After more than a year of candidates offering to sell us gourmet hay, tomorrow we get back to the real deal.
John McCain can stop trying to be the Second Coming of Fred Thompson with a Military Pension and Barack Obama will be revealed as something quite a bit more centrist than a Socialist Black Muslim Mole who plans to drive the middle class even deeper in the hole than George W. managed to do.
Either election result, providing McCain stays alive for four years, would be better than what we have in the White House today. The problem is what we have in the country, and whether either leader will be up to the job of cleaning up a big mess and bringing most of us back together.
Nearly half the country will wake up disappointed on Wednesday. It can't be helped. But what happens next?
Reacting to the rhetorical "I'll move to Canada" if a Republican is elected president, Mitch Berg hypothetically asks liberals: What will you do if John McCain wins?
Of course, Mitch and his readers answer it for us, when they aren't busy saying what they'd do if Obama wins.
Say hello to Campaign 2010, “We Shall Fight Them on The Fields And The Landing Grounds, We Shall Never Surrender” Edition.
My answer, Mitch, is the same one I gave after George W. Bush won a historically contested race and Al Gore said, let's get on with running the country. And the one I gave again after 9/11.
I'd give him a chance.
This may separate me from the left-leaners who go to your comment threads to trade insults with the rest of your readers. But most of us don't want to destroy capitalism, take away all your guns or make your daughters marry their gym coaches. We're hopeful about an Obama presidency, but know the very best we're going to get in the next four years is the regular hay.
Once again, if John McCain were to win, I'd say, okay, that's democracy — let's give him a chance. And if Obama wins, I'm not going to yap, burn cars outside Keegan's or cancel my flight to Canada.
Instead, I'm going to buy a new American flag.
