Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Sick of
Tonight I am simply full up to here (just below chin) with constant polling, punditry, prognostication, dirty tricks, speeches, media bias, and all the rest of it, and we still have another week of it. I have a weak stomach for this stuff. I only know what I read at Fox News' website, TCS, Right Wing News, Weekly Standard, and blogs. I would have had a stroke long ago if I listened to nightly network news. I was banned from it years ago for constantly getting upset, more with the reporters than the events.
Something that crosses my mind about this election is that maybe part of the intensity and rabidity is that we are having to choose between two totally different things, similar to choosing between an apple and a potato. [It doesn't matter whom you compare to which, the analogy still holds.] We either have to choose a strong, militarily powerful approach to world affairs with a domestic policy that wants to remove the government from a lot of personal areas, or a pacifistic approach with a strong government intervention into personal areas.
There is no common ground between the two parties this year. People have to make a choice, and the choice is stark. I think many professional politicians that have lived off of spin and looking good are afraid this year. There are things that just cannot be spun. When survival is staring you in the face, there is no need for spin, just direct, unequivocal action. There are attempts to convince us that such is not the case, but I think we realize otherwise.
I avoid discussing politics anywhere but on my blog. I have friends that are rabid anti-Bush types, and I still want them to be my friends when it is over. That is a big concern to me and I have seen it stated elsewhere, what happens when it is over? How do we retreat from all the virulent invective that has been produced? Suppose President Bush is re-elected and has about the same Senate as now? Will any more business get done? Or will the Democrats go for revenge and block anything out of spite? The supermajority requirement to stop a filibuster effectively provides for minority rule. Yet we still have a war to wage and win.
Sometimes I hope that the hysteria from the left-liberal crowd is akin to the supposed hysteria driving the radical Muslims. They see the death of the old way and are desparately trying to forestall it. There are times when I really couldn't turn my hand for the difference between the two.
This election will be a Gutterdamerung. If President Bush wins it will spell a horrific blow to the left-liberals. If Kerry wins, I think it will spell the end of much of our way of life. Not from his domestic policy, we have had such before, but from his pansy ways in the face of determined destruction. We will have much more bloodshed in the US in such an event, and the resulting attempts to counter it will be far more devastating than what has occurred to now. Think standard big government response, draft, Patriot III, Patriot IV, effective martial law.
All I can hope for is that the US collectively has sense enough not to elect a traitor to the Presidency.
Something that crosses my mind about this election is that maybe part of the intensity and rabidity is that we are having to choose between two totally different things, similar to choosing between an apple and a potato. [It doesn't matter whom you compare to which, the analogy still holds.] We either have to choose a strong, militarily powerful approach to world affairs with a domestic policy that wants to remove the government from a lot of personal areas, or a pacifistic approach with a strong government intervention into personal areas.
There is no common ground between the two parties this year. People have to make a choice, and the choice is stark. I think many professional politicians that have lived off of spin and looking good are afraid this year. There are things that just cannot be spun. When survival is staring you in the face, there is no need for spin, just direct, unequivocal action. There are attempts to convince us that such is not the case, but I think we realize otherwise.
I avoid discussing politics anywhere but on my blog. I have friends that are rabid anti-Bush types, and I still want them to be my friends when it is over. That is a big concern to me and I have seen it stated elsewhere, what happens when it is over? How do we retreat from all the virulent invective that has been produced? Suppose President Bush is re-elected and has about the same Senate as now? Will any more business get done? Or will the Democrats go for revenge and block anything out of spite? The supermajority requirement to stop a filibuster effectively provides for minority rule. Yet we still have a war to wage and win.
Sometimes I hope that the hysteria from the left-liberal crowd is akin to the supposed hysteria driving the radical Muslims. They see the death of the old way and are desparately trying to forestall it. There are times when I really couldn't turn my hand for the difference between the two.
This election will be a Gutterdamerung. If President Bush wins it will spell a horrific blow to the left-liberals. If Kerry wins, I think it will spell the end of much of our way of life. Not from his domestic policy, we have had such before, but from his pansy ways in the face of determined destruction. We will have much more bloodshed in the US in such an event, and the resulting attempts to counter it will be far more devastating than what has occurred to now. Think standard big government response, draft, Patriot III, Patriot IV, effective martial law.
All I can hope for is that the US collectively has sense enough not to elect a traitor to the Presidency.
// posted by Bill @ 9:10 PM 
