Comments on: “Swing Red,” a guest blog from Moralia

By: Moralia - Election Night, Part I

Moralia - Election Night, Part I — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:31:46 +0000

[…] tuned for more election night blogging from the woman the Santa Fe Reporter calls “New Mexico’s #1 Sarah Palin expert.” That might not be worth much after tomorrow, I realize, but let me bask in my fading glory for […]

By: Laura Lansrud-Lopez

Laura Lansrud-Lopez — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:35:34 +0000

I haven’t read anything in the Reporter that hasn’t turned my stomach since McCain picked Palin as his running mate. Thank you for not turning my stomach in this blog.

McCain/Palin ‘08

By: John McAndrew

John McAndrew — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:02:16 +0000

“It is that simple.”

Only for the simple-minded.

Obama for President!

Lass for PRC!

By: Russell

Russell — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:42:44 +0000

The election comes down to this:

Obama wants to kill babies and raise taxes.

Palin wants to raise babies and kill taxes.

It is that simple.

By: Zach

Zach — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:54:02 +0000

So you think “nucular” war is funny? Something to joke about? You’re sick and pathetic. You want to elect a woman whose so stupid she can’t even say nuclear right just like that moron Bush can’t. A woman so dumb she doesn’t even read newspapers and gets the Dan Quale “deer in the headlights” look when Katie Couric asked her what newspapers she reads. McCain is bad enough but Palin is just plain scary. You laugh at us for being scared but we are scared because we love this country and don’t want to see eight more years of Bush-Chaney-McCain-Palin policies where they torture people and call it patriotic.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:14:00 +0000

This was a great post! Well written and non-abrasive in its message! You made excellent points that are well understood.

Thank you! And love to see more!

By: Maassive

Maassive — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:44:17 +0000

Wow! I just wanted to thank y’all for chiming in. This is the best thread we’ve had this year…

By: John McAndrew

John McAndrew — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:27:49 +0000

I was in Corrales yesterday, campaigning for and with Rick Lass, about whom you, Moralia, showed the good sense to say nice things on your blog. I spoke with one voter who wanted to talk about the presidential race. She said “Blacks don’t belong in the White House,” and “Well, at least he’s half white.” These are verbatim quotes. So, some Republican partisans make ad hominem attacks as well. My brother has sent me all manner of made up attacks on Obama. An old fundamentalist friend sent me an e-mail that said, in its entirety, “Q: What do Obama and Osama have in common? A: They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon.”

Smart people would like nothing better than to have voters make decisions based on a rational evaluation of the facts and the expected consequences of the candidates’ proposed policies. As a supporter of Lass, I am particularly wishful that that would be the case, since his resume contrasts so sharply with his opponent’s mendacity.

But voters make decisions based on all manner of capacities – rational, emotional, and prejudicial. Objecting to the fact that those who are voting against your candidate are doing so for other than rational reasons is, I think, evidence of frustration with the world as it always has been. At least, that’s what I decided it was when I made the same complaint about America in the last two presidential elections.

So, you don’t like living in communities that denigrate your political perspective. Those of us in blue communities have had to deal with being called unAmerican for our views, and have been told to vote Christian, or vote American, as only a vote for a Republican can be Christian or American. After 8 years of Bush, guess who looks like we’ve been proven right? Is torture either Christian or American? Are secret prisons? Is a $700 bailout of miscreant financial institutions Socialist? Capitalist? Or something else? How Christian or American is a war begun on lies, with thousands dead and incapacitated on both sides, with innocent civilians caught in between?

I could go on . . .

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:38:42 +0000

I’m a swing voter, still undecided. I went to your blog and read that post where you wrote about abortion, and I’d never thought about it that way. The more I think about it, the more I realize you may well be right about it. Right or wrong, though, that post was really clever and funny, too, just like this one.

By: Cathleen

Cathleen — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:32:19 +0000

Wow, this is what I call GOOD reading! And you are funny too.