How often do you sit back and think — is this truly happening? Can the GOP steal an election, spend eight years tearing this nation apart, and go on to run another smear campaign to elect yet another set of absurd candidates?
Outrageous. Unbelievable. As Matt Damon put it last week, this is like a really bad Disney movie.
But no, this isn’t a movie — this is reality, and the future of our world is at stake. Imagine, in the likely chance that McCain dies in office, Vice President Sarah Palin steps in to become the leader of the free world. Just imagine.
New urgency calls for new measures. The GOP is winning, and another onslaught of lies and attacks is yet to come. We have to hit back fast and hard, and while Obama’s new tone will help, what we need is a new theme — a theme we glimpsed at the most electrifying moment of Obama’s speech in Denver:
ENOUGH.
You can feel it simmering just beneath the surface. It is a sense that something in this country is fundamentally wrong. It is an underlying outrage and fury over what has happened to our country over the past eight years – and a vigorous determination to chart a new direction.
Obama will win a landslide if he can unleash and direct this outrage. But it will require a theme commensurate with the challenge. ”Change” is not enough. As Arianna Huffington writes:
“To fully become the transformational leader we need, Obama must demonstrate to the American people his capacity for indignation — for the kind of ferocious passion that fueled King and Nelson Mandela. He has to fight fire with fire, and wield anger in the service of what is right, true, and good. The fierce urgency of now demands nothing less.“
The fierce urgency of now demands a new and powerful theme – a theme that can resonate with Americans of all political stripes and can be summed up in one word: ENOUGH.
ENOUGH with this disaster economy.
ENOUGH with this disaster foreign policy.
ENOUGH with this disaster war.
ENOUGH with this ignorant energy strategy.
ENOUGH with this intolerable health care.
ENOUGH with trashing the Constitution.
ENOUGH with the lies and corruption.
ENOUGH with gambling away our future.
ENOUGH!!! It is the rallying cry that can unite and invigorate Americans behind a simple and clear message: too much is at stake. We have built too much to let it be taken away. And we love this country too much to allow it to be undermined at such a critical point in our history.
So please – join me in sending this message to family, friends, and colleagues. Let it be heard loud and clear that the American people have had enough – that we are ready to fight for our future and leave the past behind once and for all.
Teryn Norris
terynnorris@gmail.com
www.stopGOP.org