I realize, given the build up to the Exorcist-like music, that I’m supposed to take this video very, very seriously. So why can’t I stop laughing?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZs8k4pJcyk[/youtube]
Oh, the drama! Oh, the horror! And… Oh, the typical threatening language and name calling.
These constant Armageddon scenarios are beginning to remind me of the crazy guy in New York standing on the street corner shouting that the end is near. I’m also not sure how this “we are doomed” strategy translates into a Republican/Conservative victory. The message seems to be… Be afraid, be very afraid. Which is a predictable tactic from the right , but I’m not sure it’s effective – especially since, yet again, it’s presented without a single solution.
How long can Republicans/Conservatives run on the sky is falling without offering a way to keep it from crashing down on our heads? And if they don’t come up with a detailed plan, aren’t they basically running on the platform that the Bush years were okay, that health care is great the way it is, that Iraq and Afghanistan were rolling along just fine, and that we should have left the economy alone? As they mock “change” without offering an alternative plan, aren’t they running on “no change?”
And if they don’t develop a platform that consists of something more than Obama is the devil and Democrats are his handmaidens then the debates preceding the 2010 elections should be interesting.