I asked some of my more left-leaning friends to take part in a thought experiment entitled "What if Obama Loses?" It was not meant to poke anyone in the eye; I merely wanted to gauge their feelings on the subject. The possibility that the media's rampant cocooning has skewed every poll to show an unrepresentative slice of the electoral leanings weighs on me somewhat. On one hand, I wouldn't mind if this happened, because some people might learn a lesson from this and it would be a hell of a surprise.
On the other hand, lots of people are pinning their hopes and dreams on a win for the Democrats, and "real change." While the level of vitriol for McCain has not nearly been as high as it was for Bush in '04, and while Obama is a much stronger candidate than John Kerry ever could have dreamed of being, the possibility of him losing, with all of the polls showing an unsurmountable lead, seems remote at best and not actively considered by most.
Answers to my question ranged from "Kill myself to death" to "I'm not going to think about it." Quite a few of those surveyed expressed an absolute terror that McCain will die during his term and Palin will be elevated to President. I personally don't understand all of the hate for Palin, but I must confess I also haven't spent as much time poring over her Yahoo! account as others must have done.
Those who had this fear felt their lives would change drastically. They would be forced to get religion and attend mass daily to pray for the health and safety of our President to avoid the disaster of President Sarah Palin. How's that for liberalism? We don't want a female president unless she's our female president.
Some suggested that they would feel better about a McCain/Lieberman or McCain/Romney ticket winning. In some ways this makes sense: those men are pretty predictable. Palin, being an unknown and potentially unpredicatble quantity, gives them something besides their elation with Obama:
Fear.
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"How's that for liberalism? We don't want a female president unless she's our female president."
Yeah and what do you imagine they would have done to Colin Powell if he'd run with an R next to his name? It's all puppies and roses now that he's back on the reservation, but if he'd had the temerity to run as a conservative himself? Whooo-doggie!
Quite frankly, if more people actually read the Constitution and them demanded that Congress and the President actually stick to their duties as prescribed therin, we could all stop fretting so much over these elections. There used to be a class in high school called "civics" or "government." I wonder if they even bother to teach that anymore.
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