Bad News, Daddy.

Hi Daddy,

 

In short, I have bad news.  I believe that I will be trying to get Barak Obama elected in 2008.

 

I choose these words carefully, in that I neither "support" Obama, nor do I think he will make a good President.  However, I have become convinced, not in small part due to Adams' survey of economists (see link below), that McCain will be significantly worse, especially for the economy.

 

I still believe (and will defend aggressively) my right to own guns, my belief that government is way too big, and that the world needs a policeman.  However, this election is not about how fast the North Pole is melting or whether we get Bin Laden, it's about fixing the economy.  Because if we don't do that, nothing else is going to matter. 

 

I am still first-and-foremost a Republican, and as I stated, I plan to fight the good fight when it comes to Republican issues.  Unfortunately, McCain is simply the wrong guy, and Obama is the only one that has a chance of beating him.  I wish we had put someone better forward in the primary.

 

McCain and Palin are running a terrific campaign.  Democrats don't want to believe this, but attack politics, whether based on truth or lies, is extremely effective at moving large blocks of voters in this Country, and McCain/Palin are executing this strategy relatively flawlessly.  Furthermore, Democrats continue to fall into the trap of pointing out the factual and moral flaws of McCain and Palin, not realizing that most of the country doesn't care. 

 

Given the fact that I want Obama to be elected in 2008, I hope that Obama quickly changes his tactics.  Specifically, I hope he moves away from trying to prove he's the "better candidate" and instead adopts a more politically driven strategy.  By "political", I mean he needs to lie, cheat, bite, scream, swear, punch and start shooting people in the face who stand in his way, friend or foe.  If his 4th quarter aggressiveness is limited to explaining why he's right and McCain is wrong, he's going to lose the election.  And if that happens, we're all screwed, because however good or bad it will be during an Obama Presidency, it will be a lot worse under McCain.

 

Sorry you waited so long to have a son, only to hear he'll be voting for a liberal.  Maybe you'll have better luck with Michael.

 

Scott Adams' survey:

 

http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/dilbert_survey_of_economists/

 

 

 

GC.