THE NOTION THAT MCCAIN WILL TAKE MICHIGAN AND OHIO IS CRAZY...
MICHIGAN AND OHIO HAVE SUFFERED THE MOST UNDER REPUBLICANS AND BUSH IN RECENT YEARS...
THE IDEA THAT MS.PALIN WILL "APPEAL" TO MICHIGAN VOTERS IGNORES THE FACT THAT GM IS A $10 STOCK NOW...AND THE AUTO INDUSTRY IS NEARLY BROKE BECAUSE OF HIGH HEALTH CARE AND COMMODITIES COSTS...BOTH OF WHICH SOARED UNDER BUSH.
ADDITIONALLY, THE SO CALLED "GUN NUT" CROWD IS NOT THAT PROMINENT IN LARGE STATES LIKE MICHIGAN AND OHIO...
MCCAIN IS LUMPING MICHIGAN AND OHIO IN WITH WYOMING AND NORTH DAKOTA...AS "GUN NUT LA LA LAND".
...NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH!! OK...SOME GUN NUTS...BUT NOT THAT MANY.
MICHIGAN AND OHIO HAVE LARGE URBAN CENTERS OF POPULATION...AND HAVE FAIRLY WELL EDUCATED POPULATIONS...AS WELL.
NOT TO MENTION ACTIVE PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS...IF NOT PRIVATE SECTOR UNIONS ANYMORE...
BOTH MICHIGAN AND OHIO ARE IN THE PROGRESSIVE MIDWEST TRADITION OF UPPER MIDWEST STATES LIKE WISCONSIN AND MINNESOTA...
NOT KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE....!!
NOW SOUTHERN OHIO ...AS I SAY "SOUTH OF BROAD STREET" IN COLUMBUS OHIO...IS PRETTY RED NECK... OHIO GOES RED NECK REAL FAST SOUTH OF BROAD STREET...
IT'S ALMOST AS IF SOUTHERN OHIO HAS THE DIASPORA OF KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE MIGRANTS... PROBABLY FROM THE OLD DAYS WHEN AUTO PLANTS ABOUNDED IN THE AREA.
ONE OF THE CURIOUS ASPECTS OF THIS ELECTION IS THAT THE POOR AND UNEDUCATED ARE VOTING WITH WALL STREET AND THE FAT CATS IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY...
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS NOW THE PARTY OF THE POOR, RURAL BUBBAS, THE WHITE AND THE STUPID AND/OR "RELIGIOUS"...!!
(LET HISTORIANS FIGURE THAT ONE OUT!!)
AND THE DEMOCRATS HAVE BECOME THE PARTY OF MOST "URBANITES" AND THE INTELLECTUAL ELITE!!
BUT...I HAVE A HUNCH THAT BUBBA IS "ON TO" THE REPUBLICANS THIS CYCLE...
BUBBA JUST MAY NOT "HAVE ENOUGH GAS" IN HIS TANK... TO PUT THIS MCCAIN-PALIN "BIG OIL TICKET" IN OFFICE..!!
LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY ....YA THINK?
AND THE USUAL BORN AGAIN RELIGIOUS BULLSHIT MAY NOT WORK IT'S MAGIC FOR REPUBLICANS IN THIS CYCLE...AS WELL.
BUBBA HAS BEEN SERIOUSLY OFFENDED BY BUSH'S $4 GAS FOR HIS FORD F-150...
AND EVEN PUTTING A CLUELESS "HOCKEY MOM" IN THE OVAL OFFICE...TO RUN THE WORLD...IS NOT LIKELY TO PULL BUBBA INTO THE MCCAIN COLUMN THIS TIME.
OK... LET'S PUT IT THIS WAY...
IF MCCAIN CARRIES MICHIGAN AND OHIO...??
HE DAMN WELL DESERVES TO BE PRESIDENT!!
BUT HE DOESN'T...
AND HE WON'T.
