The Puppet Vote
There was a time near the beginning of this Presidential campaign that I actually thought that McCain might not be all that bad. He was one of the most liberal Republicans to burble to the surface in a long time. And then he tapped Palin as a running mate and I started scratching my head and wondering what in the world he was doing. He certainly wasn’t putting her on the ticket because she was the best person for the job… I mean, come on, he couldn’t find anyone else among the entire Republican party with more experience? He should be picking the most able person for the position, right? Apparently not.
Apparently the only thing that matters is snowing the American public into believing exactly what you want them to believe. Palin was picked for only one reason- she has a vagina. The votes of women were up for grabs thanks to bad blood in the Clinton campaign, so why not throw a female, ANY female up on stage and rally around the flag. I can just picture the top Republican political operatives sitting in a room trying to find a female to add to the short list. Suddenly one of them remembers the attractive woman in Alaska… “Alaska? Oh hell… but she’s pretty, right?”
And it worked, suckers that we are. Hurting middle-income religious families everywhere rejoiced that there was now a candidate on the ticket that “they could relate to.” Wow, what a bunch of complete idiots we are. Would YOU like to sit down and try to talk serious politics with a seasoned veteran like say, Vladimir Putin? Or how about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran? They could care less about her “down-home” (read: Gomer Pyle) speaking style or Hockey Mom mentality. They aren’t looking for generalities and simpleton answers. Sarah Palin would get eaten for lunch by either of them, and the United States would be a mockery to the rest of the world.
So, not more than a week ago, McCain was rushing back to Washington, setting aside his political differences, so that he could “help get the nation out of the economic mess it was in.” Well, that didn’t work out so well, and he quietly recused himself to the children’s table so the adults could actually get some work done.
In other words, it, like everything else in his campaign, has been nothing more than a series of political ploys to gain emotional votes from those who are too stupid to recognize when they are being played. And now, since the last hand that was dealt to them isn’t working out so well, it seems they have found a new card to play. Or rather, an old card, smoothed out and polished up to look like something new. It’s a dirty, nasty card…. a Last Resort card. It’s the “Obama is a Terrorist” card.
Mind you, they don’t come right out and say that. Instead they say that he’s hanging around with terrorists. Never mind that the (one) guy they are referring to (Bill Ayers) is currently a university professor and that the riot and bomb conspiracy charges against him were dropped in 1974 when Obama was 8. You might ask why they would make such ridiculous claims. And the answer is because they know that there are enough idiots out there who will actually believe them and then shorten the whole story to just “Obama is a terrorist.”
So if you’re tired of having someone else pull your puppet strings while they turn our economy into (yet another) global disaster, cut yourself loose this year and please vote Democrat.