Well, not that anyone would want to politicize a hurricane (I mean that would be as despicable as using one of the most horrific terrorist events in US history to win an election), but the hurricane is working in the Republicans favor. McCain doesn’t want to be associated to much with Bush/Cheney, but how can you have a party convention without your current party’s leadership. Well, now they can’t attend because of the Hurricane. We all remember where the president was when Katrina hit three years ago. And in case you don’t here’s the photo from the White House website.
And while Gustav was no where near the Category 5 Katrina, I expect that the Republicans will still be patting themselves on the back for how well they responded to this crisis. And there is no real way to criticize them. In fact, this is the newest tactic of the McCain campaign: not allowing the media to criticize him.
The media always loved McCain, but now he’s being all crotchety anytime anyone has a legitimate complaint about him. When asked, he forgot how many houses he owned. Now it’s fine to be rich, ordinary people love the rich. They obsess over their lives, and hope one day to be like them. People dream that one day they too, will be able to buy a condo and when it gets used by their kids too much, buy another. But we have a right to claim you’re out of touch with the common man when not only do you buy houses like regular people buy dvds, but also when you claim the “Economy is fundamentally strong” and your economic adviser said we’re in a “mental recession” and called us a “nation of whiners”. We especially have the right to call you on it, if you jumped all over Obama because he said people were “bitter”.
But, instead of responding to the real issues, like why owning multiple houses doesn’t make him out of touch, he copped out and used the POW thing which drowned out the other point he was trying to make.
Had he left out the POW reference and just mentioned that Cindy’s dad was a great American success story, we might have forgiven him. Had he just said, “I want to get America back to that ideal. I want our troops coming home from Iraq to get the opportunity to start their own businesses and give their children and grandchildren the same great life that Cindy and I enjoy.” Of course, McCain couldn’t have said that because he doesn’t even think our soldiers in Iraq deserve a college education or adequate healthcare.
GI Bill roll call list
In fact, on the new GI Bill, 25 senators voted no, and 3 did not vote. All 25 “no” votes were Republicans. Who were the three who did not vote: John McCain, Tom Coburn, and Ted Kennedy. Kennedy had a good excuse, he was recovering from chemo due to his brain tumor, and couldn’t make it. McCain, on the other hand, just didn’t have the courage to vote no!
And now, McCain has picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. It wasn’t enough that McCain use Hillary’s campaign strategies (which lost her the contest, BTW), he had to go and pick a female running mate so he could also play the sexism card! Make no mistake the minute someone starts criticizing Palin on her experience, the McCain camp is going to claim sexism. They’ll be running on sexism and POW. For someone who was running on experience, picking Palin is at best…CRAZY!
There was supposed to be some video here, but I'm not sure what went wrong, but check out comedy central's Daily Show, Colbert Report, and Root of all Evil, for video on Sarah Palin and what I think is the Republican Platform.
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