Everytime I tell myself, I’m not going anywhere near politics, something comes along that just grabs me by the damn collar and pulls me into the dark side. This time it was all of the stickerslaps plastered across Hollywood at the Freeway entrances that proclaimed “911 Was An Inside Job”. Hell, everybody knew that the minute the WTC came down like a stacked deck in a bum shuffle. But conspiracy theories are like bad colds. Once you get one, you take your place in line for another.
But this time I figured what the hell. The best conspiracy theories are the ones you start yourself just to see how far they travel. So here goes.
The Election of 2008 as seen from vantage point of the four or five guys at the top of the food chain who are actually the shotcallers of Land of the Free & Home of the Brave, Inc. You know the guys I’m talking about. What if they had a conversation like this a few years back?
“I never liked that guy. I always thought Jeb was the brighter of the two.” Answered by, “Well this is no time for second guessing, we have ourselves a bit of a situation here.” At which point the smartest of the group speaks up. “Gentlemen, gentlemen. There is always more than one way to skin a chinchilla. I suggest we play both sides of the coin in 2008.”
At which point the conversation would shift to a freshman Senator they’ve had their eyes on since his pre-law days at Harvard. “I know you like the boy, but that name has got to go.” And slowly but with great certainty, a masterful strategy emerges. “I’ve been speaking with Carl and he believes the time is right. He’ll work with us on a covert basis, if we ask him.”
And so it goes. The Republican influence on the Democratic hopeful. Influenced from former GOP Rep. Jim Leach of Iowa who served 15 terms in the House, who made his endorsement announcement of Obama during a conference call with former GOP Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island. Influenced by Chafee who was a Republican while in the Senate who has supported Obama since the Democratic primaries. Then there was Sen. Chuck Hagel a Nebraska Republican and longtime friend of McCain’s, who was suggested early on as Obama’s Vice Presidential running mate by Jim Leach.
And of course McCain isn’t the only one with an Alaska connection. The Republican mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska, Jim Whitaker. stated publically that he liked Obama’s energy policy and believed the Democrat has the stronger “intellectual capacity” of the two candidates. Whitaker who was quoted to have said: “My goal is to let Republicans have a clear understanding that their right to vote should not be restricted by any party affiliation.” The same Jim Whitaker that supported McCain in the 2000 Republican primary. Of course Chafee and Leach have never been part of the mainstream of the Republican Party, but who cares? They have enough mainstream GOP power brokers in their combined Rolodexes to field a flotilla of political influence. Soooo, that got me to thinking.
What if the boys upstairs got the bright idea that the only way they could hope to get four more years in the White House was to put somebody opposite McCain that was guaranteed to bring out the worst in every red-blooded, red-stated American Hateriot? Somebody who would cancel out the voters need to think, or reason and just fire up a stampede to the ballot boxes to prevent the unthinkable from taking place.
What if the strategy this time around was not to pick the best man to vote for, but the best man to vote against? Would that be a way of assuring four more years for the folks who brought you eight poor years? Just a little food for thought.
Think about it.
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