Okay, okay, I love the kos-race just as much as anyone. I've been reading blogs all day and discussing politics all day with my thankfully politics-obsessed BF. We've have tons of fun. We have fun here, especially reading about why Ron Paul is a kooklamatz and when people artfully skewer the traditional media and other beltway hacks.
But as we get closer to the Iowa caucuses, you guys seem (-sweeping generalization alert-) just go completely apesh*t and take it to an alternate universe of paranoia.
What's the fun in that?
Now maybe I can't see it from your point of view. You love and esteem your candidate to the utmost. They are the only one capable of whatever, or being electable because of whyever, or because they are completely like or unlike whoever. Now, I remember back was I was young, in 2003, Dean-crazed partisan that I was, actually seeing Howard Dean walk on water. Yes - he absolutely did, about six or seven yards. He made it back to the shore unscathed, and with another union endorsement. It was stirring.
So I am having trouble identifying with the hysteria, because clearly candidate X is nothing like Dean in the least. And I NEVER trashed any of the other candidates!
Well, maybe Kerry, a little. And the 04 Edwards....umm, and... probably everyone else too (i.e. Kucinich is still unelectable).
Here's a true story. I was in a deli, wearing my Dean button and a Kerry button guy walked passed me and sneered into my ear, "He's going to looooose." The hate was clear on his face. I was up in arms. How could this dried up Ent win anything???
Well, not very long after I was indeed resigning myself to a Kerry vote and even got comfortable with the guy (not the button-wearer, the candidate). At least I was voting against Bush right?
Well all is said and done, what is the hysteria about? We have a golden opportunity to set this country right and any one of our candidate could direct this country better than a Republican.
So a special note to the Obama supporters who are trembling with outrage: cheer up - this will test him for the Republican attacks. For the Clintonistas, and Edwards fans who are pleased to see the spotlight on the rival: schadenfreude will be shortlived if your guy pulls a bad position in Iowa.
What's the point ultimately? It will get a lot uglier before it's pretty again. But pretty it will be. And if we do come together (we will), we can win.