consider redneck to be a compliment. The segment is better known as "swing voters" who decide general elections, as opposed to democratic primaries.

I don't want to see McCain elected, but I have no problem if all of this blows back in the Democrats' faces. They're basically pushing hatred of three of their core constituencies - women, blue collar workers, and older folks (which is why this entire election has felt so much about Democrats working out their resentments on other Democrats).

That's why I made a post asking 'please make it stop', I even promised I would vote for Obama if they did (I was on the fence already).

But they aren't stopping.

Now what do I do?

-----------------------------

Around these parts we call cucumber slices circle bites

public life of a candidate as of right now applies to the Repub, not the Dem. When their MCM thumb was on the R side, it applied to Dems.

Note that the MCM has done precious little "vetting" of information about Obama--I think they're saving it to have material (poo-type) to fling at him if he's elected. To keep him in line. Sorta like they did with Bill Clinton.

There's all that time he wasn't a Chicago community organizer, when he worked with Ayers on the Annenberg Project (board papers right now unavailable to the pubic or the press), etc., etc. Just as Hillary's work for the Rose Law Firm became "interesting," if Obama makes waves, Michelle's work with the Daly administration, etc., will become "necessary to know about."

Once Obama is elected, suddenly balancing the budget will become Priority One for the MCM and its reporting and punditry.

Control. It's what the Villagers want and need.

Look at Memorandum. It is not just the blogger boiz, Palin is a train wreck. It is not as if she has a record of solid achievement. She left that township in millions of dollars of debt, so she didn't even succeed in that. She is a train wreck.

I always thought Obama would win and win big. I always thought that McCain would implode, but not even I would have predicted this. It is a replay of the IL senate race. When Ryan imploded the Republicans lost their nerve and decided "hey, lets run a black guy" never thinking that Alan Keyes is just too crazy for prime time. Palin is a replay of that. They thought "hey, let's run a woman" never thinking that it might matter which woman they ran.

It is a train wreck.

I started to do a blog post on his column today, but it's too good to cut any part out of. Everything is there - the stupidity, sexism, class bias of the SCLM, even an example of good journalism on Palin (featuring Campbell Brown of all people). He's a partisan without being truthy. He's interested in the truth becaus he knows that, in the end, liberals win when people can base their decisions on truth.

I think this is a smart observation about the very dangerous class/sex war so many Dems seem interested in waging this year:

As usual, Dowd plays the consummate fool today, closing her piece with inane remarks about people who hide behind manufactured claims of sexism. (One more chance to scold Hillary Clinton!) But in her purring, in her mockery, she (and others) run the risk of making Palin a figure of sympathy. On Sunday, for example, Dowd seemed to mock the fact that Palin attended the University of Idaho. Darlings! It just isn’t done! Except by tens of thousands of voters—while many more dream of the chance.

We’ll offer you this one small guess: This is a syndrome which may have helped recommend Palin’s selection. Our guess: The McCain campaign may have assumed that Palin would trigger a wave of “liberal” condescension and insult—insult and condescension which would work in their favor. In today’s purring comment about “Broken-watergate,” Dowd—who admits to being vacuous—runs the risk of making that happen. Many women (and some men) will of course be offended by such mocking references. Loungers like Dowd may be piling up votes when they purr in this way about Palin.

It's gotten to the point that even I am almost (almost) rooting for Palin to do well tonight and I think she's wrong about everything and signals the GOP isn't moderating, it's doubling down on disaster capitalism and social conservatism. But that's barely been an issue. Instead we get things like this from Gary Wills who is called out by Somerby for this crap:

Then, there’s this passage by Garry Wills, next to Dowd on the op-ed page. In this passage, he lists four things McCain should have known about:

WILLS (9/3/08): Perhaps Senator McCain knew everything that has, with dizzying suddenness, emerged about his vice presidential pick, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska—that she was a director of a political committee in support of Ted Stevens, the Alaska senator now under indictment; an initial supporter of the so-called bridge to nowhere; an appointer of a man who had been officially reprimanded for sexual harassment as the public safety commissioner in Alaska; a mother of an unwed and pregnant 17-year-old; and other things being ferreted out by the minute. But it is an insult to Senator McCain’s intelligence to think even half of these or other matters were known to him before he chose her.

Which of those four things doesn’t belong? If you can tell, you have no future in High Manhattan Culture.

And it's that culture that is killing us. It lets Government write off poor whites as bitter racists undeserving of help. It lets Government write off poor blacks as being irresponsible parents who are poor because of their own bad judgement, not because of any racial inequality. All while they bail out Bear Stearns and give bigger and bigger contracts to Blackwater.

You can not beat conservatives and the GOP by taking up their talking points, even if it's to hit them over the head with them. All you do is reinforce their standards and their talking points as the proper cultural standard, a conservative one.

it's not helping attract voters--at all.

and his future paycheck depends upon going along with this