Sunday afternoon musings - I'm scaring the shit out of myself.

[Stinky The Clown]

What if McPalin wins?

The Bush years will seem like the good old days.

McCain is an old man who is, I suspect, too tired to actually govern. He no longer stands for anything apart from simply winning. In another time and another place, I am reasonably sure he had actual principles. He had a personal set of fundamental beliefs. But not any more. Now it is ..... just ..... about ...... winning.

And then he'll retire. While in office. Sure, he'll stay on as the titular head of government, but he won't be governing. A bunch of unelected people will be running things.

Do you recall his calling the political religiosos 'agents of intolerance'? That was pretty cool. Now, sadly, he has thrown that principled stand aside and given those same agents' kids the keys to the front door. He named one of their own - a real religious nut job - as his heir and successor.

That's pretty damned frighting. As bad as Bush is/was, a McCain presidency will be worse. Every right wing vermin will be scurrying from the darkness to the light. And standing tall, proud, and in your liberal face, daring you to try something in that certitudinous way that only repubicans and religious nutfuckers can muster.

The Supremes will be the first to go down. I would not be one bit surprised to see Falwell's kid get a seat. Or Palin's pastor from The North BumFuck Pentecostal Church and Snake Farm.

John McCain is a walking study in ennui. He really doesn't give a shit. If he did, he would not have Rove and Schmidt behind him, just based on what they did to him and his kid in 2000. But no. He has them because winning is more important than being a man. He has the religious nutters' sweetheart, Puckhead - and all the baggage ***that** coughs up - as his new BFF. Because winning to him, is more important than principle.

McCain likes to say how much he reveres Barry Goldwater.

Barry Goldwater lived and died a man of principle. I admired Barry Goldwater.

John McCain is not fit to drive that ham radio laden Firebird Barry used to drive.

John McCain's not fit to any longer invoke his name.

John McCain's not even a real man.

But if he wins ....... these will have been ........ the last best days.

[JSK]

1. They've already had their coup

We'll just have to have one of our own.

:patriot:

[grasswire]

2. many of us don't think that Palin's cohorts will give McCain the time...

....to retire. Those people shoot doctors, remember. The fact that the nuclear arsenal and the power of the military would be under her (or Todd's) control means events would spin out of control in a big fat hurry. They believe it is their destiny to rule the earth.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. I posted here, when he named her, that he ought to hire a taster

You're right.

I would put nothing past those people.

[MichiganVote]

4. Hard to say what will happen....I expect higher fees and taxes for anyone other than the wealthy,

I expect an increased share of whatever is left or borrowed by the government to support the military, I expect a total meltdown of our bedrock agencies or departments through either neglect, no leadership or no money, and I expect consistency in one area only...

The republicans will say we're making progress.

For our part, the US will no longer be an affordable place for us to live and we'll begin the process of relocation.

[DemoTex]

5. Robert Stone nailed it in todays NYTs: " .. scythe, sackcloth and all four horsemen."

As for the 2008 presidential election, Stone had this to say: “If, in this campaign, illusion triumphs over what we must believe is reality, we will fail as a nation. There is, after all, a point of no return. If McCain wins, history is here big time, scythe, sackcloth and all four horsemen.” (my emphasis)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/books/review/Upfront-t.html?_r=1&ref=review&oref=slogin

[demodonkey]

6. No matter what happens, DO NOT FORGET the downticket races. House. Senate. State House...

...etc. We must win these and win big. It will be the last hope of any control over these nutjobs if McPalin wins and even if Obama wins we need to send him a Congress that will support him and state legislatures and governors that will help with Change for the better.