I feel your frustration, Cenk. You've placed your money on the horse to win, not to show, and now you're feeling like you might be played the fool. I give you a lot of credit for becoming the face of a new generation of American politics, you've thrown your hat in the ring and put your reputation on the line. Now you see the poll numbers lagging and you want to light a fire. Like I said, I feel your frustration but I feel I must also disagree but from another angle. I don't always love your writing, I think you're much better with debate, I think you'd make a freakin' fantastic job interview coach, but I really thought this was well thought out, well reasoned, well written, very very tight. Really enjoyed it.

However, I do feel I get my money's worth, I do feel that there are a lot of concrete and solid examples. For me, the capital gains tax is the biggest example, but the time table is another. To me, the really loaded statement about sitting down and reviewing the extent of the legality of all actions taken, by a Harvard Law professor means a lot more to me than read my lips, or morning in America or some other silly jingoistic catchy phrase.

I hate to use the sports metaphors, level playing field what what, but never-the-less, I'm used to basketball. To a lot of scoring, the very thing people complain about, no defense, just peeps running up and down, on skates as it were. In boxing, one man attacks, the other parries, feigns, jabs. There is a flow to it. McCain has been on attack and it seems like Barack, up until very recently was reticent to attack or perhaps had another strategy in mind. It seemed like everyone was just waiting, waiting for the other shoe to drop, and it didn't and the poll numbers kept falling.

I'd like to offer an other theory if I may. I think that there are two competing forces inside the republican party attack machine. We only get to see its ugly face every four years so we forget about this two headed demon. And I think the old school was sick and tired of seeing the flag dragged through the mud, with seeing Rove going up on contempt charges after all his bluster and promise of a few years earlier, and finally just had enough. But the truth is the old guard just ain't what it used to be and it done run out a steam.

There is an ebb and flow but think golf not baseball, it isn't about back and forth, it is much slower. Barack takes the high road very well, it is what he does best, let him do it. John McCain seems well fitted for the gutter he finds himself in with the biker rallies. The impish yankee doodle drooler has found himself suddenly reborn by the likes of a Southern Cross Kid Rock brand of real sleaze and degradation. But it won't last, it has been shown for what it is. Sometimes silence can echo and be deafening and when this last sad chapter of a dying credo falls on deaf ears, words won't nearly be enough to breathe new life into your old party, your dear, grand old party.

Really glad you came around, your excitement, and even your anger are contagious, and your anger is almost always tempered with a really deep profound belly laugh sense of humor that is refreshing in the current climate of wink wink dry sarcasm.

Whatever you do, don't click this link (studies show you're more likely if you shouldn't)

by tiggerporn on 08/20/2008 02:12:39 PM EST