Booman recently posted this little essay: Keeping Things in Balance.
After a parapraph that was a truly tortured attempt to remain “neutral” regarding Obama’s rightward rush while still supporting him, the second and last paragraph stated:
But I will say this. If anyone in the Obama campaign is listening, tell your candidate to take his foot off the centrism accelerator. He’s feeding the left more centrism than they can digest all at once. We all knew and expected that you would tack to the center once the nomination was secured. But you definitely should dole this stuff out in a more piecemeal fashion. You’re actually starting to damage the unity, motivation, and credibility of your base. And that has its costs.
After my laughing fit subsided I decided to write a reply to this post.
Which grew.
Here it is in its entirety.
But I will say this.If anyone in the Obama campaign is listening, tell your candidate to take his foot off the centrism accelerator. He’s feeding the left more centrism than they can digest all at once. We all knew and expected that you would tack to the center once the nomination was secured. But you definitely should dole this stuff out in a more piecemeal fashion. You’re actually starting to damage the unity, motivation, and credibility of your base. And that has its costs.
The “unity, motivation, and credibility” of Obama’s base, eh? And dissing that base “has its costs” ?
AHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!
“And that has its costs!!!???”
PLEASE, Booman.
Stop it.
Yer killin’ me!!!
The leftiness base has no unity, motivation, or credibility left. Dkos has been a crock of dithering shits for about four years now…as you should well know…and the whole rest of the left blogosphere amounts to a hill of beans compared to the votes in any one swing state.
So…of what “costs” do you speak?
Most of the so-called left is gojng to vote for Obama no matter what he does. A good part of that group will make excuses for his actions…”Oh, it’s only practical politics” (Myself included. The only difference between me and you folks is that I have been consistent in that stance, witness my support of Hillary Clinton as well as Barack Obama during the primaries.)…and the stubborn, embittered few? The angry-and-feeling-dissed middle aged white female vote (recently given the nasty label “the Puma/Cougar vote” by the MSM) and the die-hard leftiness clones who are still holding out for Kucinich?
Please. Win one precinct in Ohio and you have already outnumbered THAT vote.
So what costs do you mean, Booman?
The Obama people can add and subtract.
Can you?
Money?
C’mon.
He has already solved that problem by opting out of public financing.
What’s left?
Morality?
(Parse parse parse…)
To win, or not to win: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous politics,
Or to take arms against a sea of crooks,
And by opposing lose to them? To lose: to rule
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That politics is heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. But to lose, to sleep;
To lose perchance forever!!!??? Ay, there’s the rub.(Parse parse parse…)
OK. I think I’ve got it.
FUCK those leftiness motherfuckers.
Yes. Fuck ’em!!!
Rightward…HO!!!
Yes I can!!!
And yes he will.
Bet on it
Yon prince hath a lean and practical look.
Bet on that as well.
And get used to it, too.
I think you are looklng at 8 years of practical politics.
A BOUNTY of Fitzmasses fer y’all!!!!
That should make you very happy. Just think. Eight more years of complainability.
AHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!
HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO !!!!
Yours truly…
Santa
P.S. Mrs. Claus and I are actually quite tickled.
We just LOVE a good joke!!!
