The past few weeks have carried story after about the woes of our adversaries. They've flailed, they've self-destructed, they've gone off-message, heck, now they're even fighting among themselves as they either scramble off the sinking ship or try to climb to the top of the mast to survive until 2012.
It might be tempting at this point to ease up, to think we've got it won, to be satisfied with our gains, and coast home.
Wrong.
We have the opportunity to cripple the GOP -- to kick it in the balls when it's down. And that's exactly what we should do, imposing as much of our will as time and money let us. We need to crush their spirits, to demoralize them, to strip away the thin veneer of unity from their factions and expose their differences to maximize future infighting.
No mercy.
NO MERCY.
At this point, you might think my words here are brutal...harsh...vicious.
Maybe. Fair enough. But I want you to remember a few things:
I want you to remember thousands of Americans dead -- DEAD -- in the
GOP's war in Iraq. Thousands of families with an empty seat at the table.
Tens of thousands more wounded. And hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis.
I want you to remember thousands of homeless veterans out there tonight
in the cold, damp and dark.
I want you to think of all the women who will die if a GOP-appointed
Supreme Court repeals Roe v. Wade.
I want you to remember the misery of Katrina.
I want you to remember how they've spied on us.
I want you to remember how they've ignored the Constitution.
I want you to remember how they found billions for CEOs but nothing for
inner-city schools or struggling homeowners.
I want you to remember the shame that is Guantanamo.
I want you to remember how John McCain and Sarah Palin have run the dirtiest campaign in the history of American presidential politics.
And finally, I want you to think about what they would do were the situation reversed.
Oh, wait: you don't have to: you've already lived through it.
By comparison, my words here are inconsequential. I could not, even if I tried my very best, do even a tiny fraction of the damage that the GOP has done. So I want you to stop reading this diary, get off your ass, get on the phone, get on the street, get out there and do everything you possibly can for the next seven days.
Here's one thing you can do: help out the Obama campaign office in Chester, PA any way you can. This is a poor, urban neighborhood southwest of Philadelphia, not far from the airport. The office there needs volunteers in the office and on the streets, and it needs them NOW. It needs food for the volunteers. It needs help with rides-to-the-polls on election day. This is an area that will go heavily for us, in a critical region of a critical state...but we need to invest the sweat and time and money needed to make it happen. So if you're out-of-state but within reach -- and that includes southern New Jersey, northern Delaware, and the northeast corner of Maryland down to Baltimore -- then find the Chester, PA office and get your butt in there, because everyone else already in Pennsylvania is busy busy busy.
Yeah, that's the same Chester, PA where 9000 people stood outside in the pouring cold rain to hear Barack Obama speak yesterday. The one you can see pictures of this diary: BE INSPIRED: 9,000 IN THE RAIN for Obama in Chester, PA The one that he stopped at -- with a week to go in the campaign and critical states all over the map. The one he could have cancelled over the weather (like McCain cancelled his about an hour away) but didn't. The one that needs your help NOW.