Cracker Vote

Like G-Bitch, I'm all for a politics of cutting through the bullshit and calling out people for what they really are... or as she puts it, "Calling a Cracker Vote a Cracker Vote"

But it occurs to me that this particular term can potentially turn the conversation in undesirable directions. For example:



Athenae explains this problem further.

Of course, the real dysfunction lies in the timidity of both campaigns and in the press that follows them steering the discourse away from substance and towards this... as Taibbi put it... juvenilia.

Has it come to this? The political equivalent of "I know you are, but what am I?" On both sides, this Obama-Clinton race has turned into something very like the vicious rivalry of a pair of blood-lusting high school student bodies — Odessa Permian versus Midland Lee, only with the fate of the free world hanging in the balance.

Sadder still is the fact that we could all pretty much write a post like this in our sleep by now. And yet... here we still are.