Early this morning, I published this entry to my other main blog, Watchblog. In that entry, I once again attacked Sarah Palin. I admit as much that its been a pretty well covered topic, but I published it anyways because it was a point that needed to be emphasized.
And I think it's a point that we as Democrats should emphasize: The Republicans are running on the notion that Republicans can serve Americans better than Democrats on the issues, that those on their ticket Represent a better grade of Republicans. But that is false on its merits. They're not good Republicans, either of these two, much less good candidates.
I know people are getting rather antsy about the polls, but let's keep our cool. That's what our candidate is famous for, after all. The truth is, there are some rather good strategies for persuading people out there, and these have the virtue of being true. The Republicans will have to decieve people to get elected, the Democrats can challenge these people on the truth.
I've spoken about this before. I've even symbolically beat the crap out of my fellow Democrats for forgetting what was important in the midst of all the anxiety over polls and things.
And let me tell you, the same messages apply here. The future is yet to be determined, and we have a much better chance of winning if we calm down, quite nail-biting over polls, relax, and realize that history is at the back of the Democrat's Party's sails and not the Republican's. The Republicans are cruising on the momentum of their party's long dominance of American politics and their candidate's charisma of being a straight-talking reformer. But given all his choices, I think it's safe and honest for us to say that McCain does not have any real credentials as a reformer, at least not any more.
We can do this calmly, matter of factly, and with genuine concern for the issues the Republican Party no longer cares to be honest with the voters about. the McCain-Palin ticket is one that sells reform, not one that can actually bring it.