The McCain Manifesto...The GOP SOS (Same Ole S...)

The McCain Manifesto… The GOP SOS (Same ole s…)

At 72 he should know better than to compete in words with a Harvard Liberal young enough to be his son…oops, didn’t we hear he’d fathered such? Blog news.

But here he is, a Willie Loman having difficulty with the teleprompter (age does better with golf than technology), and apparently with sticking to his original message. But it’s all about fool-the-public anyway, and flip-flops in politics are de rigueur. Only problem is the message itself—bashing the left and their failed ideas of the ‘60’s. Does he have a new idea that does not have Rovian fingerprints on it?

As if his gravitas weren’t enough, guess where the he launched his National Campaign—New Orleans, that swamp of failed GOP policy decisions by the current nest of inept idiots that sticks in the throat like a crawfish claw. Why of all places would he launch from there? As Scripture has it, “As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.”

But for Full Metal Mac, a Taibbi description of our hero, the dumbed-down SOS words of the GOP fall with a thud into the dust of empty town hall meetings and appeal to the public’s worst instincts.

Viewed through the smoke and mirrors of his words, it seems that the campaign is based on the two perennial concepts ever popular in the US since Nixon: Fear of Change and Hatred of Race. Mac The Martyr, survivor of a Hanoi torture regime, flails us with this injustice while he stumbles to the podium bearing the torch of the anti-Obama mob…Fear and hate do torch nerves!

Yet Mac is not without his own “inspirational” Jeremiah Wright. Get this: Mac’s hero is none other than the sleazy Joel Osteen, that plastic smiling Slick with the greasy coiffeur curls, gushingly pontificating the voguish “Name it and Claim it” Prosperity Gospel. O, how slimy politics has become in America!

So get ready, folks…the drumbeat of fear-mongering will get louder and drown out all sense with nonsense. It’s “us” and “them”—are you a “them” or an “us?” Divide and conquer as Nixon and Buchanan did to the South. It’s SOS in the GOP. We have now been put in the “cage” with Mac, re-living as it were a “collective suffering,” one might say. Hopefully through this ugly experiment he might finally rid himself of this stigma and the rest of the recently failed GOP initiatives and get to a happy ending.

Let me lighten it up for you. Get online www.Intrade.com, a website where you can bet (with real dollars!) on the outcome of events—weather, stocks, and Yes, politics...a virtual Las Vegas. Bets are stacking up 63.9% to 33.1%, Obama over McCain as President. Cast yours. Yet I like long shots, and in spite of the SOS GOP, I have faith, as the bumper sticker said:

“Old age and treachery will always overcome youth and vigor.”

Obama’s words, although hollow and ephemeral, emotionally aspire: “Too good to be true.” Mac’s words, “hate and fear,” evoke ancient emotions of evisceration. Soon you will get the opportunity to choose which words you prefer…as for me, I’m betting on the bumper sticker!


Bud
June 19, 2008