The Scariest Voters

Having deliberately avoided the Robamney debate yesterday, I still couldn't avoid the general media reaction, which was that Chameleon Mitt had won hands down, largely by deftly employing his Etch-a-Sketch strategy as he portrayed himself smack dab in the political middle after trying to out-extreme the extremists in his party for years.  (Nausea creeping in on me...)  From what I heard, Obama let him get away with everything he said.

I have long been a little scared at the people in this country who subscribe to politically fringe ideas.  The political left has its extremists, to be sure, but there seems to be an explosion on the right in the number of people walking around with a delusional view of the world.  I credit extremist/right talk radio, a regrettably highly politicized faction of evangelical Christianity, and conservative ultra-wealthy fatcat ideologues with much of this.  And this burgeoning number does scare me some.  But not as much as...

Not as much as the large number of people in our electorate who, after all these years of exposure to Obama and Romney and their views and actions, still haven't made up their minds who to vote for and are using these debates as a tool to accomplish this.  In other words the dude who gets in the most "zingers" gets their vote.  And the history of my country (and, to a great extent, the world) hinges on how millions of these morons decide to vote every four years.  Yes, to paraphrase Michael Corleone at the beginning of The Godfather, "They are very scary people." Al Pacino's character may have been referring to a single, terrifying person in Luca Brasi, but the cumulative effect of these easily swayed, shallow voters can be terrifying as well.  And in case you've haven't yet connected the dots, they are also the reason untold millions of dollars are being spent in this year's campaign, with more and more to come.  Just to persuade these knuckleheads...