Lefties Charge McCain With Wanting to Reinstate Draft; Remain Mum About What's Taking So Long For Their Previously Promised Bush Mandated Draft
*YAWN* Isn't this meme getting a bit tired?
I mean, if you're young enough not to have heard the exact same charge made (and subsequently proven wrong by, you know, actual events for what those are worth) from the last election cycle, how likely are you to vote anyway?
The fact is a goodly proportion of America's political left needs to perpetuate these themes of impending persecution because otherwise their raving about the loss of their freedoms rings increasingly hollow by the fact of their own continued uninhibited freedom. Republicans are supposed to be setting up concentration camps for them and such. And yet... even when Republicans win, those camps never seem to appear. Well then maybe they're about to draft them all and send them to die in foreign wars! That's the ticket! And if you haven't drafted them yet, it's obviously because you're waiting for the NEXT Republican to do the dirty deed.
The question is how long normal people keep listening to the people who keep predicting the same thing no matter how long it doesn't come true. I have a feeling this one will be a wee bit less effective this election, and after that it will start to drive votes in the opposite direction. How many people want to vote for the "End of the World" Party, after their second predicted end date fails? And how many more don't want to be associated with those kind of loons?
I mean, if you're young enough not to have heard the exact same charge made (and subsequently proven wrong by, you know, actual events for what those are worth) from the last election cycle, how likely are you to vote anyway?
The fact is a goodly proportion of America's political left needs to perpetuate these themes of impending persecution because otherwise their raving about the loss of their freedoms rings increasingly hollow by the fact of their own continued uninhibited freedom. Republicans are supposed to be setting up concentration camps for them and such. And yet... even when Republicans win, those camps never seem to appear. Well then maybe they're about to draft them all and send them to die in foreign wars! That's the ticket! And if you haven't drafted them yet, it's obviously because you're waiting for the NEXT Republican to do the dirty deed.
The question is how long normal people keep listening to the people who keep predicting the same thing no matter how long it doesn't come true. I have a feeling this one will be a wee bit less effective this election, and after that it will start to drive votes in the opposite direction. How many people want to vote for the "End of the World" Party, after their second predicted end date fails? And how many more don't want to be associated with those kind of loons?
Posted by Doug Williams on
Wednesday August 20, 2008 at 11:50pm
