Posted by
ScarletPimpernel on Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:38:17 PM
Glenn Beck made an outstanding analogy today on his radio show. He was giving his producer, Republican Dan, a chance to convince him to vote for McCain. Glenn has said several times that he's not sure for whom he's going to vote. Like a lot of us former Repubs, he doesn't like our choices. During the persuading, Dan said the magic words that sum up the McCainites' argument, "You're just throwing your vote away" and "Obama will be worse". So Glenn argued that a citizen IS NOT throwing his vote away by voting what he thinks is best. And he pointed out that voting for the lesser of two evils is STILL voting for evil.
So then Glenn came back in the next segment with what I thought was a perfect analogy explaining what we conservatives are trying to tell Repub diehards: the ship's going down like in the 1972 movie Poseidon. I admit I haven't seen the movie in a long time but basically this luxury cruise liner (America) gets hit by a giant wave (terrorism, socialism, blindness) and gets capsized. Three major things happen at that point. One group of passengers sticks around by the upside down giant beautiful Christmas tree and tells everybody, "Wait here! Help is on the way! They'll come for us!" Another group wants to go through the smoke stacks - even though they are pointed in the wrong direction. And the third group wants to go to the ship's engine rooms to find tools and a way out.
The second group is the Obama Dem/libs. They don't think too clearly nor plan ahead. They just want action.
The first group is the McCainites. They certainly don't want to go through the smoke stacks and get blown up or drowned. They also don't want to risk going "down" (which is now up) to the engine rooms because there is no guarantee that they'll survive and escape. It just doesn't make sense to them.
The third group is we cons who don't want to wait for some magical help to arrive or not. If we stand still, clinging to the Christmas Tree we will drown. The tree is beautiful, comfortable, seemingly safe and dry but we know that it is only temporary. We know for sure that going through the smoke stacks is stupid as well.
We want Gene Hackman. Someone who will lead us, however risky it will be, to safety. The upside down ship is a nice metaphor. In order to get to where we want to go, we will have to do the opposite of what we naturally would do: we will have to go down (which is up) to the foundation to start over. That's where we will get our tools and find a way out. We need a Gene Hackman to lead us. We will lose some folks as we go along but staying in the ship will cost us to lose them anyway.
Where are you Gene?