No Vote No Future

We are coming down to the wire.  I’ll be voting tomorrow. As the following two videos show – one using clever production techniques and scare tactics and the other using that all-too-valuable but becoming ever-scarce and somehow vilified common sense – it’s time to put up or shut up.

First, we look to our friends at MoveOn.org, whose RepubliCorp campaign is nothing short of brilliant.  In fact, it was in keeping with this idea that Lauren Valle had her head stomped on by a Rand Paul campaign worker when she held up a sign proclaiming Paul “RepubliCorp Employee of the Month”.  Take a moment and click on the link for a scary glimpse into the future.  Unfortunately you have to click on this link to watch it, as the embedding feature doesn’t work… but please do it!

The common sense came by way of Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment last night. “If the Tea Party Wins, America Loses” pretty much sums it up. But when you listen to him rattle off the laundry list of these uneducated, neanderthal candidates who want to propel us back to the middle ages, you’d be hard pressed not to run screaming to the polls to vote for your Democratic candidate, even if he/she is, at best, ineffective. Ineffective is somehow much better than disastrous.

Last night, President Obama visited John Stewart at The Daily Show to try to talk some sense into Americans.

Earlier in the day, he visited with five progressive bloggers, including Crooks and Liars‘ John Amato, to help get the message out.

Yes, all the stops are being pulled out.  But what if it doesn’t matter?

I keep pointing out that the right wingers live in opposite world…  Another example of that is their recent warnings that Democrats will commit voter fraud. (Seriously?!)  I know we don’t have to worry about that, though we might be wondering what they’re up to in their pot-calling-the-kettle-black world.

BradBlog‘s Brad Friedman will join us in the second hour of today’s show to talk about what we do have to worry about when it comes to election integrity.

At a time when too many of us don’t have any spare change to contribute to the campaigns of the good guys, there’s still a way to help.  Stephanie Taylor of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee will join us at the start of the show to fill us in on their Call Out The Vote initiative, and other ways to help insure that the best progressive candidates win on Tuesday.

And, although they say it won’t be political, thousands of people will gather on the Mall in Washington DC on Saturday for John Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity (and Stephen Colbert’s Keeping Fear Alive rally).  Say what they will, I think it will energize the sane among us (and if you listen to Keith’s Special Comment from last night, the Tea Party/Republican candidates are anything but same) and be entertaining at the same time.

Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News and author of The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama will join me to discuss his latest piece, “Thousands likely to attend Rally to Restore Sanity, but few know what it’s about”.

Don’t forget, Lizz Winstead will be with us Monday morning for a recap of the weekend’s festivities!

Listen live from 10-noon ET, and come back later today for the podcast!