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News Roundup

Posted by Little Miss Know it All

September 25, 2007 |

Several of you have asked about my thoughts on the crackpot from the mideast speaking at the UN.  Here’s why I haven’t blogged about it yet–I refuse to increase his fame or his stature by talking about him.  The crackpot’s gotten enough attention already.  Oh, and I call him a crackpot, instead of a nutjob, because I think that would an insult to nutjobs everywhere.  ;)

 Okay, on to other news.  Polls are showing that independent voters are strongly leaning democrat.  In KY, in our governor’s race, things are looking up.  Democrat Steve Beshear (who was my first political job, by the way, in his 1996 Senate race) is ahead by 20 some odd points over incumbent Ernie Fletcher, EVEN AMONG EVANGELICALS.  This is big, this is HUGE in the state of Kentucky.  Fletcher is an ordained pastor.  He’s their boy.  And if it can happen in the bible belt, it can happen everywhere.

 I noticed today the stories about the GOP shunning minority events.  I know why–they see precious resources (money and time) being used on groups who aren’t going to vote for them.  But it marks a shift.  The GOP spent the past 15 years courting African American churches and the Hispanic vote.  In this GOP free for all, you can see where the party is headed.  Chaos.  There is no common voice, reminding them of long term strategies to be taken advantage of.  The GOP put millions of dollars into African American churches, luring them away from being solidly democrat.  Looks like that’s all falling apart.  Interesting indeed!  Of course, we Democrats were in the same state 8 years ago.  Welcome to our nightmare.  Hopefully they won’t wake up too soon!

That brings me to another topic…the early attention to political manueverings and party policies for the election next year has me worried.  Too many negatives are being brought to light now, too much time for fatigue and innoculation.  Too much time to cover issue bad to the GOP now, so that when next October rolls around the average voter will be saying “Not that again, didn’t we already deal with that?” and “When will you guys stop whining and let it go already?”  While its fun for us politicos to have this much election interest, its not actually good for us.  While I’m tired of BritneyLindseyParisOJ, I’m ready for a breather, for a little more attention to the statewide races. 


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