Wednesday, July 02, 2008

The importance of Election Day

Please, people, reserve your final judgements of all of our candidates until General Election Day. It is not healthy in a democracy to claim victory or trash candidates prematurely, as it corrupts the decision making process of more considerate voters. Take, for example, these blog comments from a July, 2007 Marc Ambinder (Atlantic Monthly) blog post:

Who would want a clueless person like McCain to run the country? Perhaps McCain should ask illegal immigrants to donate money and provide marches to support him.

It is absolutely ironic that in 2004, McCain was identified as the middle-of-the-road, "thinking man's" Republican. Even more so, he was the iconic war hero and the anti-Bush. Four years later he's so closely identified with Bush, he seems like a fawning protege, and he's sinking in his mentor's leaky and rudderless boat. What a political moron he is. Thank god he has no chance of being President, and that both of these incompetent men will be gone from public service in 18 months.

Well, you know the old adage about lipstick and pigs. Truth is that it doesn't matter who puts the lipstick on the pig, or who tells the media about the pig wearing the lipstick, in the end all you have is a pig.

The problem is the candidate, his lack of appeal to the republican party, and a media that has stopped covering him as he "tries" to discover his republican soul.

The formal announcement will come before Xmas that the pig is out.

Poor McCain, He's very wrong on both issues. The war in Iraq and the illegal alien invasion. How can he be so wrong? He's certainly way out of touch with Americans. It's a funeral for his ambitions.

C'mon Mc Cain, drink the kool-aid and give your campaign cash to Fred T. Sooner the better!!

These types of statements prematurely paint candidates still on the campaign trail; and, they have in the past disqualified third party candidates early on, especially those who had serious and unique issue positions.

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