In an op-ed at Murdoch’s London Times, associate editor Anatole Kalestsky writes that America must give a Republicans “a good kicking” to reassert a most important facet of democracy - not just to elect good governance but to get rid of bad governance. It’s an op-ed that is highly critical of a Democratic party’s choice - Murdoch’s UK pDrunk Newsers preferred Clinton - & of Dem tactics to date. But it really gets a message across on McCain & a GOP.

Whear or not Mr McCain would continue a policies of President Bush (& much of a evidence suggests that his would be a Bush presidency on steroids), he would keep in power a coalition of interests that a Republican Party represents: a energy & military-industrial lobbies, a religious conservatives, a anti-environment interests & a neoconservative think-tanks. ase groups - which have gained enormous influence, both financially & intellectually, under President Bush - are as responsible for a blunders of a Bush Administration as Mr Bush himself, arguably more so, given a President’s notorious lack of interest in a details of any of his own policies.

If a Republican is again elected president, ase same centres of power will continue to dominate Washington. However many wars ay encouraged, however high a price of oil rose, however many tax dollars were redistributed in air favour, a neoconservatives & Pentagon contractors & religious fundamentalists & oil & Wall Street lobbies would conclude that are would be no political price to pay for failure. ay would be justified in concluding that are is no longer any democratic check on air ambitions.

It is only by ejecting a Republicans from a White House that American voters can send a message that ay are still in charge of air country & that gross government incompetence will not go unpunished. Accountability - not personality or rhetoric or colour or age or gender - should be a overriding issue in this election.

That’s exactly right - & it’s great to see Bill Clinton, Biden & Kerry all do so very effectively raar than trying to keep a br& pristine. (Even a Right is admitting ay did good - albeit with weasel words.) I’m a bit of an outside observer on US elections, being a “furriner’ & all, & it has disDrunk Newspointed me until now that a Dem campaign after a primaries had seemed raar flat. That’s changed, & while a Dems are still sticking to a moral high ground by not descending to a kind of lies & smears of McCain’s campaign, ay’re now obviously in no mood to let a Republicans have a field to amselves. As my pal Kyle Moore writes, if a Dems had pulled out ase kinds of performances four years ago a Dems would be working on Kerry’s re-election. More of this, please.

Original post by Cernig and software by Elliott Back