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Edited on Mon Oct-06-08 11:17 PM by Bucky
Maverickman!! Maverickman, look at me. Look deep into my eyes, Maverickman. I want to speak to John now. Can you let John up to the surface for a minute so we can talk? Once we've had a quick little chat, I promise I'll let you get control of the body again. Thanks....
John? John, is that you? Good.
Look, John, I don't think your Maverickman personality is going to give us much time, so I'm going to jump right to the point. I know you've let Mav take charge for the duration of the campaign and you think you can reassert control once you're in office. Don't worry, John, I'm not trying to rehash that old argument again. But I need you do something for me while you're down in there sleeping away and trying to figure out how you can sweet talk your way out of putting Rudy in charge of the FBI.
What I'm worried--what I need to talk to you about right now--is your pick for Vice President. Okay, okay... about Maverickman's pick for vice president. She's off the hook, John.
No, no, you frisky little swabby, I don't mean "off the hook" in that sense. Jeeze, didn't you promise Cindy you'd cut that shit out? What I mean is that she's not able to walk the fine rhetorical line like you do between stirring up the conservative base and setting them off on some violent tangent. These people have been programmed by the far right wing for years to be desperate, even paranoid, about the apocalypse or about swarthy violent enemies lurking around every corner plotting to do us in. Your newfound buddies on the nutty right--Robertson, Dobson, Rove, Hannity--they've been cultivating this irrational fear in the public for years, knowing it was always good for a few million votes.
Shit, John, I even remember eight years ago when you let Maverickman cut loose on Falwell. Lord, that was a sight for sore eyes. I think that was back when you still had a little bit of control over him, of course. But once again, I'm drifting off topic and our time is limited. I need to talk to you about what Mav's teen sidekick, Winkygirl has been saying at her campaign stops.
It's of course perfectly fair game to call your opponents high spending high taxing liberals; and I'll even cut the Governess slack on her "white flag of surrender in Iraq" malarkey. It may not be accurate, but this is a campaign and I'm not so cold hearted as to demand that you Republicans stick to the actual facts--particularly not this year. We both know that when you heat up some people in your party's base, you're raising the temperature in a fireworks stand. But when Palin starts accusing Obama of hanging out with terrorists, of getting his start in politics at the behest of terrorists... dammit, John, that's just throwing a cigarette butt into
that same fireworks stand.
When voters gather at a rally and one feels moved to shout out "kill him" at her comments, you'd be insane to think they're just letting off steam. Now you know and I know that the guy who shouted "kill him" probably directed the "kill" at that ex-weatherman kook. And we both know that the shouting guy isn't going to do anything of the sort. But when you gather up large crowds of people who have been conditioned for years to think that some vague alien "other" is out to destroy our way of life or sap our precious bodily fluids, then there's bound to be one or two marginal characters in the audience or out in the televised audience who might take those paranoid feelings too far. Some guy with a gun and a grudge against society is going to start getting thoughts.
This is how it works. This is how Dallas happened, and Memphis, and Oklahoma City. This is how innocent Sikhs and Pakistanis and Armenians got beaten up by total raving strangers in 1991 after Iraq invaded Kuwait, because they were brown and Asian looking during a time of hysteria unleashed by our country's leader for political purposes. A mood of paranoia and impending cataclysm envelopes a section of society and some guy on the fringe with his own issues he's trying to suppress can't handle the pressure and lashes out. And people die. When you get up behind a lectern and tell people to be suspicious and afraid to gain support, you start that ball rolling. Before this week, I've never seen your or the Mavster part of you take it to that point.
See, you set a standard when you're a leader, and sadly you've allowed your little sidekick--okay, okay, Maverickman's little sidekick--to go past that point. Some guy at a Palin rally shouting "kill him" about probably a supporter of Obama's and not about Obama himself (I hope) isn't the trigger. No, John, that guy jocularly calling out for political violence is a warning sign that that trigger has already been pulled. When you quit attacking Obama as untested & inexperienced and instead attack him as suspicious and an unknown on the verge of taking control of the country, you pull that trigger. Sadly, Mav Prime and the Little Red Mavrette have pulled that trigger.
I seriously doubt any harm will come to the Democratic nominee; the Secret Service is really quite good. But by unleashing hysteria in her pursuit of the vice presidency, Sarah Palin is increasing the chance that someone is going to get violent. Someone with a lot of anger and fear and not a lot of self control is going to comfort himself by carrying a gun in what he thinks is dark times. And then his anger is going to come out. It already happened once this year in New Hampshire during the primaries when community passions were running high and a guy with a gun and without self control tapped into that fear. That time, thank goodness, no one was hurt. But again, I ask you to be less of a Republican and actually heed the warning signs.
Pull back, pull back from that brink. Talk to your perky little MiniMe and tell her to pull back to. I know in your heart you don't want some crank off his meds leaving a note to his estranged wife and shooting up a campaign office. I know you don't want some depressed Limbaugh-junkie plowing his car into a crowd of Obama volunteers. And I know you know that there are yet even more dangerous types out there in our beautiful country who might do some real planning before acting out their hatreds. Don't stir them up. Tell Winky not to stir them up, either.
If you don't win, you don't win. Like Ann Richards said, it's just an election. Put your country first. You can always blame your loss on that monkey. And when it's all over you'll still be a filthy rich United States senator and married to more beer than man can drink in a lifetime.
Okay, John, I can see Maverickman is starting to resurface. I'll let you hunker down and go back into "Hilton mode" until the election wears off. But just remember what I said. What little control you have over the big galoot, use it to get him and Annie Oakley to be a little bit less Daffy Duckish and little more grown up. Lives could be at stake.
Hey, thanks for letting me talk to John, Mavvo. No no, little buddy, Karl Rove didn't call while you were "under." Were you expecting a call? |
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