Finally

It's been, what? Four years, or so, of this stupid blog, mostly dedicated to trashing things I don't like or don't understand. Many of those things are associated with today's Democratic Party. It's staffed by venal punks who couldn't carry John C. Calhoun's colostomy bag, and most self-identified Democratic voters seem to go in for weak-ass tactics and heavily-hedged arguments. Then, there's the "grassroots" "independent" folks, who don't know what the fuck they're talking about. What a mess that was.

It's all in the past, I think. It seems blasphemous to even hope at this point, but have you seen what the Republicans are trotting out this year? Now that's a fractured, fucked-up party! However, unlike the Democrats, the GOP-ers are only as good as their leadership (hence why the GOP has become a bigger and bigger stain on the American soul for the past two decades).

And the leadership is putting out shit like this.

John McCain? His campaign is all over Obama with hard-hitting shit like this.

Really, now. You're going to compare the Democratic nominee to Jesus and Moses, and that's your plan for making him look bad?! Idiot! This reminds me of, well yesterday, actually, when I saw that Rupert Murdoch's stepson Wally was asking the deep, hard-hitting questions he's known for: will fat people vote for skinny Obama? It's a stupid question by a sub-moron writer, but it sums up the McCain campaign so far perfectly: "John McCain is a dumpy, old, crabby white man, like your grampa who used to fly off the handle and take a swing at you when you were a child and made a little too much racket while the football game was on. Obama is like a hollywood celebrity. Vote McCain!" Look, if there's one thing that fat, stupid, even conservative Americans have proven, time and time again, it's that they will buy/use/keep/treasure/follow/vote for/kill for/strive pathetically for anything associated with Hollywood celebrities!

Vote McCain!

But that's not really the point of this rambling post. No, the point is that the Democratic Party is on the verge of scoring a knockout three months before the vote is even taken. Just for a moment, think back to 2000, when if Bush had run an ad comparing Al Gore to Jesus, Al Gore's campaign would have released a statement saying something like, "We have not heard of this ad, so we cannot comment. Mr. Gore remains committed to running a clean campaign." And then MoveOn.org and the rest of the ADD leftwing online community would have creaked into action with a frenzy of unfocused, random, and smug, self-congratulatory attacks of the Republicans' tactics that were just as off-putting as the original offense. Fast-forward to 2004, and it'd be the same story. The truth seems to be that there is a vast majority of America that doesn't give one or even two shits what MoveOn.org does, or that it can get Will Ferrell to impersonate GW Bush in a 2-minute online ad. The public wants to give Will Ferrell money to watch his really shitty, one-joke movies. The public also wants to give Obama a lot of votes for being a hopeful, helpful, change-istic guy, and he just needs to keep doing that and it's in the bag. The public does not want Will Ferrell to make political commentary, and it doesn't want (apparently, much to my consternation) any concrete policy proposals from Obama.

The public wants nothing at all from John McCain. Which is why he is foundering, trying everything he can think of to get attention, and it isn't working. So he's already at the part where he has to use Jesus (Jesus!) in a campaign ad. An online campaign ad. Which is exactly the kind of ridiculous and WTF?-style antics that the left has been working up as its "big deal" weapon for the past two presidential elections.

If the Republicans want to swap, and base their campaigning on MoveOn.org, which has never gotten even one single issue or candidate approved by the electorate, then I say, "Do it! NOW!!!"

Oh, the Obama response to the assertion that he's like Jesus, in an especially-sacrilegious way:
"Obama campaign spokesman Hari Sevugan dismissed the ad as a juvenile stunt."It's downright sad that on a day when we learned that 51,000 Americans lost their jobs, a candidate for the presidency is spending all of his time and the powerful platform he has on these sorts of juvenile antics," he said in a statement. "Senator McCain can keep telling everyone how 'proud' he is of these political stunts which even his Republican friends and advisors have called'childish'..."

Finally, Democrats have grasped that actual facts carry more weight than abstract principles and outrageous stunts. It's morning in America.