The VP debate was stark in its polarities. When I turned off the debate, I was feeling very high, and still do, but when I turned to MSNBC...
Well, if you weren't there, it was like listening to some alien language, because the words coming out of their mouths refused to register in my brain, but like waking from a dream, I realized that these words signified a victory for the Bush campaign. They were praising Dick Cheney's performance.
Didn't everyone see that moment? Where all of the evil came out, with Cheney deliberately savoring and reiterating the question of Edwards' qualifications? If you got it TIVOed and missed it, check it out; for an instant - one instant - you can actually see a forked tongue coming out of Cheney's mouth as he hissed his evil delight. Measurable.
The fabled October close. The middle ground has to go one way or the other, starting now. Folks know they gotta break one way or another. Some don't, of course. These are your Nader voters (most won't know it until the end). Most are more pragmatic - these undecideds, or so at least I would imagine - I never met any TRUE undecideds, or so at least any who I wasn't absolutely convinced I could take some measure of.
The true middle is a rare place. Some actually know some folks who... well, they've been too busy to devote any thought to it... but they ARE pragmatic - at least most of them - again, I would wager, I've never been to this place of not knowing Bushland from Kerry Country, but I'm from TX-32, and the lines are clearly delineated. Sheep Herder vs. Rancher. Dogs vs. Cats. It would seem to me that the undecideds will now appoint some time to devote some serious thought to the subject, and Kerry has the all-important momentum, that force that's just going sweep up all these undecideds into its gravitational pull.
The more analytical of us who attribute cognitive power to these undecideds are searching for a good indicator to identify them. An unmaskable way, if delivered subtly enough. Did you hear the Edwardsspeak, or the Chenytalk? Two different languages, separated by a "fence", where folks actually deal in parts of both, in some bizarre indeciperable micro-ecology sense.
The Trial Attorney appears just at the right time. Right when the Fascist champion has spoke it's nothing but a pack of lies. Provable lies. Lies that will turn off every "juror" in the electorate. Once... it's explained to them.
So go out and find these people who watched the VP debate, or has an opinion on it, and do what Mr. Edwards is going to be doing. Taking these lies and beating the dogshit out of these fools from hereoninto November 2nd.
Bush had an opportunity to lead the World in a Global War on Terror and we get United States v. Iraq? Oh sorry, Mr. Cheney your evilness, the United States AND Iraq v. Iraq. You got me again in a mischaracterization you sly old dog. The old change-the-definition-of-a-word-in-the-middle-of-an-argument tactic. Classic Asshole.
You know how to find these folks. What you do from there is up to you, but Johnny brought home the bacon in the VP debate - plenty of lies for everyone to improvise on - it ain't hard.
PROOF THE DEBATE WAS SPOKEN IN TWO LANGUAGES: Did you hear Sen. Stevens going off today? Like he had pair to call his own? That Cheneyspeak fired him something good. They actually want to debate Iraq! You gotta hear it to believe it, but the shorter version: Stevens goes bombastic with Iraq righteousness and Sen. Durbin just keeps meekly responding: Anytime Senator. Stevens goes off again. Durbin: Bring it - let's have a debate. Stevens: On and on and on... Durbin: Can't wait, Senator.
I GOTTA SAY IT: Andrea Mitchell might well be Dick Cheney's serpent-mate. It freaks me out to look at her.