the sadness of being a republican

The sadness of being a republican.
by jo nathan dudley

So after 7 years of missed opportunities, bungled hurricanes and out right serial lying, the republican convention looked like it might just be a wash. John McCain, once a dignified war hero who ultimately had to cozy up to Bush to get back into the Presidential game, was looking old and stale. This is the same Bush who skipped out of service in Vietnam while flying (when it suited him) National Guard jets in the dangerous skies of Texas and Alabama.

McCain had no hope of being relevant this election other than possibly hammering BO with the experience issue and that only was taking him so far.

But alas, he chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate. The Alaskan savior who leaned on none other than God to get elected governor and to get another oil pipeline.
McCain then switched gears and promised country first but acted like POLITICS first all the while calling Obama elitist. I guess Obama can not hide from his background and his elitist single mother and super elitist Grandparents who raised him in spite of his father. Elitist always buck tradition in favor of liberal survival techniques.

McCain/Palin stood for reform but that was just lipstick on a porky pig. Even though McCain spent his career trying to kill the pork, he still can't convince anybody other than his choir that Palin isn't the queen of pork. Not even lipstick can cover up that lie.
They said she was a reformer with executive experience. They were right. She had reformed her town's budget so much that when she left office the town was in debt and spent the surplus budget the town's previous administration had accrued. Maybe I am missing the underlying point of the McCain Campaign, with all that executive experience w/ pork and overspending, they knew she would be a natural in Washington. However, now I see why McPalin can now go after the change mantra because as soon as she joined the campaign they changed their approach to straight-up-all-out lying as opposed to small lies with bits of truth.

Then after her vast experience was disproved the republicans still kept drinking the koolaid and they spun wildly out of control into McCain/Palin madness. Each trying to out do another in making up excuses in defense of Wasilla's favorite gal. For so long, McCain had bashed Obama's lack of experience and then he turns around and picks someone who was Mayor of a city of 6,000 people and Governor of one of the least populous states. A politician whose foreign policy experience is limited to lying about trips to Iraq and mostly based on her ability to see Russia from an island of the coast of her snow capped dominion.
WAY TO GO GUYS!