John Mccain/Sarah Palin = worse than George W. Bush

We all know McCain has sold his soul to win. Big mistake: the Democrats are taking the GOP bait, especially on Palin. She is the ultimate distraction. If we're not careful she'll be the final distraction. The perfect new celebrity -- Sarah Barracuda -- to capture the message in the 24-hour spin orgy, all the while attacking Obama as an elite celebrity. Any narrative that focuses on her -- any -- is a win for Republicans, carrying an undercurrent of race wars, gender wars, class wars. All ending with a debate on God and a return visit to Rev. Wright. Palin is a gateway drug to a back-alley brawl...with sass and sex. Wonderful.

Watch McCain repeat "maverick" 300 times a day, like a mantra, 'til Election Day. Republicans and hockey moms against corruption and Lear jets. Orwell for second graders: distraction and chaos, phony scandals and bullshit patriotics from the crew that would install an inexperienced neophyte -- not even put through the crucible of the national stage -- a heartbeat away from the greatest nuclear arsenal the world has ever known, and not blink. Darkest reptilian politics that speak to the ultimate calcified cynicism of Republicans.

Democrats need to...keep the focus relentlessly on the disastrous results of Bush/McCain/Republican rule. They need to remind voters of the disasters of the last seven-plus years. Specifically. And as people have been saying, we need to be mad as well as inspired. But John McCain is the Republican Party as much as Bush -- we need to be constantly reminded of the policies (and, yes, the crimes) that are threatening this country from within...war profiteering, taxpayer-funded mercenary armies and privatizing core functions of state, habeas corpus and warrantless wiretapping and presidential signing statements, and Katrina and justice department politicization, and phony intel and Abu Ghraib, rendition and torture.

If the Democratic leadership wants to disregard its base and continue to disregard the rule of law, they deserve to lose...and will. Let's hope the Obama campaign doesn't come to this conclusion 10 days out. He needs to articulate his vision of the future, but he also needs to articulate a version of reality. The fiercest urgency is needed now.

But some other fundamentals seem to be lost in the frenzy. McCain is no maverick, but it is worth understanding why the rabid right wing is cheering his call for government "reform" and to change "how government works at every level."

McCain won't just be more of the same -- it will be worse than Bush-Cheney -- using the disasters of the past eight years and the actual crises we face to double down on the American Enterprise/Heritage Foundation vision of government that desires, as Grover Norquist said, to shrink government until "we can drown it in a bathtub."

Now, no one in their right mind -- including reasonable independents and Republicans -- wants to double down on neocon ideology, but here comes the "maverick" and his economic advisers to use the crises we face to implement more "change" and "reform" to the system by privatizing everything in sight. Is this what the American people want? When they are aware of it, the answer is always no. It's the same bullshit re-branded...Ruin the government you are purporting to run and turn it over to privatization frenzy, creating a shadow government of private corporate rule...they will gut government and privatize everything in sight in the name of responding to the crises they helped engineer through Bush and Cheney. Their view of government is the reverse of the Hippocratic Oath: do harm and then when the patient is sick, give the wrong medicine, watch him die, and sell off the body parts.

They will destroy the Department of Energy, HUD and anything else they can get their hands on. With this crew, all you need to do is destroy government, privatize it and get out of the way, and then a magic utopia appears. Well, actually it doesn't, but a lot of connected people get rich, and in the privatized war business, blood money flows and a fuck of a lot of innocent people die. The numbers and the misery are staggering. The legacy of Bush/McCain is a legacy of shame. Any man that stood with this criminal administration should be forced to answer for it.

The Republicans have been ruinous and most of it stems from an ideology that leaves the government in ruins. McCain has been on board hook, line and sinker. He voted with Bush over 90% of the time. End of story.

It is fundamentally corrupt and dishonest to call it reform when leaders want to cripple government, then hand it over to private industry, usually subsidized by taxpayers, but for other people's profits. More like contempt for government.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-cusack/the-final-distraction-mcc_b_126672....

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[dayglowgreendoor]

She's a piece of shit. At best she's a piece of shit covered with whipped cream. That's right it's the Sarah Palin TURD SUNDAE!!!

Vote McBush/Turd Sundae for 2008 (that's only 8000 years since them dinosaurs was around)

[AluminumF0ilHead]

Too bad you wouldn't win the debate, idiot. The democrats have won all four of the debates acording to polls, not to mention professionals. Looks like you're the idiot who chose the losing side.

I just made up a Bullshit fact so that I can get a few of your dumbass racist McCain supporters on our side. Obviously, that's a little too much to hope for from retards.

[marbenro168]

LOS REPUBLICANOS SON UNA VERGUENZA PARA USA Y EL MUNDO,SOLO QUIEREN Q LOS RICOS SEAN MAS RICOS,EL PLAN DE SALUD DE OBAMA CLARO Q NO ES BUENO PARA LOS REPUBLICANOS PORQUE ELLOS SON DUENOS DE LAS FARMACEUTICAS Y LOS HOSPITALES,EL PLAN DE SALUD DE OBAMA SERIA EN GRAN DEFICIT PARA EL BOLSILLO DE LO S REPUBLICANOS.EL PLAN DE ESTOS ES SOLO BOYCOTTEAR LO LOGRADO POR OBAMA

[marbenro168]

LOS REPUBLICANOS SON UNA VERGUENZA PARA USA Y EL MUNDO,SOLO QUIEREN Q LOS RICOS SEAN MAS RICOS,EL PLAN DE SALUD DE OBAMA CLARO Q NO ES BUENO PARA LOS REPUBLICANOS PORQUE ELLOS SON DUENOS DE LAS FARMACEUTICAS Y LOS HOSPITALES,EL PLAN DE SALUD DE OBAMA SERIA EN GRAN DEFICIT PARA EL BOLSILLO DE LO S REPUBLICANOS.EL PLAN DE ESTOS ES SOLO BOYCOTTEAR LO LOGRADO POR OBAMA(ECONOMIA DESTRUIDA DESDE HACE 8 ANOS

[marbenro168]

LOS REPUBLICANOS SON UNA VERGUENZA PARA USA Y EL MUNDO,SOLO QUIEREN Q LOS RICOS SEAN MAS RICOS,EL PLAN DE SALUD DE OBAMA CLARO Q NO ES BUENO PARA LOS REPUBLICANOS PORQUE ELLOS SON DUENOS DE LAS FARMACEUTICAS Y LOS HOSPITALES,EL PLAN DE SALUD DE OBAMA SERIA EN GRAN DEFICIT PARA EL BOLSILLO DE LO S REPUBLICANOS.EL PLAN DE ESTOS ES SOLO BOYCOTTEAR LO LOGRADO POR OBAMA(ECONOMIA DESTRUIDA DESDE HACE 8 ANOS POR BUSH Q ES REPUBLICANO)

[R1PD1M3BAG]

FUCK YOU PEOPLE at least palin is behind the 2nd amendment i dont like mccain but at least palin supports our constitution fuck you liberal motherfuckers ALL of you get out of america if you think biden and obama is doing a good job results dont lie folks.RON PAUL 2012

[Devilslilangel4]

... i'd rather have a newbie for a president than a retired soldier who was cpatured who MOST likely would have just done a hitler and hit vietnam(or w.e country mccain was fighitn against i dont care becuase in the end it would have ultimately ended in a WW III)

[darthcertde]

Agh! God I hate her...

[usbang06]

Didn't you like it how Biden kept say "George Bushes" many times!