Today's topic for discussion is:
| The sky is cloudy, but there still isn't any rain. |
| posted at: 15:56 | permanent link to this entry |
[Pardon the lengthy post, but my mental clouds are finally raining today.] It's been a very long, drawn-out election cycle, now we're down to the last month and a half until Election Day. And what do we have? "Lipstick", "Pigs", "uppity {implied negroes}" (Correct translation supplied by David Gergen (h/t GriftDrift), and fake outrage directed to anyone who dares question the lies. What the hell is going on? Simply put: what's left of the GOP is a bunch of goddamned taliban, as evidenced by Eisenhower's departure; the July campaign takeover; Governor Palin's reprisal of President Bush's role as "Living vessel of Jesus in the White House" (h/t Creative Loafing); the resulting uprising of support from our taliban. It's clear that Senator McCain is along for the ride from here on out. Worst case, he's just been a secondary booster stage for our taliban. A "Cynical Pick" on a Good DayThis undeath is a tragic result to a lengthy campaign, but it was probably the only option available to McCain, for him to stay relevant in the election. The ongoing taliban belligerence of the past fourteen years, combined with seven years (dated from the Kyoto non-submission) of propaganda from various socialist factions, and an Democrat election strategy of inheritance, has resulted in a lemming run for the Democrats. As revealed now, the GOP is literally nothing without its taliban component. In the current environment, McCain was likely facing the options of either (a) losing the nomination outright, or (b) reducing the GOP to a minor party, worth 10-15% come November. (In this scenario, the departed 30% either stay home, or vote for Bob Barr, who as a member of the 1994 uprising and Clinton impeachment prosecutor, carries proven "Jesus vessel" credentials). Given the choice between reclaiming the party (and to a larger degree, the national dialogue) and winning the election, McCain chose the former, and less honorable, choice. Shortened DaysThe clock is ticking, and the Palin campaign is trying to run it out. We're less than a month from the cutoff for political ads, and only a month and a half away from the election. Every day the GOP can hide Palin, or obfuscate via spam, FUD, or other misinformation, is a day less they have to worry about the election. By their composition, taliban (talibanen?) are reliant on their church/clergy structures for information. For these factions, outward-facing bandwidth (aka "media not aligned with the faction") is superfluous, and is designated for either pollution (e.g., the 'lipstick/pig' non-issue), or coercion into acting on faction terms. The campaign is now a rhetorical tar-baby, seeking to entangle both legitimate and orthogonal discussion in a sticky morass of meta arguments and false outrage. Palin is the withheld bait, the operatives and spokespeople are the tar fonts. Meanwhile, the electoral equivalent of armies of the undead, a.k.a. our taliban, march toward November in unison. Don't kick the tar-babyThere correct way to deal with a tar-baby is to acknowledge its presence, and accurately describe the intent of its creators, as I have done here. The second-worst thing one can do is directly address the tar-baby, and the worst thing one can do is indirectly address the tar-baby. The fact that the bait for this particular trap is a vice-presidential nominee.
So, I retract my earlier post that claims the saying involves a goat. "Lipstick on a pig" correctly addresses this situation. However, it is McCain and Palin who are the lipstick on a virulent, tempermental, graft-eating, bible-squealing pig of a party, and Senator Obama was incorrect in stating the pig was policy. It is that party, and its true, unamerican nature, which must be addressed publicly and honestly before this election, and we're running out of time. |
| posted at: 15:55 | permanent link to this entry |