Comments on: Come on, vote already Pennsylvania!! http://cactussoup.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/come-on-vote-already-pennsylvania/ Pointed commentary -- in a tasty broth!!! Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:27:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Scott-O-Rama http://cactussoup.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/come-on-vote-already-pennsylvania/#comment-84 Scott-O-Rama Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:09:05 +0000 http://cactussoup.wordpress.com/?p=13#comment-84 How about we send Hillary and Obama into a timeout until they can behave and put up a Gore/Edwards ticket in the meantime? How about we send Hillary and Obama into a timeout until they can behave and put up a Gore/Edwards ticket in the meantime?

]]> By: William http://cactussoup.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/come-on-vote-already-pennsylvania/#comment-77 William Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:05:49 +0000 http://cactussoup.wordpress.com/?p=13#comment-77 I'm with you! What I find almost painfully ironic about this whole business is that we liberals are known to go into spasms of self-congratulation because we're so doggone open-minded. We can appreciate both sides of an argument, we can understand the point of view of the minority, we can evaluate public policy on the basis of reasonability and not reach snap judgments on the basis of ideological rigor. But in the next breath, we say "If Obama wins, I'm voting for McCain! If Clinton wins, I'm voting for Nader! If Nader wins, I'm going to Finland!" There's your open-minded, reasonable liberalism for you. There's your "big tent" for you, a phrase now so laughable it pains me to utter it. I don't get it. What happened to reasonability, to compromise, to the essential and inevitable give-and-take that is what really makes a republic function? Now it's "I don't like her clothes, they're FRUMPY, and if she wins I'm voting for Martin Bormann!" Are we really so egotistical, shallow and stupid as to think think that John McCain is preferable to Clinton or Obama? I fear so. I predict disaster. No, let me rephrase that - I dread a coming disaster, but I don't want to predict it. Yet. Sorry to drone! I’m with you!

What I find almost painfully ironic about this whole business is that we liberals are known to go into spasms of self-congratulation because we’re so doggone open-minded. We can appreciate both sides of an argument, we can understand the point of view of the minority, we can evaluate public policy on the basis of reasonability and not reach snap judgments on the basis of ideological rigor.

But in the next breath, we say “If Obama wins, I’m voting for McCain! If Clinton wins, I’m voting for Nader! If Nader wins, I’m going to Finland!”

There’s your open-minded, reasonable liberalism for you. There’s your “big tent” for you, a phrase now so laughable it pains me to utter it. I don’t get it. What happened to reasonability, to compromise, to the essential and inevitable give-and-take that is what really makes a republic function? Now it’s “I don’t like her clothes, they’re FRUMPY, and if she wins I’m voting for Martin Bormann!”

Are we really so egotistical, shallow and stupid as to think think that John McCain is preferable to Clinton or Obama? I fear so. I predict disaster. No, let me rephrase that - I dread a coming disaster, but I don’t want to predict it. Yet.

Sorry to drone!

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