Just as friends don’t let friends drive drunk, we should declare right here, right now that as LGBT people we won’t let our friends vote McCain. At least not without a fight.
I understand that voting is a personal thing, but it is critical that we let our friends, family and co-workers know how much a McCain/Palin administration would hurt us and our families.
Its lines like this that make me more than a little gay for Markos Moulitsas, founder of Daily Kos:
Many people will warn against “getting complacent”. I like to approach this potential problem differently — we have a chance to rip out the GOP’s jugular. We can throw them an anvil. We can kick them while they’re down. No matter the metaphor, the underlying meaning remains — we can destroy the Republicans. Now’s not the time to slack, it’s the time to pick things up. We’ve got them in a near rout. Let’s destroy them.
In his post Markos is warning people to expect a scorched Earth wave of negative attacks from the McCain campaign against Obama because of Obama’s rising poll numbers with less than 30 days left in the campaign. In the attacks we can expect McCain to question Obama’s patriotism, religious faith, and experience. You can also expect to see the return of Rev. Wright, madrasahs, Bill Ayers and anything else McCain can think to pull out of his magic hat of political distraction to keep from talking about the issues that matter to voters. Nearly 100% of McCain’s ad spending is devoted to attacking Obama.
What you want see from the McCain campaign is something like this:
I get that negative attacks are a part of the political game and that they can be quite effective. But McCain’s campaign strategy of “attack, attack, attack” is much like the GOP chant “drill, baby, drill.” It is a whole lot of smoke and mirrors that doesn’t address the issues at hand and fails to deliver the change that we need now.
She’s a spunky one that Sarah Palin. Unfortunately, not only is she out of touch with the issues facing most Americans, she is also out of the loop in decisions made by the McCain campaign.
Check out this clip from Fox News in which Palin shares her “yes we can” reaction to reading about the decision by McCain to pull out of Michigan.
On a side note, notice that the reporter mistakenly labels Palin as the Democratic VP candidate. As if.
We know that Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house, but what does she think of LGBT people? The Human Rights Campaign wondered the same thing and its Senior Media Center Manager, Michael Cole to Alaska to investigate.
No one would ever expect John McCain to win Ms Congeniality, but during the presidential debate he cemented his reputation as the Grumpiest Member of the Senate. He didn’t even try to hide his contempt for Barack Obam and refused to even look at him. That’s so not the kind of president we need negotiating with world leaders.
Check out this compilation edited by Jed Lewison of McCain’s most nostril-flaring moments. Cindy McCain should consider spending some of her cash on getting McCain some anger management classes.
Andrew Sullivan appeared along with Naomi Klein and Will.I.Am on Real Time with Bill Maher and eviscerated Sarah Palin. Here is a taste:
She is a farce. It is a joke. It is absurd. It is something [McCain's pick] that should dismissed out of hand as the most irresponsible act any candidate has any made.
Elizabeth Birch, longtime LGBT activists and former Executive Director of the Human Rights Campaign talks about the stark differences between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain on LGBT issues.