The Democratic measures alienate Republicans, and the Republican measures look like more of the same. There is no maverick ideology that voters can get behind, and there's no way of predicting just what a maverick is going to say next.
That's the problem when you reject the brand of your party, and it leaves McCain and Palin in this late stage of the campaign wandering around the mesa like two unbranded calves - mavericks all alone and lost.
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Pendulum swings, AI. A steady diet of Goldwater does no one any good. Any diet at all of McGovern-Carter is a disaster though. God help us.
Amen to that. There'll be a steady diet of wandering in the desert for a while. With or without water.
But, getting back to the philosophical point at hand, I still think ideology can, and does play a role in the politics of a major party -- whether you like it, or not. Just running on some vague, undefined platform, with no coherent, larger view -- in other words, just reacting to events and personalities -- does not cut the mustard. Maybe in normal times one can get around that, but not now.
Have to think on that. Not sure. Tough times are always and the tougher ones are probably when a group has to improvise more, not less, just by definition.
Holding tight to ideology (continuing to make vacuum tubes, say) isn't all good, but one can lose his way if improvisation becomes a free-for-all.
One ends up like Chile with a tidal wave of clusterfucks starting up overnight instead of the slow steady descent to the toilet we Americans know.
OK, Obama would be another toilet dive, but we're learning from Chile.
We need Pinochet up here...
For one, we need smarter people running things. I'm dismayed at the level of idiocy that has permeated the powers-that-be. It all has a fin de règne quality to it.
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