Braying Jackass (in elephant’s ears)

It’s September, and time for Democrats across our fine nation to panic and wail. Waaaah! Elections are hard! Run! Flee from the wrath of Giblets!

Your Humble Blogger remains cautiously optimistic. There are still lots of paths to losing, but the only thing that has been ruled out is the highly unlikely scenario that Barack Obama would win in a walkover, maintaining a double-digit lead for the two months between the conventions and the election, and could spend the bulk of that time heading up the legislative campaigns. That would have been nice. But no, it turns out that we have an election on our hands.

I don’t have any particular advice for Sen. Obama. I think he’s doing OK, and he seems to have a better grasp on winning elections than I do. Unlike John Kerry, who did an impressive job in the 2004 primaries, Sen. Obama did not benefit from having his opponents largely self-destruct. And he won. I suspect he is fully capable of winning even if John McCain runs a vicious and dishonest campaign. Continues to run such a campaign. Because—nothing against Sen. McCain, or against vicious and dishonest campaigns, which are a glorious part of the history of our fine nation, but damn.

So. David S. Bernstein, over at the Boston Phoenix Talking Politics blog, mocks McCain’s Super Powers. While I repeat that I have no advice for Sen. Obama, I do advise lefty and anti-Republican bloggers and writers to abuse John McCain specifically on his braggadocio. The image of Sen. McCain as old, cranky, out of touch and economically incompetent is already pretty solidly out there. I’d like to paint that with a nice layer of braying jackass. I mean, come on. He’ll catch Osama bin-Laden, but he won’t tell anybody how? Bullshit. That’s the kind of boasting that doesn’t make you look strong, it makes you look weak.

Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,
-Vardibidian.