Piling On
Hi Folks, this is posted by Ross!
You’ll all guess that I’m going to second pretty much everything Greg has said regarding tomorrow’s election - the importance of the election itself is self evident, especially for what it means for our country (vis a vis the right wing assault on our liberty in the name of combatting terror.) I’d also like to second Greg’s wise observation that even should we manage to get that phone call through to Satan, and to sell our souls in the nick of time and win for once, we shouldn’t rest easy and expect too much to happen - not, at least, without our having to harp and complain and lobby and repeat until sometime in 2010. The democrats have a habit of f-ing up the victory and trying to make nice with the enemy before actually defeating them. We’re going to have a lot of work cut out for us, possibly more than if we lose tomorrow.
Rather than waste a long post (and your eyes) doing that, let me save you some time and tell those of you who live in California how to vote. No matter what else happens, I urge all of you to vote no on 85, yes on 87, yes on 89, and for the love of God, vote no on prop 90.
For those of you who don’t live in California, please, obviously, support Democratic candiates, you know, except for the guy in Conneticut who will almost certainly switch parties on us.
I’ll admit I’m largely pessimistic about this. But my fingers are crossed. Let’s hope there’s some sanity left in us yet. And if, against my pessimism, we happen to have the first good election in 14 years, let’s keep the celebrations down to blended scotch only, okay? Save the single malt for 2008.
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That sounds right to me we will have to ride the democrats hard if they manage a meaningful victory in what has to be one of the most disgusting election campaigns ever devised by the republican sleaze scouts. Don’t be surprised if the Emperor of Space and Time, otherwise known as George II, who inherited America from his father as a birthday toy, declares the election null and void and that only he can appoint people to congress as his royal blue-blood sovereign right.
You are with us or you are against us because if the democrats win then the terrorists will have gained a foothold in government and will be running for office in a theatre near you. But Roger is correct, the democrats spent the last election repeating over and over how they honored their opponents and I think they should have spent more time hitting them on the head with wooden mallets instead though they seem to be doing a bit better this time around.
Though we live in fear of Karl Rove and his bag of tricks Rove is not a genius, he just lacks any kind of moral that you care to mention which has gone a long way to benefit the republicans in the past and those same lack of morals have been the guiding light for any good republican candidate.
Well, it is about 40 minutes to midnight as I write this and who knows what the morrow may bring so I want to wish America good luck and let us hope that the democrats get out and vote because this will be the deciding factor not Rove the evil Pillsbury dough-boy. Really it is not rocket science, people just need to get out and vote.
Comment by rob payne — November 6, 2006 @ 11:27 pm