The left brings up Terri constantly so why do they fret?
Why are none of them running on Terry Schiavo? Why so few joint appearances with El Presidente? Why the scattered, johnny-come-lately GOP candidate admissions that maybe, just maybe, Donald Rumsfeld should finally be fired as Secretary of Defense?
And they go a step further, this time riling me up personally. They bring up the coward who exposed himself (not in THAT sense!) in front of me and cohorts years ago, Jimmy Webb, further proof of mindless bias.
Meanwhile, Webb's direct, confident final appeal hits his marine experience first, goes soldier-straight for the jugular on GOP failure without once mentioned their party. Then he brings his entire campaign together with: "Bottom line: they're not fighting for you. I will." He closes by asking for your vote in a rather classy way, notable for two reasons. For one, it's something he's been profiled and not having an easy time doing, not a real gladhanding politician born to it. For another, it's actually a tenet of George W. Bush to always ask for your vote, which seems like common sense maybe lost in the distancing media age.
Politi-flicks: Closing Arguments
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But what next week's election seems likely to illustrate is that the laws of thermodynamics -- in particular, the one that states that for every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction -- have not been repealed. Upstate New York, the Philadelphia suburbs, Connecticut's tweedy enclaves, and the Microsoft precincts surrounding Seattle seem poised to show that they've had it with the party that restricts funding for stem cell research. In Arizona and Colorado, secular libertarians have grown estranged from the party that invested the power of the federal government in the cause of keeping Terri Schiavo in a vegetative state. In Ohio, voters look to be revolted not just by the corruption of their state and national Republican parties but also by the party's indifference to the collapse of the state's industrial economy.
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