The problem is, they're both right. McCain's people are being petty, yes, and it reflects poorly on them. But they're also right. Africa is not a country, William Ayres is not relevant, and neither is the fictional character of Joe the Plumber. Sarah Palin may just have been unprepared. But she might also just be dumb. Either way, we've just endured 8 years of George W. Bush, and we're all set with dumb for a while. To paraphrase Chris Rock, it's not so hard to imagine a Black President. We've just had a retarded one for the last 8 years.
Taken in combination, this is why the country has swung the other way and chosen the Democrats. Ironically, the Republicans' childish behavior seems to be costing them with the youngest voters. Another Daily Beast article discusses what the electoral map looks like, based on just the votes of the 18-29 year old demographic:
Yup. Here's a clue for the Republican Party. That's 455 electoral votes. Do you see how blue that map is? It's gone from well-known to glaringly obvious that you need to engage the youth better. Clearly, acting immature doesn't give you street cred with the sophisticated constituency of the youth vote. It lost you an election, and yet the behavior continues.
The American voter must be 18 years of age or older. Therefore, he or she has likely graduated high school, and is ready to have outgrown it. We are adults, and we want to hear solutions and ideas about actual issues. We are not interested in fighting over boys and clothes and who's smarter and who's prettier and who's a loser and who's hanging out with who. Grow up. We have real problems, adult, big-boys-and-girls problems in the world. And these are the things that are important.
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