“Make no mistake about it: Barack Obama isn’t running against John McCain, he’s running against George W. Bush. Tonight, he finally and firmly stood McCain next to Bush and stuck an ‘I’m With Stupid’ t-shirt on him. This isn’t just any old election. This is America deciding whether to stand the Republican Party in the corner for four or maybe eight years, or to drag it down to the principal’s office, paddle its ass but good, bounce it out to the sidewalk, and stamp ‘EXPELLED: PERMANENT’ on its file. Barring some truly bizarre and catastrophic development, there just ain’t no gold stars or smiley-face stickers in the GOP’s immediate future.” (08/28/08)