You Have Forgotten the Face of Your Enemy.
Wed May 14, 2008 at 01:47:46 PM PDT
Look, I know it's been a long primary.
I know passions are high, I know tempers are flared.
I know, also, that it's nearly over - and that things have been said by Obamatons and Hillbots that cannot be lightly put aside.
And yet, once again, it is time to do so.
This is for all of you. All of you, in both remaining campaigns, that find more value in loading rifles and standing in a circle than you do in arming and fortifying against your enemy.
You have forgotten the face of your enemy. And, like many others here, I'm going to try to remind you.
Look, I sympathize. Were it any other election, certainly most of the elections I've voted in, this primary would have me writing in Cthulhu.
But I can't.
Has 2000 taught you nothing? Has 2004? Iraq? Katrina?
Do you really think that, even with the dismal outlook for Republicans this year, that they will ever stop fighting, give up, and go home? Ever?
I don't trust either of the Democratic candidates. You all see me joking, and snarking, and agreeing with you on the war, and the economy, and the environment, and you think that because of this that I'm an Obama fan or a Hillary supporter.
I have news for you. When I'm around a bunch of people that agree , I get scared - and when I start to agree with them, I get terrified. And Obama scared me because it looks to me like, in the name of unity, he's going to let the past eight years slide - and I believe down to the core of me that the last eight years could very well be where history judges the end of the Noble Experiment.
Yeah, I know - paranoid. Tinfoil-hat. Conspiracy theorist. But we're debating torture. Like it's something with room for debate. And torture has been approved from the President on down, so when I say that the Administration belongs in jail, I say this not as a partisan moonbat blogger, but as someone dedicated to the rule of law in this country. If we let freely admitted torturers go unpunished, and from all I see that is exactly what we are preparing to do next January, why should we or anyone obey the law?
And Hillary? Don't get me started on Hillary. The utter contempt that she has shown to the citizens of this country is appalling. And this is from someone whose first lesson in life was cussedness counts. I do not have the words for what her campaign has done for my hopes of an end to the war in Iraq, or even a slight loosening of the corporate chokehold on this nation's democratic process. Murdered, while emotionally charged, doesn't come close.
Nevertheless, if she steals the primary - and she may yet do so - I will still have to pull the lever for her in November.
I have a daughter. The next President will be selecting at least one, and possibly two Supreme Court justices.
And I cannot stand by and let that President be John McCain.
Thank you to all the Kossacks whose pics I ripped off for this diary.
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