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Ferry to Nowhere

By Ed Conley - Oct 28th, 2008 at 10:04 am EDT

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The Palin phenomena came in with a metaphor, The Bridge to Nowhere, and it may serve a double purpose, standing for the whole conservative party as we finally cross the waters it promised to carry us over. All political parties promise some salvation of sorts. A better metaphor might be a Ferry to Nowhere. What has happened is that we as a people are realizing that the conservative movement has been just that, a ferry that never docked. We've just been going back and forth over the river of time tooting the same horn, listening to the same pundants entertain us, and watching reruns of how good it's going to be when we arrive.
But the water suddenly got rough, and people began to throw up over the sides. Are we ever going to arrive, we began to ask?
And there on the water came this guy called Obama. He just stood there and looked at us turning green and holding onto the rail. How could he do that? He laughed. "Look," he said. "There is no water." And he danced a little to demonstrate that his feet weren't wet. We all ran to the side of the ship to look. "Oh, and another thing," he added. "There is no ferry or savior. You have to actually walk to the other side." He did a little walking motion to show how easy it was.
We looked at each other and a strange look came over our faces, almost a smile of sheepish recognition like when you are caught redhanded pulling the wool over your eyes. Then the ferry and the conservative movement just disappeared. Suddenly, we were now here.

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