(Yes, I know there've already been a half-dozen diaries on this, but no one paid attention when I brought this to their attention, so I figured I'd pile on too).
Sarah Silverman made some news last month with The Great Shlep, in which she asked younger Jews to fly their "fat Jewish asses" down to Florida to convince their grandparents to vote for Obama.
Well, I have no idea how successful this endeavor was, but I think it's just become a moot point. Why?
Two words: Brad Blakeman
Biggest. Dick. Ever.
Instead of reposting the transcript (it's already been done a half-dozen times) or pointing out the absurdity of trying to compare Palin's utterly-unnecessary $150K shopping spree to Obama's totally-reasonable visit to his DYING GRANDMOTHER, which the Secret Service is pretty insistent on providing adequate security for (thus the private plane), this diary is about the likely fallout:
Blakeman pretty much just guaranteed a Florida loss for McCain.
This 85-year-old woman, who raised Obama as if he were her own son (or, for that matter, her grandson, which he is, after all!), is DYING, asshole!
Does this dickhead really think that Barack Obama, up by about 10 points nationally and by about 100 electoral votes state-wise, less than two weeks before the election, would actually make a risky "publicity stunt" move like an unnecessary 7-hour (or whatever) flight to friggin' HAWAII unless he was certain that his grandmother was in dire straits???
Well, guess what, asshole? You just pissed off every grandparent in Florida. And, for that matter, every elderly parent living in a nursing home or who's otherwise cut off from their children most of the time.
You just lost McCain his only remaining reliable base demographic.
What a tool.
My suggestion? Give $76.70 to Obama to help fuel his 767!! (Or $767 if you have that much to offer...)
(ActBlue thermometer swiped from Gangster Octopus, hope ya don't mind...)