Re: He hasn't clinched it
by
tubbs
05/07/2008, 2:03 PM #
justshakingmyhead, I agree but I also want our party to come together. If we have to play the whole thing out so everyone feels that they got a fair shake, then I don't have a problem with it.
Also, I really believe that once we turn our guns on Republicans instead of against each other, we will win decisively. They are fighting such an uphill battle. Even in the best of times, Americans are ready to turn the page after 8 year presidencies. Bill Clinton had a strong economy and relative peace at the end of his watch but people clammored for something different, the Lewinsky scandal didn't help, but it was mostly just Clinton fatigue.
That's the best of situations. But at the end of THIS debacle? After Iraq? Broken Army? Housing mess? Gas prices? Katrina? Bin Ladin still alive? Warrantless Wiretap? U.S. Attorney firings? WMDs? I could go on. My point is . . . well Ralph Nader made the point when he announced his presidential bid on Meet The Press (and don't get me started on that):
"If the Democrats can't landslide the Republicans this year, they ought to just wrap up, close down, emerge in a different form. You think the American people are going to vote for a pro-war John McCain who almost gives an indication that he's the candidate of perpetual war, perpetual intervention overseas? You think they're going to vote for a Republican like McCain, who allies himself with the criminal, recidivistic regime of George Bush and Dick Cheney, the most multipliable impeachable presidency in American history? Many leading members of the bar, including the former head of the American Bar Association, Michael Greco, absolutely dismayed over the violations of the Constitution, our federal laws, the criminal, illegal war in Iraq and the occupation? There's no way. That's why we have to take this opportunity to have a much broader debate on the issues that relate to the American people, as, as, as a fellow in Long Island said recently, Mr. Sloane, he said, "These parties aren't speaking to me. They're not speaking to my problems, to my family's problems."