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On Oct 7, 3:13 am, "[ a patriotic Republican ]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A Country in Shambles, Under GOP > Rulehttp://www.alternet.org/election08/101872/ > The overarching reality of the country is that we've lived under > unchallenged Republican rule, and the country has virtually collapsed > on every level. > There are few things that make political coverage more unbearable -- > and more distorting -- than The David Brooks Syndrome: the extremely > patronizing and ill-informed pretense, shared by media and right-wing > elites alike, that they can study the Little Common Person like a zoo > animal, and then translate and give voice to their simple-minded, good- > hearted, salt-of-the-earth perspectives. Rarely has this mentality > been so transparent as in the wake of the Biden-Palin debate, as > pundits and right-wing polemicists like Brooks, Peggy Noonan and Rich > "Starbursts" Lowry rushed forward to proclaim giddily that Regular > Americans would love Sarah Palin and this love could even help McCain > win, despite -- or, really, because of -- her vapid, content-free > telegenic presence. > > Actual empirical evidence -- called "polling data" -- has almost > uniformly demonstrated how false these condescending pats on the head > are, as every single poll conducted thus far (at least that I'm aware > of) found that Americans believed that Biden won and is the far more > serious candidate for office, and huge numbers continue to have > profound doubts about Palin's fitness for office. And the first > tracking poll to report a full post-debate day of polling -- the > Research 2000 poll for Daily Kos -- finds Obama with a 13-point lead, > his largest ever. This joint right-wing/pundit claim that Americans > would swoon in the face of Palin's empty chatter, self-conscious > folksiness and chronic, seizure-like winking says much more about > those making the claim than it does about their Regular People > subjects. > > As polling data conclusively demonstrates, the mindset of the voting > public is infinitely more rational and substance-based than the > pundits and the Right fantasize when they lyrically praise the Regular > American -- at least it is in this time of perceived (and actual > crisis). What's happening in this country, and in this election, is > rather simple and easy to see: (1) the country is in total shambles -- > possibly far worse than what people even realize; (2) we have lived > for the last eight years under virtually absolute GOP rule; (3) the > public knows this; (4) the Republican President and his party are > therefore intensely -- historically -- unpopular; and (5) the voting > public doesn't want to continue living under the rule of the same > faction and same political party that has driven the country into the > ground. Having Sarah Palin drop her gerund endings and desperately > trotting out the standard, tired GOP attack ads to depict Obama as a > radical, fist-pumping, America-hating, unhinged socialist -- when > everyone can see with their own eyes that he isn't -- won't change any > of that. > > 12Next page » --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
