you are the media you consume.
In other election-related news, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an interesting response to the big hoopla over that New Yorker cover (I can hear the outrage from David Gregory now):
The difference between the two, of course, being that this one at least has truth to it. St John is a confused old man, and Cindy McCain is a pill-popping, erm, "trollop" (although the "trollop" bit is not referenced, since that's a no-no, while attacking Michelle Obama has become routine). Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Look what happened to Bush when he suggested privatizing Social Security. He didn't even get a bill written.
Beyond the foreign policy, on which I think someone like him could do well, I don't see his appeal. Maybe capitalizing on the Fed and Wall Street's unholy alliance, but I think people's eyes would glaze over, and he'd simply come off sounding like he was a hundred years old. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
I wish we still had him, but the canonization of Wellstone among liberals really went too far. He was a good senator, pretty reliable, but not the God of Pregressivism he's been made out to be. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
And he's only a moderate progressive populist. A radical populist would get completely hammered by "free media", which remember is bought and paid for by large corporations. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Plus, Romney's father was a big gun in Michigan, and even though McCain is now getting his ass kicked there, he might hope for Romney to bust up Obama's lead.
The downside to Romney is in the South, where there are, needless to say, not a whole helluva lot of Mormons, and where Mormons tend to be seen as a bizarre cult. It might further depress conservative turnout, which McCain can't afford, given that Obama is registering new voters in such enormous numbers there, and given that we're probably going to see an explosion in turnout among blacks and young people, of whom there are many in the South.
McCain's lead in South Carolina -- the third-least-likely Obama pickup in the Deep South (behind Alabama and Louisiana) -- is down to single digits (6 in the latest Ras poll, and Ras has tended to underestimate Obama's final outcomes in the region). If that's the story in SC, think of what the story might be turning into in Virginia, NC, Georgia, Mississippi, etc.
So he might be playing with fire going with Romney, but he might have no choice if it looks like O is going to clean his clock out in the West. My sense is that, if he chooses Romney, he'll have decided, "Okay, I'm going to gamble and assume that I carry all those southern states." Kind of like Florida, which McCain can't afford to defend because of the expense of playing in the Florida market (and, if he can't assume a win in Florida, the election's probably over anyway). Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
