HOLY SHIT!! Be honest...did you see this coming? This early?

[Doc Holliday]

68. As the primaries were getting into gear,

I told myself, "They've got nothing." Whistling past the graveyard, yeah. Hopeful, but unable to be cocky.

As things went on and on, the more the wanna-bees showed us, the more I felt (with some relief) that I was right. They've got nothing. Cain? Bachmann? Santorum? Newt? GoodHair? As Bugs Bunny was wont to say, "Ha-ha. It is to laugh."

Then they winnowed it down to one choice-- Mr. Rich Whiteguy, the NotObama.

And now? The vibe I'm seeing & hearing the most from the GOP noise machine is one of desperation.

Mitt is being Mitt; Ryan and his people are calling him "the Stench" (?), Obama is coming on strong and steady, and looking very Presidential, as they say. (Why shouldn't he? He's the President!) {{{ruffles & flourishes}}}

The wingnut segment of Media is searching desperately for anything even remotely resembling a faux pas or a "gotcha!" moment, even going so far as Rush devoting an undeserved amount of time bestowing his special brand of charm and wit on Madonna. A number of conservative bloggers (the dumber ones, the Rush parrots) have seized on her "black Muslim in the White House" joke as the truth finally coming out. The NotObama theme simply isn't gaining the traction that Central Command hoped it would, and now they've still got nothing. Nothing but a lot of teabillies who may or may not decide to hold their noses and vote for Romney. (Imagine the exploding heads. I ain't cleanin' that shit up!)

Don't think I'm becoming complacent, though....not for a minute. I've seen some ugly electoral shit in my life, and I'll fight it any way I can. The easy way (right this minute, at least) is to donate up and down the ticket....till it hurts.

It IS important, for so many reasons, that this country get bluer. I sometimes feel that we're poised on the knife edge of history, still trying to decide what the 21st Century is going to be like for America. I'm ready for the future... and I don't think that Mitt Romney is going to be the man who summons it.

It is my hope, backed by my wallet and whatever else is required, that Barack Obama is that man.

As for me, personally? I remember the words of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. in a telegram to the President immediately after Pearl Harbor:

"Name the battlefront. I am yours to command."

Less than six weeks to go. Bring it on.