The Battle Of Bristol: John McCain Has The Upper Hand
All the talk this election has been how Barack Obama will expand the electoral pie. He will get the votes that went to Al Gore and John Kerry but he will couple them with his new voters, the young and the black and win a sweeping majority.
However, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction and Bristol Palin is that reaction. Sarah Palin now has the capability of being what Hillary Clinton claimed to be — a hero of the blue collar working class.
Sarah Palin is a working mom with five kids who managed to become Governor of her state. Now Palin has been confronted with the great fear, and for many, the difficult reality of a pregnant teenage daughter. Sarah Palin lived by a code and tried to have her kids live by it as well. Did she fail?
Maybe she did. But as many parents know, you do the best you can with your children.
The Left will fight this battle as a political debate. They will argue that Bristol Palin proves their assertions about traditionalism. They will lay it out point by point. The evidence will be solid. And their case will make sense — in theory.
But this is not theory, and to a certain extent its not even politics, this is life. Steve Schmidt is not wrong when in reaction to the news he says, “Life happens.”
The more assholes like Saint Andy and his Kozickstan cohorts attack, the more it will blow back. It’s only gonna take one eruption from either Tweety or Olby to drive the entirety of “Undecided America” into abject revulsion of anything and everything Democrat, because the MSM cannot control the story anymore.
“Thank God there are still Democrats like this left.”
I agree with the basic premise, but, like so much wingnut commentary, it descends into the “evil Left” crapola and counterfeit loyalties that have done so much to bring this whole fucking situation into play, in the first place.
I've read from, and am personally acquainted with, and have spoken to, real, live, flesh-and-blood Republicans who are MORTIFIED by McCain's selection of Palin. To a man, they see her totally differently than I do, and think her relative lack of experience, her status as a woman of faith, her down-to-earth demeanor, etc., as woefully un-presidential. They are furious with McCain for what they consider his throwing a winnable race.
Additionally, a lot of Clinton supporters who have responded warmly to Palin have been confronted by both the Obamabots, the KosKontingent, AND the neocon losers as traitors who were Republicans to begin with, or converts to conservatism.
NEWSFLASH, motherfuckers! Ya DO get to pick your candidate! Your vote belongs to YOU, not either twisted, thoroughly corrupt party or failed ideology!
Never in my life have I seen so many Americans suddenly convinced that “activism” is browbeating your neighbor, coworker, relative, etc. into voting the way YOU want!
I mean, this shit is coming with MIND GAMES!
“Remember, the next president will pick Supreme Court judges…”
“How ANY [insert race/religion/profession/special interest group}….”
“Tsk, tsk, tsk…..and with 9/11 in your backyard….”
“You'll be paying all that out on TAXES, y'know…”
And the ultimate…..
“I think that FAMILY IS OFF LIMITS….”
WTF do we, as Americans, suddenly think that we have any right whatsoever to enforce how people think, and how they exercise their political choices?
“It’s only gonna take one eruption from either Tweety or Olby to drive the entirety of “Undecided America” into abject revulsion of anything and everything Democrat, because the MSM cannot control the story anymore.”
Too early to tell. There are two more months of batshit antics to follow.
The obvious problem with building a media career around one central personality is that, if that character takes a fall, so do you….