Nobodyspecial: Don't Vote Obama -- If you want some crazy-ass far-right extremist running the U.S.

[booley]

28. sorry but you got that backwards

"The "Bush = (insert Democrat's name)" equation has failed miserably and with devastating consequences."

I was there at the election too. And again and again I heard the meme of how Kerry was better then Bush. Not perfect. Not even all that different. Btu somehow less objectionable.

And yet that didnt' push enough people over to Kerry's side either.

And the same with Gore. Sure he sucks in many areas for progressives but he's better then any conservative, right?

And yet in both cases the votes were close enough for Bush to squeak through despite being a clearly crappy president. People weren't just saying that the candidates seemed the same, candidates did seem the same and the only difference the left could come up with was their guy sucked less.

Now compare that to obama in 2008. He didn't just say how McCain would be a bad president, Obama made the case that he wasn't just not as bad as McCain but he was the best candidate over all, a break from the status quo. Ironically this caused the disapointment when he ended up being very quo with the status.

In short, the first elections we lost because we made it about the opposition and third one succeeded because it was about OUR candidate.

The OP's argument only works on people who plan on voting for Obama no matter what. And even there it's shaky. Certainly it's intellectually dishonest and insulting. So how th ehell is it suppose dot work with anybody still sitting on the fence?

The reason why what you suggest for Obama in 2012 wont' work is Obama in 2008.