Baiting the Base
All hell is breaking lose in this Presidential election campaign. The fires are being fueled by John McCain and Sarah Palin's increasingly desperate tactics. Their campaign rallies and television advertising are slandering Barack Obama and working the rabid right base into a frenzy of anger towards the Democrats.
Conservative icon William F. Buckley once said, "You know, I've spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks." Well, William F. Buckley is dead and the kooks are running rampant in the Republican Party and in the comments threads on The Dallas Morning News Opinion blog. Check out Tod Robberson's post titled "McCain and Palin's lynch-mob tactics" for evidence. The rabid right commenters are vehemently protesting in ways that only lend support to Robberson's thesis.
On the other hand, perhaps there is hope for American public discourse. Today, Christopher Buckley, the son of conservative icon William F. Buckley, announced his support for Barack Obama, in large part because of the kind of campaign John McCain is running.
"John McCain has changed. He said, famously, apropos the Republican debacle post-1994, 'We came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us.' This campaign has changed John McCain."Sadly for John McCain and for America, that is *not* change we can believe in.
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