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Edited on Sun Sep-14-08 04:06 PM by butlerd
Has anybody thought of us using a "buyer's remorse" angle when trying to convince people to vote against McSame/Palin? What I mean to say is (and I hope I'm not mangling this beyond comprehension), right now everybody is looking at the election and who's going to WIN it but I'm concerned that maybe we (and the Obama campaign) aren't focusing enough on trying to help those "undecideds" understand what things might really look like AFTERWARDS if, higher power forbid, McSame/Palin somehow manage to eke out a victory.
While none of us can predict, with absolute certainty, what will definitely happen during a McSame/Palin presidency, I think that both McSame/Palin have, in their statements and actions, given us plenty of signs and portents of what's to come should they be elected (i.e. war with Iran and MAYBE Russia, more people uninsured, further economic disaster to name a few things) and the best part is, nearly everything is already in the public record.
I just wonder how much "buyer's remorse" McSame/Palin voters (the "sane" ones anyway) are going to experience should McSame/Palin get elected and if there is a way that we might be able to get the "undecided" to think about some of the stuff that McSame/Palin have indicated that they are interested in doing before pulling the lever for them for some superficial or "emotional" (i.e. "hockey mom", first woman VP) reason? To use a food analogy, having buffalo sauce with my chicken strips might taste great at the moment but usually leaves my stomach pretty upset afterwards. We all know how quickly Bush's Presidency fell apart after his hard fought (but narrow) victory in 2004 and, given his poll numbers in the months and years thereafter, I imagine there were more than a few people whom regretted voting for him again.
IMHO we need to whatever we can to keep voters from making the wrong choice (in the first place) because if McSame/Palin win and they mess stuff up (even more than they already are-which we can all be reasonably sure that they will) they will undoubtedly just argue that they've had their "accountability moment" and ignore us-and good luck getting the Dems in Congress (even if we are stilll in the majority) to go after them via the impeachment process. Basically, the time to make a difference is NOW- or we wait another four years.
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