Candidate Haiku #7
by W
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Listen closely, Senator:
"I'm a Democrat"
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This Tom Tomorrow cartoon captures a lot of my intuitions about the problem of choosing a candidate.
My basic intuition is that there is nothing to gain by being nice to the GOP. No matter what the Dem candidate says, Rove, Rush, O'Reilly, et al. will characterize him as a DANGEROUS TERRORIST-CODDLING POT-SMOKING SOCIALIST.
A lot of Democrats seem to have this political version of the battered-wife syndrome about the GOP and their media cronies: "If I only I were nicer and prettier, then he wouldn't beat me." Well guess what, Symbolic Battered Wife, it doesn't matter how nice you are. You could wake up every morning and bake him a cake and give him a Monica, and he would still be a jerk.
Jeez, I need to calm down. If only I could face the incipient dark night of fascism with the cool proletarian stoicism of my avatar.
Woody 
6:01:18 PM 
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