“It’s not an election; it’s an intervention”
So said Andrew Sullivan, author of The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It; How To Get It Back, in an appearance on CNN. There has been no pithier summing up thus far.
Andrew Sullivan and I share few political views, but that a conservative and a leftist recognize that something is seriously wrong with the current Republican regime tells us something important about this moment of political crisis.
Keith Olbermann does a deft job at putting it all in context, asking for Bush’s apology to the troops.
I am not a Democratic Party partisan, having voted for Nader in the last two presidential elections. This is a different game were in now boys and girls. If you are considering voting third party in this election to send a message, I ask you to reconsider on a race by race basis. That’s what I am doing, and I am voting Democrat in virtually all races.
Wherever we can (and I mean “we” in the broadest possible context), let’s turn out the Republicans who have allied themselves with Bush’s failures and the corruption in the Republican-led Congress.
After the election, we can turn on each other like vicious dogs. So be it; that’s democracy.
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Imagine for a moment that tomorrow, John Binkowski, the Independence Party candidate in the 6th CD announces that he is supporting Patty Wetterling and urges his voters to follow him, stopping Michele Bachmann’s attempt to further her vision of apocalyptic theocracy.
Come on John. It will make you famous, and you won’t have a nut job representing you in Washington. And remember:
It’s not an election; it’s an intervention
–Loosestrife
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