Palin has stirred up a big old can of whup ass with the base. Too bad that even if every single one of the Republican base votes for McCain/Palin, they still lose.
We knew it’d be inevitable. The current, hot story is: Palin is a rousing success with the wingers.
We all knew that it was pretty much inevitable. I mean, Palin is exactly what the nuts want. She’s what they need. She’s the crack cocaine that the wingers have desperately been searching for. She’s got it all: Good looks, Gun Nut, Iraq is a "mission from God" stance, Anti-Abortion, Oil-friendly, and most of all, she hates liberals! What more could a wingnut ask for?
McCain, for all his faults, has the irritating habit of occasionally crossing the picket lines and working with the Dems to get stuff done. That’s not a fault in my opinion, that’s a good thing. Something that Obama would surely do also. But the wingnuts HATE that. Wingnuts think that anything remotely linked to a Democrat = bad, nasty doo doo head. Anything linked to a Republican = Good, perfect, poop smells like roses. Or something like that.
So my point? A raging, rousing, shouting, screaming, applauding 40-something% of Republicans that are fired up and ready to vote. And make no mistake, they will vote. They’ll come out in droves. Droves, I tells ya.
And....
They’ll lose.
Because 40-something % - even if those voters are highly excited and passionate and teary-eyed, is still not enough to win.
Keep the faith, friends. Take heart. Change is on the horizon, and his name is Obama. We will win in ’08.