"Gloves Off", Are You Kidding Me?

I don't generally doubt the Republican party when they come out and say they're going to smear or "swift-boat" someone into oblivion to win an election. But this time I'm definitely a little ambivalent because I just don't buy it anymore.

Referring to Barack Obama and this campaign, Republicans in the McCain camp continue to smirk like the Cheshire Cat about how they're "gonna' take the gloves off," and "take it to him" as if they've been holding their political punches all this time. Somehow we're meant to believe that they've been playing "nice" until now and that now, NOW, that Obama has (as of tonight) a 14 point lead in the polls the Republicans are finally going to take "the gloves off" and show him who's boss. People scream it from their rallies "take it to him," "attack," and more directly threatening things to boot. Yet somehow we're supposed to believe that Republicans have kept their powder dry for just this moment, for just this fight. In fact, today the McCain campaign actually said that they had the Obama campaign "right where we want them" and McCain himself boasted that he was going to "whip his you-know-what" in the debate tonight. Apparently Barack Obama is right there waiting to be hit with that, presumably, devasting slime-laden, false, invented, horrific, super-duper-double-secret-uber political electoral punch that no mortal human candidate can possibly withstand. . .enough to make any sane human recoil in horror and cry for mercy at the mere sight of it. . .enough to terriffy an "uppity" candidate and his Demoractic party into surrender before it's even thrown. As Chris Matthews put it last night: McCain is looking for that killer "right hook."

So I've finally got to ask: what killer right hook? What new punch? What are you possibly going to throw that you haven't already, you miserable excuse for a human-being? John McCain and the Republican party's dispicable, vile, hate-filled, race-bating, torch-the-earth campaign have ALREADY thrown out every single imagineable attack they possibly can against Barack Obama. Through the course of this campaign, the Republicans have already accused Obama of being (let's recap): a muslim; a terrorist; a baby killer; a child molestor; a plagiarist; a religious radical; a traitor; a madrasa student; an arab; a sleeper; a pawn; an elitist; a communist; a socialist; a '60s radical; all talk; vacuous; contemptuous; and corrupt. And I'm sure I'm missing several. All of these accusations are down right fabricated lies, lies intended only to smear a candidate so that the Republican party can retain control of the White House and thereby hide its sins and continue them. Yet throughout this whithering barrage of slander, Barack Obama has shown himself to be honerable, poised, intelligent and Presidential.

So I ask again, what pray tell can McCain and you Republicans possibly attack Obama with now that you have not already tried? What can you possibly invent that have you haven't already used? Or are you just acting like a neighborhood bully in the vain hope that the mere threat of it will cower your opponents. I have to ask: do you really think you scare us? Do you really think voters, supporters, or the Obama campaign are going to sit back and cower because you threaten that somehow you've got some new "super attack" to level against this candidate. Think we're going to run home and cry to mommy because you said "no more Mr. Nice Guy"? Do you even think there's something more vile than what you've already tried? Are you completely out of your collective minds???

There's virtually nothing the GOP can launch against Obama anymore that they haven't already used. So, to quote the worst President ever, "bring it on" because everyone knows you're just puffing. Not because you won't try, but because you've got nothing left, no attacks, no ideas, no policies. We've already seen your worst punch countless times. What's really terrifying the Republican party and making them this desperate and vile is watching two of the three pillars of their past 40 years of Presidential victories disappearing in front of their very eyes: namely the culture wars and supply-side economics (forthcoming blog on this soon). And the closer they get to that defeat the more desperate they're become and the more they'll screach because it's worked in the past. What's really happening here is that someone's finally turned and stood up to the bully face-on; someone finally punched him right in the face. And the Republican party doesn't know what to do about it anymore because deep down, all bullies are cowards. . . .