The Politico’s Ben Smith passes along an email from a Republican consultant about a recently conducted focus group in Michigan:
The two most unreal moments of my professional life of watching focus groups:
54 year-old white male, voted Kerry ‘04, Bush ‘00, Dole ‘96, hunter, NASCAR fan…hard for Obama said: “I’m gonna hate him the minute I vote for him. He’s gonna be a bad president. But I won’t ever vote for another god-damn Republican. I want the government to take over all of Wall Street and bankers and the car companies and Wal-Mart run this county like we used to when Reagan was President.”
The next was a woman, late 50s, Democrat but strongly pro-life. Loved B. and H. Clinton, loved Bush in 2000. “Well, I don’t know much about this terrorist group Barack used to be in with that Weather guy but I’m sick of paying for health insurance at work and that’s why I’m supporting Barack.”
I felt like I was taking crazy pills. I sat on the other side of the glass and realized…this really is the Apocalypse. The Seventh Seal is broken and its time for eight years of pure, delicious crazy….
If this is an indication of how the electorate feels this year, there’s nothing McCain can do at this point to save himself.
H/T: The Moderate Voice
October 15th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I hear a growing number of voices crying out for a 2nd American Revolution since the current “systems,” political, economic, etc. appear to be unfixable due to an entrenched power structure of elite class Americans, HUGE corporations and wealthy/powerful special-interest groups.
Believing that the vested interests would use their created bureaucracies to murder as many citizens as necessary to maintain their positions, the only method I can envision for any meaningful change is a military coup via a patriotic officer corps.
When I read about the Air Force slip-up sending the nukes through the skies I wondered if that was a dry-run to ascertain the possibility of a military coup being feasible.
Meanwhile, a huge number of America’s working-poor citizens continue to compete with many millions of illegal invaders for jobs, housing, health care and other facets of life; including being forced in some areas to exist within a 2nd-world culture with all the negatives that entails while our elite class, unaffected by most of those negatives continues to spit upon America’s underclass.
The anger is rising and a day of reckoning may yet come.
October 15th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
McCain is just collateral damage in the blow back for Bush. As a brand of conservatism the GOP is dead in the water. I will never vote for them again.