I don’t put much stock in the puma claims. They’re beyond emotional about O’Bomber. We shall see.
“I don’t put much stock in the puma claims. They’re beyond emotional about O’Bomber. We shall see.”
Yeah but. Their votes are just marks on a sheet of paper, they do not retain the emotion behind them. I’m a stock trader, so please consider this example from my universe; which has nothing to do with electoral “voting” but OTOH has EVERYTHING to do with a different type of voting.
One party sells a stock because he thinks it’s done rising and wants to redeploy $$ elsewhere. Another party sells a stock because he can’t stand the pain seeing of it going down in price any further. Another party sells a stock because they need the money for an entirely differnt purpose. Another party buys a stock because he thinks it will rise in price. Another party sees the stock coughed up by the capitulating owner and cannot resist the bargain. Another party buys a stock because he sees the parking lot full of cars or he got great service using their product. And every one of those decisions can be right or wrong or both in the next 5 minutes or the next 6 months or the next 5 years. Every one of those individual decisions at the moment they are made influences the “price” of the stock. The stock market is continuous, generally. The election is obviously a one-time event in time.
The votes cast by the PUMAs individually and collectively do not bear the motivation(s) behind them. The vote cast by a hardened Dem for a Republican in clumsy error does not differ from a vote studiously cast by the purest Conservative alive.
Ergo, I believe we should welcome the PUMAs and welcome their disgust at their treatment by 0bamas’ thugs because the struggle at this point, in an election where not that many of us are all that thrilled with McCain, is to defeat the enemy, 0bama. We have common cause. After that war is won, if it CAN be won, we can engage in niceties and shades of meaning.
Respectfully,