Hoping For a Very Negative Campaign

Quote of the day:
“Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.”
--Willa Cather

Truism of the day:
“It’s always darkest before the dawn.”

I am sincerely wishing for the most negative presidential campaign in history next year.

Why would I want such a thing? Why would anyone with any sense want such a thing? Don’t answer that.

It’s been reported that Republican operatives can barely contain their glee at the prospect of Hillary Clinton being the Democratic nominee. You just know that there has already been a lot of work developing negative campaign strategies using all the same old missteps from Clinton’s past.

And I am certain that if she is the nominee there will be nonstop slams, mud, rumors and innuendo such as the world has never seen. The 2004 Swift Boat Veterans nonsense will be just a mild rehearsal for what will come.

Hillary says she is prepared, and I believe her. She has said that she has learned that when an opponent hits you, the way to respond is by decking him (and it will be a him--a white him).

That sounds nasty, but it is the appropriate and needed response. Here’s why. First, reams of blackness exist in the past of every potential Republican opponent, and most of it is not widely known. It needs to be clearly communicated--make that hammered, again and again and again and again. And again.

Second and more important is this. Maybe this campaign can be so viciously nasty, obnoxious, stinking, low-hitting, unfair and foul that we will all get so sick of it that we will insist that it never happen again.

I can always dream.