Predictive Blogging

Let’s just get this out of the way now, shall we? Considering all anyone will hear at the Thursday night VP candidate debate is either crickets or “blah, blah, blah”, I figured I would pre-declare this week’s Idiots of the Week.

Of course, as your dear editor and publisher of SMISLT, unlike the major media outlets, I will be more than willing to correct my mistake if I am wrong. But, for some ungodly reason, I don’t think I have to worry about that.

Let’s hit the candidates first. No, silly, not the VP candidates, the Idiot of the Week candidates (in no particular order):

• Sarah Palin – will parrot John McCain’s campaign lines, especially since playing the maverick would be completely out of line with McCain’s vote on the Senate version of the non-bank bank bailout bill.
• Joe Biden – will say lots of dumb things. After tonight’s Senate vote, he really does not need to say anything of substance anyway, since McCain and the other Republican Senators handed Obama the keys to daddy’s car.
• The RNC / McCain campaign – just for existing
• The DNC / Obama campaign – for existing as a facade, and not showing America how Obama would preside over this great nation.
• The MSM – Biden will be awesome as the affable goofball – you know, your oddball uncle? – yet still manage to look Vice Presidential. Palin will look like someone that did not go to an Ivy League school, and is out of touch with Washington DC politics. But they will get it right that Republicans sold their minions down the river.
• Fox News – McCain is doing the right thing for the country, and conservatives just need to stick with him.
• The zealots in both parties, via blogs – libs will say they are 3.5 months away from living in utopia; conservatives will say they are that far away from living in hell.

What I wrote initially upon drafting this post, prior to the Senate vote:

The winner will end up being none of them. It will be President George Bush. Why? Because practically everything will point back to his failed policies, his inability to support his base, and his overwhelming urge to “reach across the aisle” with people who really don’t want to co-habitate the Federal government. Even when things should also point to Clinton, Bush I, and Carter, they won’t. They will point to Bush, because he is the magnet, whether right or wrong. But I say, “Mostly right.”

Strike that; reverse it. Not because the sentiment was wrong, though.

What I say now is:

The winner will be the Republican Party, for failing to realize, yet again, that you don’t negotiate with terrorists and you don’t turn your back on your constituents. They just don’t get it, and deserve to die as a party. I’d say the same about the Democratic Party, but they will eventually steal the name “the American People’s Party” (or is that the People’s Party of America?) when over 60% of the voting population declares that all big industry should be controlled by the legislature.

Maybe I’ll be the idiot; regardless of how this whole mess turns out, I’ll still spend 90 minutes of my Thursday night watching the debate, if only to confirm how far the Republican Party has fallen.