Blindered Loyalty

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Governor Bill Richardson has been trashed by Clinton loyalists in the wake of his endorsement of Barack Obama, to the extreme that James Carville lashed out and called him "Judas" and persists in that tone to this day.

This whole sorry aftermath of the Richardson endorsement reflects far more on Hillary Clinton and her collection of pitbull minions typified by Carville, Mark Penn and Harold "Ickies" and their ilk than on the opposing "team"...which seems to be Obama and a helluva lot of greater America.

You can read Richardson's response to the self-admitted by Carville personal attack here.

Richardson's closing comment that out of loyalty to country, he chose to endorse Obama is one that resonates. There are a whole lot of us these days whose first loyalty is to this country, not a particular party or candidate, because frankly too many have let us down too many times in the past seven years, on both sides of the aisle.

And I really don't give a rat's ass whether or if he promised to endorse Hillary or not.

Because this election transcends little prick your palm and sqwoosh the blood together buddy-buddy pledges or anything but the need for clear-headed reasoning, sound judgment, and restoration of rule of law and honor to our citizens and the world.

We are of a housecleaning frame of mind.

While skimming the net yesterday, on another blog I read a newsreport that quoted a Republican woman as "Bushed out." That, "Bush-whacked," however you want to describe it, resonates, too.

We have had enough of blind loyalty to one person, of politics by division, of disavowal of reality for blindered loyalty. The Cult mentality that's overtaken too much of political life these days may be attributed to the constant, culpable media assault of "catapulting the propaganda."

But whatever the source, the high turnouts for Obama events, the broad spectrum of people attending, the level of the scurrilous desperation of the attacks against him, whether Carville's public "Judas" comment about Richardson or the whispering campaign to Superdelegates about Rev Wright...all these show a nation hungry for change.

A nation paralyzed by fear, as mentioned in the Sundance Channel documentary about architect Mike Reynolds, is slowly, neuron by neuron, starting to move again.

And the move is away from same-old, same-old. I like to think of the American Voter as Captain Kirk kickin' that Klingon over the side of the Genesis Planet cliff. "I...have....had....enough...of...you...."

Maybe it's a good thing the Carvilles are reportedly packing up and moving outa the Beltway Zone. If they get a big enough moving van there are a lot more pundits and consultants and media mavens and politicians and lobbyists and hangers-on who should crowd right in. Or get on the bus....