John McCain has become a tool of the republican strategy of political obfuscation and mendacity. You know this, right? I think Bush is trying to turn it into a Cabinet position. These are the people - Karl Rove and his scion, Steve Schmidt - so adept at selling the “Big Lie.”
The "Big Lie" is a spurious talking point sung ad nauseum by the republican chorus. Repeated often enough, easily manipulated and weak-minded people eventually end up repeating it as fact...you know, like WMD's and a link between Iraq and 9/11? But I digress.
This week’s “Big Lie” involves the birth of those two maverick superheroes of political reform: the Agents of Change! They are better known as septuagenarian John McCain and his trusty sidekick, Sarah Palin. You might not know it to look at them, but Steve Schmidt would have you believe that McCain and Palin are here (on a mission from god) to wipeout the kind of establishment politics that have brought this country so low over the past eight years. And who is their arch villain? Who personifies the evil, Washington “status quo”? You guessed it. Barack Obama.
You see, first McCain tried to sell the idea that Obama didn’t have enough experience to be president. Clearly…we are all better served with someone older. Much older. Regardless of the fact that McCain shows the kind of judgment usually reserved for hookers in need of a fix (or in his case, a drowning man in need of a conservative, feminine life preserver). Schmidt and McCain tried to sell the concept that Obama was a neophyte. He couldn’t be trusted to run the country…because he was so new to Washington politics that he wouldn’t have the sense to answer the phone at 3:00 in the morning when all of Western civilization was crumbling around him. But that didn’t get the kind of traction they needed, and it was confounded by the choice of Sarah Palin as a partner in crime (she, of so little experience in politics that she doesn’t even know what the Vice President does for a living).
So enter the new “Big Lie” which paints Obama as the status quo. Excuse me? What kind of BS are the Republicans trying to sell now? If anyone is the status quo, it’s John McCain – who sounds so much like the Crawford Cowboy these days it would be impossible to tell them apart (except for the liver spots). Well, I’m not buying this or any of John McCain and Steve Schmidt's “Big Lies” because the Big Lies distract everyone from the little inconvenient truths…also known as “issues.”
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Here's the problem with the premise that weak-minded people believe anything if repeated enough time: Obama should have enough cash to bomb McCain's ads into the stone age, and I fear that the American public will STILL be desperate to cling to any excuse that enables them to cast a "safe" vote for McCain.
All these white women didn't jump ship because they were fooled on the issues; they don't CARE about the issues, at least not as much as they care about validation and playing it safe. The same holds true for zealots, dimwits, and the plain old selfish who still look for validation in the GOP, and if they don't look too closely, they'll find it. -E
I agree, Eric, that a lot of people don't care...and also choose to look the other way. But that doesn't explain the media, who seem to have lost any sort of objectivity.
And I don't believe all weak minded people will believe something if repeated often enough...George Bush certainly heard enough times that there was no link between Iraq and 9/11...but that didn't stop him from being the head cheerleader in a chorus of lies.
Anyway - thanks for the post. And I agree 100% - the white women who have jumped ship don't care about the issues. Race is their motivating factor...otherwise they wouldn't support a woman (palin) who would strip them of their freedom of choice.
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