This is the new ideology. Why vet someone when the propaganda and speechwriting can be played for the truth?
Never mind that they steal music.
Never mind that they had no permission to use the image of that middle school.
Never mind that no one has heard her speak beyond the empty rhetoric.
Never mind that they are now saying “More of the same!” in regards to Obama.
Never mind that they have appropriated the “change” mantra.
Or that her husband is a secessionist.
Or that she has flip flopped on the bridge to nowhere.
She never has to answer to any of this because they have decided that the new politics is one where you just take what big brother tells you to.
This is scary scary shit because it’s a tactic straight out of a german politicking handbook.
It’s not just “politics as usual.” It’s terrifying.
As though they have decided all bets are off and there is no need for or attempt at integrity.
And the media is letting them do it.
And Obama is letting them do it.
Case in point his appearance on O’Reilly.
O’Reilly was smart. He used perspicacious in an attempt to describe his agreement with Obama’s war view. His audience, as John astutely observed, have no idea what he was talking about. So they can’t hold his feet to the fire, after all, the word had more than two syllables.
Then he managed to get Obama to admit that the surge had a measure of success. Which, in turn, became raw meat for the lipstick pitbull today at a rally.
And why didn’t Obama have a rally the day after? Why did he decide to let them have another day? They didn’t afford us the same courtesy.
The gloves are off. The playing field has been leveled and the right has decided it can’t win on merits or facts. (The president got 8 minutes as McCain attempts to divorce himself from the previous administration.) So they confiscate Obama’s talking points, claim them as their own and use them to bludgeon their opponents.
Rove is a smart guy. He knows that the way to destroy/defeat someone is not to point out their weaknesses but to disarm their strengths.
When it was said by, I think, Clark, that he wasn’t sure how being shot down and held prisoner was an adequate proving ground for the presidency, not only was he right, but that is exactly the kind of bullet the right would have used against us. In fact, they did! They made a war hero a zealot last time around.
If Michelle Obama had a baby out of wedlock do you think for one second they wouldn’t be talking about it? She made one comment about being proud of her country for the “first time” and they practically rode her out of town on a rail, but the spouse of the Veep candidate can belong to a secessionist group!??!?
Country First? Are you kidding me?
Palin MUST be put under the microscope and these people must be shown to be the charlatans and thieves they are.
The problem is that evil is not a comment on itself, but on the stupidity of the people who will allow evil to flourish. In other words, if people were not stupid, then this would not be a problem. We wouldn’t be talking about this if we had confidence in the intelligence of a portion of the American people to a) take care of themselves b) respect others.
Short term thinking and resentment feed into stupidity — religious fervor and greed create those consistently. You can always count on religious fervor and greed to feed into evil.
So if everything you say comes true — and it might — it’s not the Republicans who are to blame, it’s the people who elect them. Our fellow citizens. That’s what’s frightening to me. Evil gets nowhere without support. Over the last eight years, I feel like I’ve watched the slow build to the Soviet Union just with lots of great electronics and an abundance of fatty foods. And it’s the ordinary people in my own country who are to blame.
Having stood on line at the Obama HQ and listened to the conversations, all I can say is: You couldn’t be more right. The idiocracy is prevalent especially to the base. (And I’m one of them now……)
That’s what conventions are for. It’s like we enjoy mocking Star Trek fans for dressing like Klingons at their conventions but THAT’S what the cons are for!
In any case. You couldn’t be more right. What’s frustrating is that I have to sit and hope that the ex-head of the Harvard law Review, a brilliant orator and his staff can’t figure this stuff out. If I can, sitting in my teeny little house, watching the Daily Show, you’d think (read:hope) that they can divine it as well.
You’d think, right?????
In all honesty, I think the basic difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is that the Republicans don’t believe people are very smart and the Democrats do and each party plans their actions accordingly. It’s really that simple. Democrats still far too often go under the impression that if they lay out arguments, people are intelligent enough to listen and decide. Republicans know different and, frankly, better than that. And they play it to their advantage.
The Democrats still act like it’s politics as usual, the Republicans have long since moved on from that. History shows us again and again and again that it is very easy to manipulate the political actions of ordinary people and the easiest way to do that is to guide their conclusions, not trust them to make the right ones.
Cynical, yep, you bet. Me and the Republicans are a cynical lot, I guess.