Wow…all I can say is holy shit, they have got some crazies.

It would be a perfect opportunity for the GOP to strike a line under their past now, to accept the hit they’re going to take and to mark this as a new drive for pursuing equality and diversity without prejudice. However I can’t help but see this woman scapegoated and the party using the Bush effect to blinker themselves.

Republicans hate Obama, Democrats hate McCain, but they’re all united in their hatred for Ashley “B” Todd. Seriously, as soon as she gets out of jail she needs to emigrate… although not to Africa for obvious reasons.

MatGB,

This is the first US election I have taken a, frankly unhealthy, interest in.

I do not think that Ms Todd is a ‘turning point’ in this election. Though she may well be a cypher for the desperation that committed Republicans feel. Life’s a bitch.

There have been numerous attempts by both sides to land a knock out punch.

McCain, or surrogates, on Obama:

Ayers
Rezko
Muslim, etc, etc…

Obama, or surrogates, on McCain:

Age
Cancer
VP pick, etc, etc…

None of that has worked.

You and I may know that Sarah Palin is a complete scientific idiot, indeed quite a lot of Americans know that too, but her base thinks research on fruit flies is a laugh and a joke. For an angry Americans’ view of that idiocy, look here:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/10/sarah_palin_ignorant_and_antis.php

What has done for the McCain campaign, in my opinion, has been their dripping negativity. To be clear, the more folk saw of Barak Obama, the less likely a Palinesque charge of ‘palling about with terrorists’ was likely to do anything other than boomerang right back at yah. “Wink”

And their campaign has been caught between the apparent sincerity of John McCain at the charity fundraiser:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/17/obama-mccain-new-york-al-smith-dinner

and this sort of shit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH0xzsogzAk

There seems to me to be no difference between what Obama says he is and what he would actually say to your face. Whereas McCain seems to fall into another camp altogether. It is that which more or less guarantees Obama a landslide.

“It would be a perfect opportunity for the GOP to strike a line under their past now”

But who will do this with genuine conviction? Strategists and the like may say it is a must but who will provide the substantive impetus behind such a move. I would like to know.

As i said, I don’t know if I see it happening