The list of Sarah Palin scandals and potential scandals--oh, and the outright LIES she is telling--is growing each day. And each day, it seems, the polls creep up a little for McCain and down a smidgen for Obama. And I just got up after an hour of lying in bed trying to fall asleep to Mike Malloy on Air America.
Even after a sleeping pill, I lay there getting all wound up listening to Mike, who is smart and mad as hell and all, but whom I wouldn't want to sit next to at a dinner party, because OMG he's so goddammned NEGATIVE. I mean, I agree with his politics, but his delivery makes me want to sidle off unobserved until I can dash out the door and sprint for the nearest bar.
So after an hour of hearing him shout about how Obama has already lost the election through his own refusal to launch a direct and vicious series of attacks--yes, ATTACKS!--upon his opponents, I gave up and got out of bed.
I myself am totally on board with this "Obama must do attack ads, NOW!" thing. Scary backgrounds, scary faces (you can do a lot of subtle Photoshop to make someone look like themselves but more, well, like an actual monster) and scary music. And then you do something like this:
- Sarah says she said no thanks to the bridge to nowhere - LIE
- McCain & Palin say she sold Alaska's private luxury jet for a profit on eBay - LIE
- Palin says Obama has authored no significant legislation - LIE
- McCain camp says Obama and Biden voted in favor of the bridge to nowhere - LIE
Okay, that sucks. But with a little effort, some suggestions from friends, and some money, we oughta be able to come up with something. We need to form a 527 group. I already know a couple who knows filmmaking, a guy who can do voiceover, and a guy who can write some seriously Rovian attacks on the Repubs.
See, there are only 2 months left. Rove is brilliantly stomping all over the Dems, again. I submit to you that the time for taking the high road is over. Obama has taken it up to now, but it's time for him to get spitting (but elegantly) mad, and call out these people for who they are: CORRUPT, CHEATING LIARS. If he keeps playing nice, he isn't going to win anyone new. He's already won the votes of everyone who cares about the issues, who is actively interested and involved. Now he needs to go for the undecideds and the independents and, yes, the uninvolved, the uninformed, and even the uninterested.
If he makes some serious, ruthless attacks on McCain, and actually gets angry and makes his points simple, clear, and lowbrow...well. He won't LOSE any of his followers (we've been begging him to get pissed off and let fly some snark for weeks now), but it's possible he will gain some by attracting the attention of people who get their news in soundbites and don't go out of their way to check facts. (If they fact-checked Obama's ads, it should go without saying, they'd find them accurate. I meant that if they don't bother to check to see if what they're hearing is true, they probably simply haven't heard the other side, and might have an epiphany when they do. Or at least some cognitive dissonance, which could prove useful.)
In the meantime, I recommend reading this look at the current state of the race from Wonkette. It's cheered and calmed me, and now I'm going to sleep.
2 comments:
Courage, my friend! I get the night terrors sometimes, too, but I think it's pretty clear that the Palin effect has peaked. They were always going to get a bounce, and they just got a bigger bounce with the Palin thing. But please, and I include myself in this, let's not give in to the liberal's favorite emotion, despair.
I've heard tell that among the seriously religious, the most grieveous sin is despair.
Funny thing is, I know exactly what they mean.
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