Are we there yet?
Friday, October 24, 2008 at 07:59PM As extraordinary and exciting as the primary season was, this general election has been as big a dud.
What began with such promise just six weeks ago is hobbling to a conclusion, and it can't come fast enough. There's just no denying that this election has been a giant snooze for the past month.
Of course, if you're an Obama supporter, it's been a happy snooze; if you're a McCain supporter, it's just flat out sucked.
I can't help but think that if this was a competitive race, it would be so much more entertaining. In a way, the election has sort of behaved like a manic depressive: it burned brilliantly for a few weeks around the conventions before flickering out. The cause: Sarah Palin. She completely engrossed the country for a nanosecond before revealing herself to be comletely unfit for the job. In one fell swoop she energized the election and then deflated in the wink blink of an eye. We met her, fell in love with her, and dumped her in less time then Tom Brady's 2008 season.
But it hasn't been all Sarah's fault. The meltdown on the financial markets and constant drumbeat of depressing news has contributed to the election doldrum. It's hard to get revved up over parstian hackery when the world is seemingly crumbling around us.
The race has been on cruise control since Obama settled into the lead. The three debates were pure milquetoast, and even the veep debate was a bore. There haven't been any mega-gaffes on the campaign trail, and there doesn't seem to be an October surprises on the horizon. It sort of reminds me of Clinton-Dole in '96, and I wouldn't be surprised if the final tally is similar, too.
Reader Comments (2)
Nick,
It's just the power of supply side economics coming home to roost. It they hadn't actually given the rich ALL the money, they could still be stringing us along on the flawed promise of the rich coming to the rescue.
Newsweek article today shows that Pfailin herself is blaming campaign for how she was rolled out. I mean, even in the most well-managed of rollouts, the broad couldn't even mention a magazine she reads. Those Couric interviews (and Gibson earlier) sunk her, and with good reason: She is an idiot.
Her latest gaffe: in her major policy speech yesterday on funding for special needs children (the one area I did like about her as I have an autistic son) she flat out made fun of the fact that research in this area include millions on studying a fruit fly's genetic code...oh how silly is that and dumb is that and fuding should go in different areas.
If she and her speech writers on anyone that writes stuff to let this broad talk, they would have known that the research that came out of the stupid fruit fly research actually gave valuable insights into certain areas of how autism may work, and what genetic triggers may be the cause.
She blew it even on the one thing I was interested to hear. Seriously, has there ever been a bigger mistake in a VP selection as this?
Footnote: it was revealed Pfailin's makeup artist earned more in September than any of McCain's leading advisors, i.e Nicole Wallace.