StrangerThan
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Actually, Bush was the consequence of Clinton not being man enough to own up to his own shit. I've said several times that I've voted Republican once in 20 years. That happened in 2000. I voted for Bush the first time. It wasn't because he was a Republican, wasn't because I thought he was just the shit, wasn't because I disliked Gore.
I voted for him because the nation needed someone who had some personal integrity. Clinton had none. Beyond that, he had zero balls. What I wanted out of Clinton - who I voted for twice - was for him to be man enough to step up and say, yeah, I did. Now let's get back to work. What I got instead was him squirming all over the place, looking for legal definitions that let him lie, and eventually committing an impeachable offense.
Gore is and was, as stuffed a suit as one could find, boring, bland, and blank. By 2004, the Republican party couldn't have bought my vote, but in 2000, they didn't have to. All they had to do was present someone who appeared to have some personal integrity, and if he was going to get himself a little, would be either smart enough to not get caught by the attention whores or man enough to own up to it and move on.
If you could have given me my ideal ticket in 2008, it would have had Colin Powell on it. I liked the man, a lot. When McCain picked a woman to run as VP, I thought the act itself, brilliant. In one swoop, McCain attacked the I-wanna-make-history vote, i.e. the people who would vote for Obama simply because he was black. The problem was, he picked a candidate solely to appeal to the Christian right - and that was the idiocy sitting in the back of the room. He had no reason to. McCain had the Christian right. He had much of the middle. By picking Palin, he isolated himself and created more controversy than either she or he was able to overcome.
Democrats are full of hate because they spent 8 years feeling sidelined under Bush. They howled, they screamed, they cried, they did everything but don sack cloth and smear ashes on their foreheads. I know. I was right there in it with them for maybe 4 years. Every fucking cherished item on their agenda was basically shit upon. These folks worked themselves into a rage, and beyond that into frothing, whirling dervishes spitting venom from every mouth and every asshole. Again, I know. I was right there with them and spat a lot of it myself.
You know who started giving me pause? It wasn't a politician, not a blogger, not a philosopher, not the populist rage. It was Dan Rather. I watched him because I wanted Kerry to win, and because he so evidently did too, because when everyone else realized the ship was sinking, Rather held on to it with tooth and claw. In the two years following, I pretty much walked away from politics, but that night never left me. It never left me for simple reasons, the main one being that having been a journalist at one point in life, I knew there was something wrong with someone in such a position being so animated, eager, and clearly so partisan. That's not what the job is. That's when I also, started paying attention to the media, and saw that ya know, them fox people got a point, much of the media is slanted.
I mean you start looking for the shit, you can't walk two feet without stumbling over it. So I'm sitting there, thinking about what people are feeding me. I listen to democrats rail against corporations, and see well hell, only certain corporations, namely those that aren't lining up behind them. They seem to be just fucking fine with corps that play the game, send them money, and push liberal things.
Democrats are full of hate because they're just as damned two faced as Republicans are, because people in this country are sold on the Dem/Rep model, because there are two sides in this country that will never meet in the middle, two sides that can't stand each other, two sides that house extremists at the ends and the Democratic left of center to far left had Bush crapping all over them for 8 years, because they spend oodles of time pissing all over the "red" states without fucking realizing that half the reason there is so much fucking anger is because they do piss all over them.
It isn't democrats that are full of hate and anger though. Republicans got their share. And now we got protesters demonstrating against wall street, many of whom look just like the poster child for the hippie movement. If these folks, do not clean up their shit, the movement will fizzle. Two years from now, the same people will be beating drums and chanting slogans like "the people united will never be defeated" without ever realizing, the people aren't going to get behind them because it stinks too fucking bad back there. They need to clean themselves up, get a friggin clue as to what they want besides shouting at the rich, and adopt a platform "the people": can and will stand behind. They have promise. They need more than promise though.
Democrats are the party of every whining, pissing and moaning slob in America, who just can't fucking wait to figure out some way of making taxes higher. Oh yeah, I know. let's tax the rich. Ok fine. Now tell me in your infinite wisdom, who is actually going to pay that damned tax? The rich fucker or your silly ass when you buy what the rich fucker makes?
Republicans have become the party with no heart and soul. They are on the verge of shooting themselves in the foot again. I'm telling you, I don't know who these jerks hire as PR people and advisers, but they're wasting a lot of time and money.
What neither party seems to realize is, it isn't the base you have to court. It's the people in the middle. Which is why, I like seeing Tea Parties and protesters, because I would love a political system that put all the freakish extreme folks in place where I didn't have to choose between which extremity I disliked least at the moment when I'm standing in a voting booth.
Yeah, there's a lot of anger, a ton of it. The latest crop of it is spewing out of the Dem side, but tell ya, I've lived in a 'red' state for a long time. The anger that sent Tea Partiers to Washington didn't go away. Might think it did, but if you do, you're living in your own I'm-a-badass fantasy land.
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