McCain Is Right

Turns out, the ad the Obama campaign is howling about is 100% correct.

Is anyone besides me aghast at the audacity of the Obama campaign complaining about dishonesty? They can't even be honest about THAT.

JASmius adds: Victor Davis Hanson elaborates on that point:

What we are seeing is a sort of meltdown in which the selection of Palin is associated with the first real possibility all summer that the messianic Obama may not necessarily ascend; that triggers a certain repulsion toward her in particular, and a general furor at the once likeable McCain (once likeable to present-day Obama's supporters in the past sense that in 2000 he was going to lose, perhaps divide Republicans, and was not George Bush), which, in turn, can conjure up all sorts of no longer latent demons, going back to Vietnam onto to Iraq and the ongoing war in Afghanistan.

The problem (inter alia) with this vicious, loose use of "traitor" and "lie/liar/lying" and blanket condemnations of the US military is that it achieves the opposite of what the authors intend — and repelling most readers to such a degree that they are scared off from anything the writer seems to be advocating.

We've seen that with the Atlantic Monthly pictures and blog rumors about Palin's recent Down Syndrome pregnancy, the unhinged hatred columns of the sort of a Salon's Cintra Wilson or those suggesting riots or global hatred of the U.S. if Obama loses, the Matthews/Olbermann rants, the daily salvos from the NY Times columnists,and the hourly Palin rage from spoiled Hollywood prima donnas.

Do they have any idea of how they sound or where this leads? Despite an unpopular incumbent, economic upheaval, unpopular wars, and a charismatic Democratic candidate, the media, hand in glove with Obama's messianic sense of self, are doing all they can to lose a once sure election by the sheer repugnance of the way in which their anger is expressed and expressed and expressed . . .

I believe Pogo said it best: "We have met the enemy, and they are us."  The Left was at the apex of its arrogant triumphalism when Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992; after two years of indiscrete extremist excesses, it all came crashing back down again in 1994 with the GOP congressional blowout, and then again in 2000 with the agonizing loss to George W. Bush.  That defeat radicalized liberals further, as did the ensuing shocks of 2002 and 2004 when, each time, they assumed without any thought or humility that they were going to get all their power back.  No other outcome was possible in their minds, and when it didn't happen, the (insert Republican name here) Derangement Syndrome metastasized another order of magnitude.

Then their time finally came 'round at last in 2006.  Whether the GOP had become inured to the trappings of power, or the Iraqi front of the War Against Islamic Fundamentalism had exceeded its historical shelf life date, or voters just wanted be free of Donk whining, they finally ended their dozen-year exile from power on Capitol Hill.

Did that bit of satiation of power lust calm them down enough to regain any semblance of perspective?  Please.  That victory had the same effect as the previous defeats - they became even louder, even more obnoxious and despicable, even more extreme, and even bigger liars.  Only thing that changed is that now they had power to abuse.

So, naturally, they thought - and the rest of us, including yours truly, bought into it - that under the banner of The Messiah, they'd not only get the White House back in 2008, but in a landslide of such magnitude that it would give them the latitude to make sure that another 1994 could never happen again.  American politics as it has been for 232 years would finally be over.  No more elections would necessary.  The people would have made their choice once and for all time, and it would be the Democrat Party.

This entitlement/totalitarianist mindset is, by this time, hardwired into the left-wing psyche.  It's the core of their self-esteem.  For them, politics IS their religion.  It's why they hate God and every one who follows Him - to them, WE'RE the heretics, trying to deny them their rightful destiny, to wit, to rule America with an iron-fisted "benevolence" that none dare challenge.

Yet over the course of the summer, it started happening again.  Things started getting flaky - again.  Their Messiah, already deflating after the late-primary season mauling administered by their forgotten goddess, proved to be mortal and clay-footed after all.  The gaffes and pratfalls and mistakes he made back in the spring proved to be the rule rather than the exception.  And then the Dems' favorite Republican did the last thing they ever expected from him: he started contesting the election.  He took whimsical aim at Godbama's colossal hauteur and finished the deflation the Empress started.  And then, after The One made the biggest blunder of all by passing her over for a blowhard nobody from f'ing Delaware, the old bastard trumped him by picking a woman!  An a politically attractive woman!  A popular woman!  A conservative woman!  A Christian woman!  And the more lefties tried to massacre her character and reputation, the more popular she became.

Now Light-Bringer is actually behind.  He doesn't appear to have what it takes to get back on top.  And now even their control of the House of Representatives is coming into jeopardy.

It's all falling apart.  Jesusland is rising again, like the unkillable Jason from Friday The Thirteenth, to "steal" yet another national canvass from the Self-Annointed.  And it is driving them insane.

I've said for years that what the Democrats need, desperately, more than anything else, is a defeat so crushing, so devastating, so illusion-preempting, that the nutters that dominate it would be completely discredited and marginalized, and the "grown-ups" - if they still have any after all this - could re-emerge, take the helm, and start rebuilding the party back in the American mainstream as it used to be, absent the social policy wickedness, the militant atheism, and the ingrained anti-patriotism and Ameriphobia.  That's what made the 2006 midterms so disappointing; all of that disgusting assholery was rewarded instead of punished.

Would an Obama defeat and loss of the House to the GOP in a year that history alone indicates should be a Donk sweep be the expectational equivalent?  Or are we headed for something not unfairly describable as a second civil war?

Rhetorically, the war is already nuclear.  Political violence would be the logical next step.

I'll leave the dot-connecting implications of that conclusion to your imaginations.  I just wonder how many Americans outside "Jesusland" would be shocked by it - or if they'd be cheering instead.