| Check out that video! Does Tweety look like shit or what? He must have been up late tying one on with a show producer and whatever politico visited his show the night before, right? He reeks of hangover! I love the awful puffiness all over his face, and how it makes his expressions so different from his usual evening, well-rested, made-up look. He actually reminds me of my dad, another pathetic alcoholic who hates women.
And did you see how he treated John Capeheart, who is so very obviously gay? Oh yeah, his expression went from one of talking with the big boys to one of talking down to the little women. It was muy interesante to see that he holds gay men in the same contempt he holds women.
Okay, with that out of my system, let's talk 1948. Because Matthews brought it up. That little bit of history he discussed is true.
Everyone thought Dewey was going to win. The young, articulate, charismatic, good looking Governor of New York was slated to win. The press, with it's long habit of hubris was so convinced that some, starting ironically enough with The Chicago Tribune, pre-printed the results before the election was officially over. But they were wrong--Dewey did not win. Truman did, thanks to his quiet train campaign, and his rhetoric of "telling the truth." His voters told him to, "Give 'em hell, Harry," and he did.
Giving 'em hell is exactly what another group that sprang up this spring wants to do. Have you heard of Recreate '68? They got some attention during the primary campaign when several o-bots at various A-list community blogs began to try suggest that they needed to join that group if "Clinton stole the [primary] election." Funny, huh? Well, I've been following up a little with them this morning, and they seem like a legitimate, interested group that have a lot of activities planned for Denver. They're basically anti-war and anti-corporate protesters along the lines of those who protest things like the G-8 Summit. I'll definitely be watching them, and h/t to them, Tweety, and Dr. Socks for giving me the idea for something more in line with my interests and abilities.
Recreate '48 is a free idea I had for anyone who wants to push it. Of course we wait until after the Convention, but I hope it's become clear enough by now to some of you that our chances there are slim. Leadership Dems treat us worse and worse by the day. Their e-mails and other correspondence sound like a bunch bratty high school athlete's talking trash before a big game. They do not get it at all.
We do need to keep pushing the open convention angle into the press, and get the meme that it's not over out there. But we also need a fall-back plan, and I think Recreate '48 might be just the thing. It's not an organization as much as an idea. A selling point, if you will. Americans hate to be told what's going to happen, or how they should be or what they should do in general. Thwarting the will of the power structure has been a great American past time since the Revolutionary War. So a whispering campaign to recreate 1948 might be a useful technique.
It makes more sense that recreating '68, because '68 was a very scary Convention, with lots of violence and police brutality, and it was part of the reason Dems have the Dirty Fucking Hippie monkey on their back still, after 40 years. No, I think a quiet declination of Obama in the middle of a media orgasm-fest over him might be just the thing we need to teach these out of touch people a thing or two. Recreate '48's focus is on the election instead of the Convention. However it happens, Obama has to lose or we keep corrupt asshats like Brazile and Dean forever. We have to purge these Republicans and DINOs from our party, or the two major parties will be the same, and we will have no real choice. And choice is a bedrock Democratic value. It's worth protecting.
Cross-posted at Peacocks and Lilies. |
