There is a Name for People Who Relive Democratic Primary Conflict: McCain Supporters

McCamy Taylor

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Wed Aug-13-08 09:52 PM
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There is a Name for People Who Relive Democratic Primary Conflict: McCain Supporters

Edited on Wed Aug-13-08 10:02 PM by McCamy Taylor

By their works ye shall know them.

What happens in the Democratic Primary, stays in the Democratic Primary---unless you are a Republican strategist. Democrats out number Republicans in this country even in a good year. This election, the GOP is in bad shape. Their party�s name is mud. If they are going to keep control of the oil in Iraq for their buddies at Exxon and Chevron and if they are going to bail out the banks which have made predatory loans and lied about auction-rate securities and if they want to keep the insurance and drug industries safe from universal health care, they will have to poach a whole bunch of Democratic votes----

----and that means they have to make sure that the war between one half of the Democratic Party and the other half of the Democratic Party which we witnessed last winter and spring continues all the way through to November.

The last thing that John McCain wants to see is former rivals working together for the common good of the party and the American people. Obama and Clinton have disappointed all the people who hoped to see a replay of 1972, when Nixon and Buchanan and even a baby faced Karl Rove played CREEPy tricks on the Democratic campaigns, calling one candidate names while claiming that the slurs came from another candidate, stuff like that.

A lot of effort went into recreating 1972. They even got Bob Novak to play his old tricks. You know, telling the world that he had the power to read the minds of Democratic politicians. Like when he said that all McGovern really believed in was abortion, acid and amnesty . Last fall, Novak said he knew what one Democrat, Clinton thought about another Democrat, Obama. The press reported what he said as if it was true. They believed him more than they believed Clinton. If he did not have a brain tumor, he would probably be doing it right now. Forget about what Hillary Clinton has to say about Obama and about McCain. Novak would be telling us what Clinton really thinks about Obama and McCain.

Since they do not have Bob Novak, they have to settle for lesser players, people who are not so skilled. Thanks to the internet, what they have lost in quality, the GOP makes up for in volume. There are so many people who will tell you exactly what Obama or Clinton really thinks or is really up to or really did and why you should be pissed off at one or the other of them. Sometimes it is hard for the senators themselves to get a word in edgewise. Sometimes, it is hard to remember that this is August and not January. Some people still seem to be stuck in primary mode, as if the enemy is a Democrat. But only a Republican would call a Democrat the enemy at this stage in the election process�..

Funny, despite all the scary talk, neither Obama nor Clinton has ever actually done anything to make me angry or afraid. If I strip away all the She thinks and His supporters said , I am left with two decent, intelligent, competent and capable people.

So, when I see people trying to distract me with their �But Obama did this!� and �But Hillary did that!�, I can not help thinking �This is just a variation of �Abortion, Acid and Amnesty�,� a Republican smear designed to turn Democrats against Democrats.

And we all (should) know (by now) that Divide and Conquer is the GOP�s favorite strategy for winning elections.

PS: Since the press is McCain's base, expect to see lots more stories designed to inflame Obama supporters (of the "Hillary's people were so bad " type) as well as stories of the "Obama's people stole that nomination using dirty tricks!" type---though the latter will become more common after the convention, since if the press unleashes them before the convention, he can respond by asking Clinton to become his VP. And expect to see every single stealth McCain supporter posting at DU stoking the two fires.