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Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:23:17 -0700

Desperate Republicans 08

Let me paint a picture for you. Imagine that you are the Republican leadership. The Republicans have had control of the executive and legislative branches of the government for the past eight years. Those past eight years and the policies of your party have embittered the citizenship of the entire United States. Mistakes were made; an unpopular war was initiated under your watch. Your party, the Republicans, supported the most unpopular president of all time, even when his leadership was virtually non-existent. The liberties for which our servicemen are dying to protect were eroded for the sake of security of an increasingly mislead nation. Worse yet, the strong economy which was inherited by your party is now limping along after being trampled by the mismanagement of the past eight years. How can you hope to become the next president of the United States?

There are basically only two choices. You could either save face, distance yourself from the current administration and their policies, expecting to lose this up coming election, and prepare your party for a comeback two years from now. This would take a tremendous amount of restraint and humility. Alternatively, you could lie, cheat, and manipulate in the most desperate of ways to win this election. Nothing less could even bring you close. Can you guess which of these two strategies I am going to suggest that John McCain is using?

The Republicans have proven that they are desperate not to lose this election - and that is there greatest weakness. Because of their desperation, they chose to run a woman with little political experience, Sarah Palin, as the vice presidential nominee. This choice could only be an attempt at siphoning off disgruntled Hilary Clinton supporters from Barak Obama. But it isn't all about her - it is about how their whole campaign has ran.

Think back to every criticism the Republican party has made concerning Barak Obama; what attacks *didn't* seem desperate? The controversy regarding his minister? Desperate. The repetitive inference that Barak is of Muslim faith? Also Desperate. The ads comparing Obama to Paris Hilton, claims that Obama will increase taxes, inferring that his support of educating young children about sexual predators is some how perverse.... These acts of desperation know no limits, apparently.

But lets not fool ourselves - we Democrats are desperate too. Desperate to see our troops brought home from Iraq, our military repaired, and our standing in the world as a great nation restored. We are desperate to fix an increasingly failing economy, to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil, and to provide adequate health care to the impoverished. We are so desperate that we are afraid to move, afraid to yell or scream, afraid to speak the truth regarding John McCain and his lies. And the recent polls seem to justify these fears: Obama and McCain are dead-even in the race for the presidency.

Well, I'm not so sure if those fears are truly justified. Sure, I'm as nervous as anyone else; I check election news once or twice daily in hopes to bolster my own confidence in the outcome of this election. But there is one thing that we need to keep in mind - keep drilling into our head. There are many more newly registered voters this season, and they are all energized and focused to make one Barak Obama our president. The polls don't reflect these first time voters. The polls don't mean anything.

So we should let the Republicans be desperate while we speak the truth unabashedly. Let them be desperate - and we can be hopeful.

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