My continued disgust with the leftists

This behavior is what ticks me off about the namby-pamby left side of the Democratic party. This from the party who was too spineless to open their trap when they KNEW the I-raq "war" was a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-War.

This from the left media baron, the NY Times. The bitching, whining about Hillary and her "negativity" hurting the party. I come from the heartland, a location of this country I decry constantly, and hate being from. However, perhaps that's why I have a freaking backbone...perhaps it's why I have a pair of balls dangling from my scrotum...because this is bullshit, it's crap....and I've had ENOUGH!

A day ago, the Times unleashed this whopper from their "Editorial Board"...aka: their all-sissy board. The low road eh?

Yeah, well it's cute, it's political-Pollyanna-ish, and it's a tired, old, refrain we have heard many times over: "People don't like negative campaigning." Boo...fucking hoo....let's all cry our eyes out. Let's have a huggy moment. Strictly by the polling, this opinion may be accurate...but it has CONSISTENTLY been disproved by the very effectiveness of negative campaigning. You want proof?:

Ask Harold Ford Jr. Wait, don't ask Harold, because he too plays cute political games and flat out refuses to call out what was blatantly clear in his race for Senate in Tennessee. He lost because Bob Corker unleashed a negative ad mixing racial hatred with the sexual patriarchy social norms that assholes in that part of the country (and perhaps those voters Obama has been unable to close) subscribe to and cling to. To this day, Harold can't bring himself to say he lost because of his skin color and his bachelorhood and the cause of that nasty ad Corker sank him on.

Ask Max Cleland, an amputee who was called unpatriotic by his Republican opponents in his race, and subsequently lost in a dirty, nasty campaign. Ask John Kerry, who lost primarily due to his ineffectiveness and unwillingness to fight fire with fire and let the Swift Boat accusations stand without addressing them immediately.

I know I am running a broken record here in this blog...but I will keep running until you all GET IT. You can bring your blankeys and you Smores to the cute little campfire of election politics...you can sing Cumbayah (however you spell it) and hold hands...but when the Republicans dump lighter fluid on the Obama campfire (AND THEY WILL DUMP A LOT, make no mistake about McCain and his dumbfuck/awww shucks promises)...you do not stand there and watch the fire burn out of control. You don't try to talk to the fire and calm it down. You don't wait it out until it dies down and then put out the damage done...YOU MUST SHOOT LIGHTER FLUID BACK INTO YOUR OPPONENT'S FIRE.

My fellow Hoosier, Heartlandish, has broken up with Hillary not recognizing her role in this campaign. More on that development below in a somewhat-redundant post of mine.

But, my fellow leftists...I AM BEGGING YOU....I URGE YOU...do not forsake Hillary. No matter what "negative ad" Hillary ran in Pennsylvania, no matter what ad she airs in the next 2 contests, this Democratic primary is FAR from negative campaigning to the level of the Republicans. To ignore this, to poo-poo this is at your own candidates peril in the fall.

Do you seriously think Hillary is airing any issues, any serious concerns, that would NOT have been thought of by the Republicans? Seriously? The Repos are the best in the bidness, and the Clinton's through their battles have learned how to fight back with all the vitriole it takes to combat such a force. Hillary and her campaign are not bringing up any issue that McCain or his surrogates wouldn't have, and it's better Obama get a primer of those attacks now, rather than be blind-sighted by them later.

Let me be clear (thanks Larry Craig for the line): I am NOT in favor of campaigning this way. I never have been, I never will be. The system is highly unfair, from the Selectoral College on down. I hate all forms of soft money. I hate PACs. I hate private financing of campaigns. But, no matter how unfair the system may be, you have to fight within the limits of that system, and be willing to take advantage of ALL avenues within said system. This includes negative ads. If you refuse to fight within these rules, the Democratic Party WILL lose again, ask John Kerry.

In short, to my fellow liberal bloggers and The New York Times, Andrew Sullivan: Stick a cork in it. Hillary has earned every right to run her campaign, she has earned the right to stay in this. Grow a backbone people...or get out of the business of covering elections, because you clearly don't get how the meanest, dirtiest sport in America is played and YOU CAN'T HACK IT!