Salon.Com.. GOP should forfeit - the danger of this thinking

[nadine_mn]

Ok I admit I loved reading this article but you know what ...it scared me a bit

Election 2008: Declare a forfeit
http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/06/17/team_mccain/index.html

..." And with America now facing an election so ludicrously one-sided that it threatens to permanently traumatize a large percentage of the population, I would be remiss in my duty as a citizen if I did not propose that in the spirit of national unity, the GOP must be allowed to forfeit the coming election

Sound familiar to anyone? Remember how sure we were that Gore would be our next President way back in 2000 (nevermind that he was our elected President...the one who got to wear the groovy black socks with the presidential seal on em was Dubya).

And remember how sure we were that Howard Dean was going to be the candidate in 2004 - esp because he was motivating the youth vote?

And even if Kerry wasn't our best candidate... so many of us laughed at the idea that Bush would win a second term.

And now with McCain a sorry shadow of Dubya (never thought I would say that) it seems so ridiculous that he would win...yet I am scared that he will.

" It isn't reasonable to expect the GOP to bounce right back after being led for eight years by a destructive nonentity like Bush. The father of modern American conservatism, the late William F. Buckley, remarked before he died that Bushian conservatism had failed to "take into account reality" and that the movement had become "slothful.

To dismiss Bush and Co is to underestimate the power they have - after all - by lying, cheating, and stealing they have stolen elections, disenfranchised voters, profited from the deaths of thousands, and left the country in ruins and their wallets fattened.

One thing I have learned is that nothing is a sure thing - and so even the tongue-in-cheekiness of this article

" Oops. Never mind. I take it all back. In a stunning revelation, Fox News has called Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, his "baby mama." The explosive development follows the Fox team's exposé of the Hussein Obamas' "terrorist fist jab" and their ongoing investigation of B. Hussein's blackness. (According to Fox News anchor Lester Maddox, Osama bin Hussein was still black at press time.) These bombshells have thrown the race wide open. It'll be a thriller. A nail-biter. Game on .

I still worry that the sentiment of how can Obama not win will cause us to become "slothful" and "fail to take into account reality".


Vote - early and often

[Berry Cool]

1. Same here.

The article is a great laugh, especially for basketball fans, but if we took it too seriously it would be a bad idea. Best never to take anything for granted.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

2. Anyone who thinks this is going to be a walk over hasn't paid attention

Hell, at 7PM on that Tuesday night in '04 it looked over then too.