Follow Through

2 Responses to “Follow Through”

1. DG writes
   October 16th, 2008 2:50 pm

   Interesting take, but “uninformed” seems to be a poor choice of words.

   McCain’s “shorthand” assumed a background familiarity with the litany of Freeper/wingnut charges against Obama. He never took the time to explain in detail what Acorn was doing, why Ayers should matter (in fact, he said he didn’t care about him!), what this phony outrage about the vote on “Born Alive” Act was based on. His statements were a gesture to the far right, not a case against Obama’s judgement. To claim that the most far-right, conspiratorial charges are issues that voters who aren’t “ill-informed” would care about is mistaking the echo chamber of far right politics for the general electorate.

   Many conservatives really do seem to have convinced themselves that their most uncompromising positions are in the mainstream, and can’t even bother to make a case for them. Maybe this election will be a wake-up call to the blinkered souls who seek to identify and purge RINOs and govern from the far right.

2. Rep in Cheatham Co. writes
   October 17th, 2008 1:13 pm

   “Undecided voters are, and undecided voters are, or so studies tell us, often astonishingly ill-informed.”

   Then they should fit perfectly with Obamanites!