How touching

I'm touched by the naivite of the liberal left blogging community, and their apparent shock that the election has been so close. First of all they were all dismayed when their pet candidate, John Dean, did so badly in the preliminaries (clue: the active and caring blog audience/community turns out to be smaller than they thought), and now they're shocked that the shitkicking redneck SUV drivers of America have voted for Bush again.

The republicans, you'd think they knew, haven't fielded a real candidate since Nixon, and have instead chosen a series of symbolic figureheads, designed to appeal to religious types and gas-guzzling fuel-swilling carbon dioxide producing working stiff SUV drivers. They hide the privelege behind cowboy boots and aw-shucks incoherence and it plays well, as it did with Reagan, with what Nixon called "the silent majority". If ever the phrase was apposite, it is now, when the self-referring, self-perpetuating blog community, reinforcing their own delusional world view, are so shocked at the swathe of red across middle America.

Meet the new boss, etc.

"Energy security," to the SUV crowd, plays as well as Mrs Thatcher's "Right to Buy" did to Essex Man. Seems to me the democrats need to fight harder and dirtier, to lose a lot more ground before they start winning the argument. They need to show pictures of burned Iraqi children and point out that the child died so that Americans could keep driving 4WD Monster Trucks.

Oh well. Four more years and all that.