Here Peggy Noonan makes two assertions about the presidential campaign that have me thinking aloud:
1) “This campaign, this beautiful golden thing with two admirable men at the top and two admirable vice presidential candidates, is going to turn dark.”
2) “It is starting to look to me like a nation-defining election.”
She says it will turn dark, essentially, because of entrenched commitment by the left-leaning media and by other such voices: “the new combatants are half-crazy cable anchors, the lower lurkers of the Internet, and the anonymous posters on the comment thread on the radical website.”
We have talked about radical here before. I think it is a valid concern. What do you think? Nervous? Do you agree that “this campaign is going to engage unseen powers and forces”?
Talk to me.
The democrats have a serious investment into Obama. We never saw this type of ridiculousness with Kerry because the dems could care less about Kerry particularly and just wanted a southpaw white house. Obama is different. They know no one will be coming along for a while that has the level of charisma and attention grabbing abilities that Obama has; it’s certainly not Biden, that’s for sure. The white knuckled grip on Barack being 44 is only going to get tighter and yes, I agree it’s going to get even uglier.
Look, I think all elections in some sense or another are nation-defining elections.
Yeah, of course the election will get ugly on both sides. Negative politics wins more often than not, and both sides want to win.