Poll dancing

[pasithea]

Yeesh. As McCain slips in the polls, the right wing is getting exponentially more hateful in their campaigns. More and more, their hate and racism is rearing its ugly head as they keep trying to assert Obama is a muslim. They're so angry that Obama has not played the race card. They were counting on being able to scream about that and mask their racism but he hasn't and as their guy slips in the polls, so too does their mask begin to slip and we see the true ugly face of america behind it.

I wonder how long it will be before they start blithering about succession.

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[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

I don't want it to happen either, hell, it's my worst nightmare. It's SUCH a nightmare that nobody really talks about it, both for fear of becoming a suspect or for fear of causing it to happen. But everyone knows it's a possibility. There's a lot of crazy fucks out there being whipped into a frenzy. It just takes one.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

The sheep can be lead away from the slaughter too.

As soon as the election is past, they'll drop that tone as fast as possible. Think about how bad it would be for the Republicans with the House, Senate, and Presidency going to the democrats, Biden as president, and the sympathy of the nation for Obama.

I've spent the past 8 years advising people on our side that killing Bush would be the stupidest possible thing they could do. You can bet there's at least one person in the right wing noise machine who's also smart enough to come to the same conclusion.

The next few weeks will be a dangerous time for Mr. Obama but after the elections, they'll turn quickly to curb their rabid dogs.

[yetanotherbob.livejournal.com]

Interesting data point.

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

I fear that might be too little, too late. We are dealing with people who react violently to change.

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

The problem is it's rapidly moving out of the ability of the Republican leadership to control. Lynch mobs are nonrational. We are dealing with lizard brain stuff here.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

But lizard-brains are also easily distracted. It's like Judo. You don't have to stop their force, just re-direct it into something they can't _do_ anything about. The election in Ukraine would do nicely. Stoke up those old soviet fears, invoke the name of Saint Reagan and suddenly their racism is nationalism and they're voting for McCain out of fear of 'the commies'