No-vada

Tonight half the people I follow on Twitter were tweeting the Nevada Senate debate between Harry Reid and Sharron Angle.  The other half were tweeting updates on the progress of the paint drying on their walls.  The second half were having more fun.

From what I can gather from the tweets, Sherwin-Williams dries faster than Benjamin Moore but not as evenly.

Oh, and Harry Reid made his play for his core constituency, moderate morticians and CPAs with early bedtimes, while Angle did what Angle does, spout off about whatever pops into her head without listening to what she’s saying or thinking about what it means.

At one point, NBC’s Chuck Todd tweeted, “Angle didn't really explain very well how eliminating Dept. of Education would work.”

But Angle doesn’t have to explain.  She doesn’t have to explain anything.  All she has to do is show her potential voters she’s as incoherently angry at everything and everybody they hate as they are.  This is the year of Republican Revenge and all they want is to bring the temple crashing down around their ears in order to enjoy the sight of their enemies being crushed in the rubble.  That anger is what’s bringing them out to vote.

Reid, on the other hand, like too many Democrats, apparently thinks that all that’s needed to bring out his voters is their sense of civic responsibility, which is why he puts so much effort into reminding people of their second least favorite high school social studies teacher, the one who couldn’t bring himself to get mad at students for not paying attention because he bored himself too.

Of course, it is our civic responsibility, not just those of us living in Nevada, but all of us in every state to get out there and vote against those who want to pull down the temple for the sheer satisfying mean spite of it.

The object is not to save Harry Reid or even Russ Feingold, who deserves to be saved.  The object is to save ourselves and everybody, including Republicans, from the likes of Sharron Angle.

Comments

[Linkmeister]

I agree with your last sentence and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

[Bill Altreuter]

In a meaningful sense this is a failure in the way that politics is discussed in the media. The focus is on who's winning or losing-- the so-called horse race aspect-- and seldom on the details of actual governance. On a deeper level this is a problem with democracy as a system of governance: as Mencken said "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." We think that if we want something enough we'll get it. We will win in Iraq if our will is strong enough; we will balance the budget without cutting government services if we believe we can-- all of that. What we seem to be looking for in the people we pick to run our government are people who are really good at wishing hard for things. Or praying for them, which amounts to the same thing.

I'll say this for kings-- they don't leave their subjects with that particular illusion.

[calling all toasters]

Benjamin Moore is the shit. It also has double the charisma of Harry Reid.