John McCain thinks you’re an idiot, and he’s banking on it. With less than a month before the election, McCain/Palin refuse to acknowledge, let alone address, your concern about the economy or the war. Instead they figure that you’re more interested in the tabloid journalism character assassination that they’ll utilize for the last remaining campaign days.
I’m not shocked, but I am appalled and offended. It’s a desperate move from a desperate ticket that has been marred throughout September by poor judgement past and present. Its offensive to think that John McCain, a candidate who campaigns as a “change-bringing maverick” and who championed campaign reform, believes that he can use the “same old Washington” smear tactics and not expect you to notice.
John McCain has based his platform on “change is coming”, but a more appropriately slogan would be “Change you CAN’T Believe in”. How about change now, buddy?
Republican basers and pundits will rally behind McCain’s claims that Obama is a terrorist, Obama is black, Obama is a Muslim, or whatever they try to use against him, but what they don’t realize is the simple fact that middle-ground republicans, independents, and democrats are fed up with these kind of silly, high-school popularity contest politics.
Americans have shown themselves to be intelligent, resolve seeking independent thinkers more than ever these last few weeks. John McCain and the GOP refuse to acknowledge that. This isn’t the same country that elected Bush in 2004. Four years later, people are taking a more active role in government. They care a lot more now about what their representatives are doing because they’ve realized the perils of apathy.
This is a country that is begging for change. This is a country that feels bamboozled by government and resentful of the current economic and foreign policy. This is a country that has made some poor electoral decisions in the not so distant past, and to her credit, this is a country that has learned her lesson.
McCain and his smear tactics will not work. We are better than that. We want to know policy and issues, not People magazine. Independent and moderate voters are not dumb, and will not be won over by fear mongering and yellow journalism any longer.
Frankly it’s offensive that in this terrible economic and foreign policy debacle that we’re in, John McCain would try to dodge our questions and focus on irrelevant character assassination attempts. He and the GOP should be ashamed of themselves.
This election will bring the end of the Republican party as we know it. Thank God.
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I hate to retreat into the old stand-by that this is “a new day and a new time” - but that really is the truth and this commentary captures that.
Here is the why: back in 2000, things were going so well that a good portion of the country felt that we could alter course and go with a “compassionate conservative”, as he promised to repair the degradation of the White House (which an honest assessment would report had become somewhat tarnished). Then - after the attacks of 2001 - we were a nation in fear and changing course in 2004 was just a bit to much to ask in that year, although it was quite close and some things were kept hidden from the public that might have changed our minds.
Hurricane Katrina unmasked the Republicans and the sham government they were operating. Newspapers began to reveal what they knew of the President’s warrant-less wiretapping program and an Attorney General was forced to resign in shame. And now the house of cards has all collapsed in a $1T bailout of our economy.
It is indeed, a new day.
Mikey,
Your diligent political activism and optimism lights a fire in the cockles of my heart. Despite the fact that McCain’s politics of late bear aggression that is more befitting of a rabid dog than a weathered politician, I still log online every day and see comments to the tune of “Obama must be stopped!” The attacks and reasoning of those that fall behind the McCain camp have become so righteous and so closed-minded that I begin to wonder if there is any semblance of logic and understanding at all.
While this causes me a great deal of stress, reading your blog reminds me that the majority of Americans are wiser and grander than this smaller, although adamant, contingent. I have faith that racism, hate, and fear will give way to reason, hope, and the rising tide of change.
Rock on, sucka.
well said buddy