October surprise

The title of a newly released book, Don't Vote-It Just Encourages the Bastards, seems to capture the frustration of many from both sides of the political spectrum this year. But the jest of that title could also apply to the concept of responding to a Leonard Pitts column. Particularly his last minute October attempt earlier this week, to cast dispersions on anyone with an R before their name, and to toss a life buoy to the desperate passengers who are jumping off of the USS Demo-lation before its Davey Jones 1102 Express ride.
Calling Republicans "dumb" is a rite of passage for any up and coming liberal worth his smugness, and George Bush is exhibit A. As they say, "if you throw enough poop against the wall, some of it is going to stick". How else do you explain the perception that a Ph.D. from Harvard with a double digit higher grade point average than his 2004 presidential race opponent, is a moron? Or, that his opponent is a genius?
Why does George Bush's Texas drawl induced pronunciation of certain words, such as "nuclear", elicit mockery among the national press while Barrack Obama gets a pass as he refers to our "57" states and praises our marine "corpse" (Sigmund, are you listening?)
Pitts followed the left's play book obediently by reaching back to take a swipe at Bush, but his sites this week then turned to a woman named Christine O'Donnell. For those North Carolinians who may not be familiar with her, there's good reason. It's because she's running for a US Senate seat....in Delaware. But she's kind of goofy, naive..you know,"out there". In short, she's the perfect face to be the Republican moron/boogy man this year, and she's soft spoken and meekish. Fishing-in-a-barrel for a sophisto like Pitts.
FYI, little known O'Donnell won the Republican nomination for US Senate back in the spring primary. Miracle? Well, yea. When Karl "Rasputin" Rove said a few pesimistic words about Ms. O'Donnell's election chances, the architect of the evil Bush Empire suddenly morphed into a beautiful butterfly of bipartisanship in Democrat eyes.
And when O'Donnell mentioned, correctly, that the phrase "separation of church and state" doesn't actually appear anywhere in the US Constitution, copies of that document starting dropping from the sky in portions that made fishes and loaves seem like cocktail weenies, and the dread fear of liberals being strapped upside down on a flat board while Franciscan monks sift the ashes of burned Billy Graham sermon transcripts onto their faces through cheese cloth dipped in holy water spread over the land like a fresh shipment of Duncan Yo-Yo's. Miracle light, maybe?
Although O'Donnell doesn't seem to be the sharpest tool in the shed, Pitts failed to mention a similar, previously unknown, Democrat counterpart. The South Carolina Democrat senate nominee and ignoramus, Alvin Greene, was elected by uninformed intellectual zombies who were trained to put a mark on the first name beside a "D" on the ballot.
O'Donnell, on the other hand, won the nomination with eyes wide open. In fact, her Republican primary opponent was sitting US House Representative Mike Castle, and considered a sure thing for the Senate seat. The problem for Delaware conservatives was that Rep. Castle has repeatedly voted lockstep with Democrats, and that a compromise with madness is...madness.
Republicans may not pick up the Delaware Senate seat on Tuesday, but electing Mike Castle wouldn't have achieved a desired result either. The up side here is that any Dem-lite Republicans still standing after Tuesday just might get the message. Two years pass quickly these days.
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