So the election is tomorrow.
I'm about 91% certain Obama will win (those are Nate Silver at 538's odds) but I wanted to do a post the night before. I want to just say something.
This has been the worst, most disgusting, horrible, dirtiest election I have ever witnessed. I have been equally repelled during the moments when I thought Obama was sure to win and the times I was worried. Mitt Romney is the absolute WORST general election candidate I have ever seen in my lifetime and possibly ever (he's definitely the worst since these things started getting televised). He makes Dukakis or Mondale look like the second coming of either Reagan or FDR.
Now, I KNOW George W. Bush was the worst President ever so if Romney wins it will take a LOT to top that distinction. But say what you will about the Dub, despite the fact that he was a terrible president, he was not a terrible CANDIDATE. He was able to fool a good amount of people for a very long time. He was about a hundred times the candidate Romney is.
I can't decide what sickens me most: Willard's mendacious lies that he keeps repeating despite thorough debunking from fact-checkers, but with little to NO pushback from the traditional media. Or said Trad Med propping up his candidacy LONG past the time someone this awful should have been viable ("It's a tie!" is this year's "This is great news for John McCain!".) Or that Citizens United makes every single ad on television a political attack ad, usually filled with lies (thank you, Supreme Court). Or the election fraud and voter suppression going on in Ohio and Florida respectively. This is NOT something that should be happening in the country that is supposedly the cornerstone of democracy. Or perhaps the fact that in two short years we'll have to go through this process AGAIN. I'm not joking: the media kicked off the campaign the day after the 2010 midterms. We are looking at a VERY brief respite until November 2014.
I'm from Massachusetts. I just want to tell the nation and the world how sorry we are for inflicting this worthless piece of human garbage upon the national stage. It's an embarrassment and a shame we will never live down. There's a reason he's not contesting Massachusetts. We all know him and hate him here and we've all suffered under him in a position of power. The only consistant thing about Willard Romney is that the more people get to know him, the more they dislike him. I despise this smarmy little crap weasel and the feeling I get when he is crushed tomorrow better be worth the two years of misery he's inflicted upon the country.