Republi-Karma

I've avoided writing about this election, because as it stands now, the election is about Obama and his skin color. The issues are almost irrelevant; even the polls are almost irrelevant. The current political climate is the perfect storm the Democrats could have hoped for.

But when the McCain campaign utilized Paris Hilton as an analog to Obama's purported governmental IQ and didn't realize that her mother was one of their donors, I couldn't help myself.

I realized there is only one plotline:

Obama can say anything he wants to and it won't impact him negatively. McCain, on the other hand, can't say anything that will help him.

I predict the McCainiacs will pull the race card about 2 weeks before Election Day, utilizing a ploy similar to what the Helms campaign did to Harvey Gantt in 1990. I can't picture exactly what tactic they would use, only that it would have to be something a lot more nefarious than white hands or even Willie Horton.

It also will entail a much greater risk; even if the tactic succeeds in throwing the election to McCain, the Republican party will be painted as racist for a generation.

I don't particularly believe this administration or the Republicans in general have been as bad as they have been made out to be. But I do believe that there seems to be some form of Divine retribution in play here for the kind of political climate that is undoubtedly their creation, at least from the 1994 elections but probably as far back as the Lee Atwater era. Karl Rove was just following in their footsteps.

Payback's a bitch. Only the whole country is gonna pay for this.