Monthly Archive for October, 2008
It’s getting worse when the son of conservative icon William F. Buckley decides to vote for the other side:
This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget “by the end of my first term.” Who, really, believes that? Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis. His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking?
Maybe not as eye opening as the son of the Republican god (that’s Reagan to the rest of us) comes out in favor of the other side, but certainly telling about where things are going.
I feel a bit behind the times here, with so many major things going on involving the election, the economy, et. al., and I haven’t really posted much of late. So, here is some potpourri, to catch up my thoughts on the latest and greatest stuff going on.
- It’s kind of amazing to think that this election is looking more and more like a blow out as we get closer to election day. Even the mainstream media is starting to whiff the scale of what’s going on. People are hungry to see the wave crash over DC and sweep in a real Democratic majority. I’d love to see it, but I still won’t hold my breath until November 5th.
- On that note, it’s amazing how badly McCain is campaigning. I mean amazing. Nothing he’s done seems to have been thought out or anything with him. The Palin pick? His stunt with shutting down his campaign due to the bailout? It just boggles the mind. When did John McCain go from being a serious politician to a pure yutz?
- One of my favorite candidates from this election has been Darcy Burner. She’s running for Congress in Washington state. She’s got great progressive chops, seems like good peoples, and is still running for office despite losing all her possessions in a fire. That’s dedication.
- The economy. Well, let me just say that this is what happens when you spend the past five years simply pushing around bad debt and making money on paper. The stock market got so over-inflated that when this bubble burst, it burst so hard that the correction to the market is going to be ridiculously painful.
- I want.
More as time warrants.
