I'm Done.

[oselle]

As far as I'm concerned John McCain has won this election.

I was away last week but I caught some of the Republican convention and it left my jaw on the floor. Nothing but petty, sneering, mocking attacks on Barack Obama, the kind of vicious, infantile shit that belongs on Fandom Wank, not on the national political stage and not when the future of the country is at stake.

Meanwhile...the Democrats can't say a word about McCain without a lengthy, fawning preface about all his sacrifice, service and integrity.

The McCain campaign is working round the clock to obstruct justice and shut down an ongoing corruption investigation into Sarah Palin, even as they hide her from the press so they can have time to turn an ignorant, unqualified extremist into something that can weather a debate and a few softball interviews.

Meanwhile...more than half the country (according to recent polls) has fallen head-over-heels for this adorable "pit bull in lipstick" and isn't it funny how Hillary Clinton was pilloried as a shrill bitch but Palin is lauded as a delightfully refreshing "barracuda?"

McCain tells people to "stand up and fight" while ignoring the fact that the reason we need to fight is because his party has been in power for eight years.

Meanwhile...this shameless liar is trailing Obama by only a few points.

People, look at what's going on. The Republicans are twisting this election, focusing on the politics of personality while diverting and avoiding any real discussion of issues BECAUSE THEY CAN'T AFFORD TO DISCUSS THE ISSUES and you know what? The press and the people of America and the Democrats are helping them do it.

I don't want to talk about this shit anymore. I've already had one conservative concern troll over here chastising me for my "vitriol" towards McCain, the same "can't we all play nice" hankie-wringing bullshit I saw so much of four years ago. I'm done. I want to talk about Dean Winchester. I want to talk about Supernatural. I want to finish my fanfic. And there are plenty of better places than here for information and I urge you, I BEG you to take advantage of them:

Crooks and Liars: One stop shopping for all your reality-based news.

Balloon Juice: No holds barred, take no prisoners blogging from a Republican in recovery.

Digby's Hullabaloo: Always dead on the money analysis, especially of our useless press corps.

Glenn Greenwald: This guy tells it like it is until it hurts.

Stay informed. Question everything. Make sure you're registered to vote. Pray for a miracle.

Comments

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I have to say, even I was shocked at the speeches at the GOP convention being nothing more than saying things about Obama in a nasty voice. It's scary because there's honestly nothing decent they won't shit on--which makes it all the more ridiculous when they pretend to want some higher form of discourse. They showed how much they really cared about military service 4 years ago when they wore band aids to mock John Kerry's war wounds, and now I'm supposed to believe they respect McCain because of his military service? If he were the Democratic nominee they'd be mocking that too.

Just as faced with the idea of somebody graduating college and getting a job where he thinks he's helping people, they mock that. (I loved Jon Stewart's sum up of that attitude: Fuck you, people who want to make a difference in your community! You're a bunch of losers!)

With Palin also, again, they're already twisting the discussion the way they want it to go again, even by demanding people admire the woman for being a working mother while openly trying to make it as hard as possible to be a working mother. I remember people used to talk about that moment where McCarthy was asked "Have you no shame?" but that moment is long past with these people.

Sorry. Don't know where that rant came from. Except the obvious place, I guess. Lazarus Came Forth rocks!

[oselle.livejournal.com]

If McCain were a Democrat they'd be mercilessly mocking the fact that he'd been a POW -- He couldn't escape the Viet Cong, how's he gonna face Bin Laden?

If Palin were a Democrat they would have already shredded her over her out-of-wedlock pregnant teen daughter -- Are THESE the sort of values we want in the White House? -- and the fact that she went back to work a mere three days after giving birth to a severely disabled child. Everything from her hairdo to her clothes would be fair game for mockery.

I hate to say it but the Democrats need to start playing on that level. If you need to wrestle with pigs you're gonna have to get down in the mud.