There is a reason why I have virtually sworn off politics on this site, but it isn’t what some may conclude.
Lately I’ve been seeing some other bloggers, who shared my opinions about how the Nov. 4 election should have turned out, focusing on things like Barack 0bama’s birth certificate, or trying to answer proggs’ continued pushing of the “Imelda Palin” line because of how much the RNC allegedly spent on clothes for her during the fall campaign.
As far as 0bama is concerned, I am neither seeking to make nice with him, nor to pursue him like a pit bull, simply because it’s not up to me to decide when or whether he succeeds or fails. It’s on him now, and I say let him succeed or fail (with quiet confidence as to which it will be) on his own merits. Questions of presidential legitimacy are exactly what led the Left to its eight-year-long case of Bush Derangement Syndrome, so I say leave that shit alone. Barack 0bama will take office on Jan. 20, and will exercise the powers of that office thereafter for the next four years. Then it will be up to the voters to judge (1) whether he has delivered the Hope™ and Change™ he has promised, and (2) whether the Republican Party’s alternative candidate is any better.
You know what? I think (2) is of somewhat more importance to you and me than is (1). So, I’ll probably resume comment on politics at some point, but not right now. I just don’t have anything useful to say. (Except, you know, what I’m saying here. To my fellow bloggers.)
Let 0bama succeed or fail on his <sotto voce> puny, nonexistent </sotto voce> merits. People will be a lot more willing to listen to alternatives if they’re coming from people who haven’t been nagging them endlessly for four years about what a useless schmuck their new president is.
As for the proggs’ Palin Derangement Syndrome, why let that be The Narrative™ about her? We should talk instead, for example, about how much her campaign appearances in Georgia helped increase Saxby Chambliss’ margin of victory in the Dec. 2 runoff. Instead of answering the proggs’ accusations with counter-accusations, focus not on mythical negatives but actual positives.
Negative campaigning may work, but not in the absence of a counter-balancing campaign of positives.
