A McCain Win Validates Bush

No doubt many of you will vote for Obama believing that a new era of all-embracing harmony shall cover the land like rivulets of bipartisan dew. We on the other hand just want him to do less evil. Call us cynical, but new eras have a hard time dawning while Steny Hoyer is Majority Leader. (Though it would be nice to see Joe Lieberman forced to crawl across Statuary Hall on his way to the 36 member GOP caucus while being jabbed with pointed sticks and slapped in his sanctimonious mug with the entrails of rotting fish. See...who says we can't dream.)

Back when the rancid visage of George W. Bush first spittled its way into the national consciousness, we were sure he would never be elected. Our reason? "Just look at him!" You could see he was the most transparently unfit being to hold office since Caligula made his horse a Senator. Look now at John McCain...the desperate, addled, graceless, jittery, watery-eyed basket case who's offering "a firm hand on the tiller". Put aside that well before the next presidential term expires, McCain appears lucky to have a firm hand on his walker. Put aside that GOP Senators are on record as saying they are terrified of a man with his temper being anywhere near such power. Put aside that McCain's closest economic advisor is Phil Mush Mouth Gramm, champion of Enron and bank deregulation. Put aside that in his only actual governing decision McCain chose Sarah Palin.

No...if there is one transcendent reason not to vote for McCain (or do a Nader/Barr protest) it is that this country must not in any way seem to validate Bush! Should Obama win, the media...not just Fox but blithering idiots like Brokaw and Blitzer...will be decreeing before the last votes are in what "this election means". They will tell us that America is not really liberal, does not really want health care, does not really want an end to the Iraq war, and on and on. But this election CAN NOT, if we really have any interest in going on as a country, be said to mean that Bush and Cheney got away with it.

This election can not mean that torture is OK, that science has less credence than a book, that the Constitution is just another "advice document", that government is nothing more than a trough of crony capitalist swill, that thought and rationality and basic economic fairness hold less sway than the inanities of Samuel Wurzelbacher.

After January 20th, there is a very real possibility that Dick Cheney and W. would be arrested for war crimes if they travel abroad. Don't let it be said that in this country...founded by Franklin & Washington & Jefferson & Adams & Paine & Hamilton & Madison...we responded to all this evil with a McCain presidency. If we do that...then we have looked at the horror, greed and incompetence of the last eight years and responded as Cheney did to a question from Martha Raddatz...with a twisted lip, a heart full of hate, a visible contempt for law and our fellow human beings...and one word..."So".

Comments

[straighttalkonmccain]

Because of my personal politics, I will not be voting for either McCain or Obama tomorrow. I live in a safe state, and so I can vote my conscience. But I do think that this is one of those elections where there definitely is a lesser evil, and while he won't acheive anywhere near what I would want him to, Obama would probably do less damage than McCain. Many times, unfortunately, voting is just a strategic decision for that day. Wednesday we need to get out and keep fighting for what we believe in. http://straighttalkonmccain.blogspot.com/

[silverball]

it's a wise strategy NOT to indict any of them....until after 20 jan 09, after which gwb CAN'T issue pardons...­..LOL.....­can't wait......

YES WE CAN......