This election was truly "the perfect storm" for the Democrats (and the left in general). They spent (at least) the last four years sharpening their knives, and took advantage of every possible opportunity to add to their arsenal. Very organized, and actually, very Republican.
The things that bugged me personally were Obama's pledge to use public financing (which was abandoned), his original agreement to do the series of "town hall" meetings with McCain (also kicked to the curb), and (trivially) the constant whining of musicians and artists over McCain's use of their music. I was pleased with Joe Perry's support (he is apparently a lifelong Republican), but it came so late and so under the radar that it was of little use. http://www.sleazeroxx.com/news08/1030per.shtml
They should have gotten Joe and Uncle Ted (Nugent, not Kennedy) out there for some guitar dueling.
Ah, so Joe Perry is to blame.
I can just imagine how a couple of rerecordings of Aerosmith chestnuts could have swung the scale:
- Dream on, Obi-boy!,
- Vote this way!,
- Dude (looks like a black man),
- Going under, 'Crats are in the Cellar
- Sarah's got a gun,
- McCain kept on a rollin'.
As for Herr Nugent's contribution to McCain's campaign, I think a wider publicity of his views would have been as appealing to swing voters as a KKK endorsement!
Uncle Ted, for all his contributions to hard rock up to the early eighties and the beautiful guitar tone he used to have, has turned into a walking talking embarrassment and an election liability if anything.
Speaking of the KKK, there is a vid by some Imperial Geek on their official site (no, I'm definitely not linking to KKK sites here) where he comments on the election in a morose tone of voice: "See, this is what the KKK has been predicting for years will happen if the white race doesn't rally together ...". This time I'm glad, the "Hoods" were proven right in their "predictions".
