I hate to count chickens before they are fully hatched because the left is a hateful thing that will not die no matter how many stakes are driven through its vapid heart. I said it from the beginning that McCain was going to a coronation not an election even without Sarah Palin the independents were going fall heavy for him. They almost always fall for the GOP because most aren’t liberals. Watching Obama fight it out with Hillary really sealed his doom, it highlighted his clear vulnerabilities and overwrought his image as an iconic figure.
The thing though isn’t that he was overwrought as much as when you looked under the cover you saw a man with a history that did not fit. The Great Oz was not so great nor so accomplished. The great Oz was essentially an empty suit with a big voice with art for delivering speeches. Obama has struck a wall like a jellyfish in a rocket but for those of us who looked at the reality saw the wall and saw Obama as the jellyfish.
Sometimes I think the political strategerists are just too close to the trees. They look at the most silly things and assume this is the perfect storm for liberals forgetting it helps to have a candidate running on issues that people really support. The left instead fools itself that America is just like them. They never stop to ask themselves whether the America that sees need for change means that it desires bigger more expansive more expensive government. They never stop to ask when they are exulting each other on how tolerant they are whether America wants to have their liberal social views shoved on and indoctrinated into their children. They never ask the hard questions of themselves because they can’t accept the answer.
The answer is that America still wants to win. America still wants traditional values of strong two parent man and woman families. That America doesn’t take pride in killing the unborn or the elderly. That America doesn’t see bigger government and higher taxes as a solution to the woes of the common man. That most Americans still want a job not a handout and as long as that is the case the left when they run empty suits built of pure liberalism as a frontal assault will find themselves left wanting on election day.
John McCain and Sarah Palin don’t need big words to be respected. They have proven themselves through the sheer substance of their lives.
Good post in a very good thread. Thanks to all posters.
“John McCain and Sarah Palin don’t need big words to be respected. They have proven themselves through the sheer substance of their lives. “
Well said, on this September 11th. Words can indeed inspire, but it is our actions that give meaning to our lives.
Tatt