen and done to ensure the right to choose–our children: yours and mine). Move the nonvoters out of their homes. Let them live under bridges if they won’t willingly leave the country. If we have to house drug dealers, whores, and rapists, we need not show any mercy to the nonvoter. If I must explain further, I shall be forced to spit blood upon the berber, and thus for the sake of decency, I shall say no more.

  4. sarabeth says:
    October 11, 2008 at 6:49 pm

    Maybe you already said way too much?

    As in, way too much utter nonsense?