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Edited on Wed Nov-05-08 09:48 PM by NanceGreggs
Allow me to be – well, perhaps not politically incorrect, so much as politically inappropriate.
And I promise this will be the last time – well, kinda sorta maybe.
But I just wanted to express my gratitude to some of the most truly undeserving of kudos among us for their contribution – albeit inadvertent – to an Obama victory.
Thanks to George W. Bush for being so incompetent, ineffective and hated a Republican leader that he tarnished the GOP Brand™ for decades to come – if not forever. Honestly, George, we’ll never know how many citizens were prompted to vote Democratic as a result of your tenure in office – but I have a gut feeling it was a substantial amount of voters.
Thanks to John McCain for being such a total prick, even his former admirers were more than willing to bail – and for being so inept, even the most loyal of the GOP were willing to publicly say WTF!?! - followed by an indignant "I am SO outta here!!!"
Thanks to the powers-that-be behind the McCain campaign, whose decisions at every level – from “suspending” the campaign to “fix” the economic crisis that didn’t exist a few scant days before it did exist, to trotting out the Ayers story when it was more than obvious no one was interested – seem to have been deliberately crafted to ensure an Obama landslide.
Thanks to the screaming, knuckle-dragging bigots who made spectacles of themselves at McCain/Palin rallies, thereby ensuring that decent people in your own party would want to distance themselves from your ranks by voting for That One instead of one your own.
Thanks to Sarah Palin, who, despite her refusal to be available to answer questions from the media, exploited every opportunity to demonstrate her total cluelessness in public settings, thereby hammering nails into the GOP coffin with an aptitude and enthusiasm that will be remembered for decades as being unparalleled in political history.
Thanks to the bought-and-paid-for Republican pundit-idiocy for being willing, day after miserable day, to smile into the camera and – with a completely straight face – extol the fitness-for-office and obvious leadership qualities of candidates whose only claims to fame were quickly whittled down to having been a POW and/or the ability to see Russia from their front yard.
Thanks to all of the outrageous misinformation meted out by the RW radio and TV show hosts whose screeds were SO ridiculous, even a lot of their own dumber-than-dumb, overly-inbred audience members were actually prompted to think for a change – and chose to vote for “Change” as a result.
Thanks to all of the media whores whose constant pronouncements that there was still a closer-than-close horserace in play LONG after it was obvious that the, ahem, “Dark Horse” was about to canter across the finish-line while his toothless, glue-factory-bound opponent was gasping for breath. I appreciate your willingness to destroy whatever slim credibility you had left going into this race by insisting that the dead horse still had a chance – as long as you were beating it, twenty-four-seven, into a semblance of life. You are now officially the gift that will keep on giving for decades, as fewer viewers take you seriously in election cycles to come.
Yes, thanks to ALL of you: the wing-nuts, the mouth-breathers, the stark-raving-mad lunatics that NO ONE wants to be associated with, regardless of party affiliation - the but-he's-a-radical-Muslim who-palled-around-with-terrorists crowd who contributed to pushing so many citizens into voting for sanity over the delusional ravings of people like yourselves.
I won’t say we couldn’t have done it without you – because we could have, and most assuredly would have. But your efforts have been duly noted, and I’m hoping we can count on you in ’12 – and beyond.
(EDITED TO ADD: My sig line should now be in BOLD, and underlined: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA - (Coming Soon to a White House near you!!!)
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