Tuesday, September 02, 2008
It’s Over. We’ve lost.
September 2nd, 2008. The 2008 Election ended this morning as a vast cadre of liberals, progressives, Democrats and like minded journalists lifted the white flag and surrendered.
We surrendered something a whole lot more valuable than our vote. We surrendered our principles. We surrendered our core values.
We surrendered all hope. We surrendered our shared dreams that our daughters would inherit a better world, a world of promise, equality, justice, fairness and honor.
posted by the WIZARD, fkap at 9/02/2008 10:53:00 AM
http://wizardfkap.blogspot.com/2008/09/its-over-weve-lost.html
We had dreamed of a world where our 17 years old daughters wouldn’t be striped naked and raped on the front page of the New York Times, above the fold.
We dreamed of a world where a candidate, man or woman, could run for the highest office in the land and not be “swiftboated” with sexual lies and slander so vicious, so cruel, so gross and destructive that they actually wither our very soul.
I actually believed we were better than that. I actually believed “swiftboating” was the sole property of Republicans. I actually believed we wanted to debate the issues. I actually believed we wanted the real change so eloquently promised by Senator Barack Obama. I actually believed we wanted a better world for our sons and our daughters.
So I thought the extremely bizarre story, so obvious a blatant lie, that somehow appeared in The Daily Kos, claiming Governor Sarah Palin had somehow faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her wayward teenage daughter would be laughed off and quickly vanish form the Kos pages like the trash it was. It was a joke, A sad, sick joke.
But instead of the aborted fetus it should have been, it was born full grown into the waiting arms of liberal bloggers and journalists, who quickly passed out cigars and congratulated themselves as proud mamas and papas. All this in spite of the fact that absolutely everyone knew the story was an absolute lie.
The only thing we aborted was the truth.
Like all lies, it took many forms and grew in dozens of directions simultaneously. The Huffington Post, already in full blown Palin Derangement Syndrome, ran every possible rumor, variation and invented more lies to compliment the original. And the main stream media, who for a solid month refused (absolutely refused) to reprint or broadcast a single word of the John Edward’s affair, ran with the verifiably fake Palin story within hours of it’s publication.
All of a sudden, “Did you hear what they wrote in The Kos” became an acceptable substitute for fact checking. Of course, since one single phone call could disprove the story, nobody in the mainstream media could be bothered to pick up a phone.
Finally, Governor Palin was forced to issue a statement. She had no choice. She advised the salivating media of her teen daughter’s pregnancy. And that’s when we finally surrendered our all of our most cherished principles.
Armed with an official statement, nothing could possibly hold the main stream media back and the liberal blogosphere went berserk. The full fledged gang rape of Bristol Palin was underway. Any shred of decency that remained in the liberal blogosphere was gone.
Remember that wonderful Academy Award Winning Movie, “Juno?” Remember the warm and supportive television series “The Secret Life of An American Teenager?” Remember liberals demanding we treat a pregnant teenager with love, support and respect. Well, f#*k that s*&t, there’s a conservative teenage harlot to burn at the stake!
There are a very few crying “don’t.” I point with great respect to The Ikonoclast and to Lee Stranahan over at HuffPo, but the mob is out of control and cannot hear their pleas.
Barack Obama himself is pleading for restraint. But the town sheriff’s eloquence cannot stop the mob. There’s a lynching to be held. And now, on day two, we’re going full force after the teen father. Seek and destroy. Seek and destroy. Seek and destroy.
Terry – wonderfly written. Thank you.
Please
get real.
The McCain campaign found out about this the day before the anouncement from Palin herself.
They could have avoided the mob mentality. They could have minimized its impact when known.
Instead, they chose to keep it hidden. And it blew up in their face.
Crowley, cry me some croc tears. No sympathy from this Centrist Republican. As the adage goes, live by the sword, die by the sword.
You think the Kos was bad, wait until she is on the Sunday AM wonk shows…..Like leading a cow to slaughter.
And we havent arrived at the point of the VP debates. As Peggy Noonan said, its over.
Centrist Republicans for Obama/Biden 2008
One of two things happened with the choice of Palin, and neither one of them reflects positively on McCain. Either;
1. McCain thoroughly and completely vetted Palin and knew ALL of these details about her that are coming out now, and STILL chose to pick her. Given his 20+ years of experience with the press, he HAD to know that there would be an insatiable appetite for information about this relative unknown. Now, he wants to whine about the media. To say that’s disingenuous would be quite an understatement.
or
2. He didn’t thoroughly vet Palin.
Either way, poor judgement. Now deal with it.
read Dan Balz’ piece in todays washington post on the vetting of Palin
it will open your eyes
Wow. What did I miss. Haven’t been to the “Great Orange Satan” in a few weeks.
They said… WHAT?
Oh and I’m pretty sure “f#*k that s*&t” is something we don’t say on this blog, and will have to be removed. Even if you did just copy and paste the whole thing.
Do look forward to a burger with you though you crazy bastard.
um, juicemama if that’s you, you gotta change it in his original post too!
Vern –
Yeah, it’s me and it’s done. Sorry I only changed the comment. I don’t read Crowley’s stuff. 😉
SMS
Sarah, I am really not in favor of censorship but I am in favor of referees and their ability to delete inflamatory stuff to keep a flame war from continuing (sure they’re fun, but…) so I see no inconsistency between leaving a post up with expletives and deleting them from a flame war. Just my opinion.
I agree that the salacious nature of the Palin candidacy is really inviting to comment on especially when we have been subject to attack over these very positions by Reeps forever, BUT we need to keep our eyes on the larger picture and avoid rising to the bait like a bunch of lazy fish unable to resist the worm wriggling seductively and helplessly on the hook.
We have become too eager to argue, instead lets put our efforts into argument and not criticism. This is a campaign with Americans none of whom is beyond reproach. Lets talk about the ideas that will imporve the life of the average American not the life of an average American.
Don’t think this campaign is over. There is a long, long way to go.
anonyms –
‘I see no inconsistency between leaving a post up with expletives and deleting them from a flame war. Just my opinion.‘
I didn’t ignore the expletives in the post. I didn’t see them hon! I’m not omnipotent you know!
Like I said, I don’t usually read Terry’s posts. 😛
SMS
giggle…
You giggle. Because SMS has stopped reading what you copy/paste here? Because you feel that you have succeeded yet again in lobbing a gasoline-filled Coke Bottle 1635 miles? I want to see this strange giggling face. Just to determine if the shoulders are all hunkered up defensively.
OK that probably made you giggle more. We are trapped in this unending courtship…