Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Be wery wery qwiat! I’m hunting PUMAs!
Do you remember back to the end of the primary season? That wonderful, wistful time when we had coalesced behind our candidate and were watching Hillary and Barack clawing at each other?
Do you remember towards the end, before the conventions, after it was clear that Barack was going to be the Dem’s nominee? Do you remember how many of the Hillary supporters, after her shabby and sexist treatment by the DNC and Obama, vowed that they would never vote for Obama? Do you remember how they formed a little group and became known as PUMAs?
With apologies to Pete Seeger:
Where have all the PUMAs gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the PUMAS gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the PUMAS gone?
Became conforming everyone?
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have the PUMAs gone? In late August there were polls showing that 21% of Hillary supporters were committed to vote for McCain, 52% would vote for Obama and 27% were still undecided. Hillary and Barack pretty much split the primary vote. If 21% of Hillary supporters were committed to McCain, that should translate to at least 10.5% of Democrat support for McCain. With 21% still uncommitted, it wouldn’t be too hard to imagine that if the PUMAs held together, the Democrat support for McCain could be around 15%. If those numbers make sense, why does the most recent Gallup poll only show 7% of Democrats support McCain?
I wrote at the end of August, during the height of Republican PUMA giddiness, that the PUMA’s disgust with Obama was entirely based on emotion with no substance; the policy differences between Hillary and Obama were “Change you could Xerox!” I was concerned then, that once some time elapsed, the emotion would wane and the PUMAs who had vowed fidelity to John McCain would regain their senses and return to feast at the table of “Hope and Change.”
It appears that while the PUMAs entered the final phase of the election season as lions, they will exit as lambs. Unless of course, they’ve managed to pull off a brilliant deception on all of the pollsters. In that case the adage “Revenge is a dish best served cold,” comes to mind. I can’t imagine anything colder than allowing Obama to believe he has the Democrat vote sown up, only to find that the “Bradley effect” will forever more be known as the “PUMA effect!”
You are obviously a racist that will be sadly disappointed on election day, you seem to be motivated by desire for revenge rather than the issues involved. Your desire to see McCain win seem to be personal rather than national, what does McCain have to offer you?
The truth is an of offense but not a sin, tomorrow your greatest fears will be realized, a black man will become president and there is nothing you can do about it.
Thanks for being a shining example of lieberal tolerance, Harry. By the way, Obama is only half-black, but 100% socialist.
Harry
I guess I’ve arrived! Being called a racist when as best as I can tell there were no references of any kind in my post about race, is a badge of honor.
It’s obvious that you’ve drunk the kool-aid. Like Obama, you cry racism when the only racism I can find in the exchange is that which you brought up. Nice try.
As to my personal issue with the election…gee, I don’t know…could it have something to do with the fact that I believe people acheive based on their effort and not by handouts…particularly from government of any kind? Yeah, that’s kind of personal to me.
Thanks for stopping by Harry. If your candidate does win, I hope you’ll all start acting like adults for once and actually discuss issues, of any kind. It seems like Nancy, Harry and now Barack, like folks much better when they don’t question or debate them. In the Democrat party, disension of any kind is apparently very passe!