Palin is a Pawn

Sara Palin said last night she wants to go to Washington to “serve the people of America.” But how do you serve the people when you don’t believe in Global Warming…when an overwhelming majority of Americans agree that, not only does it exist, but that we need to act on it—FAST! You are not serving the people, Mrs. Palin. When you ridicule Barack Obama’s history as a community organizer, where he was working to find jobs for out-of-work steel workers who were suffering under the Regan-era economics, you aren’t serving America. When you insist that the Democratic tax plan will do no good to help our suffering economy, and that, indeed, only LOWERING taxes will help, ignoring the simple fact that America is in recession right now specifically because of eight years of failed Republican economic planning, you are not serving the people. When you willfully ignore the sad state of our country experiencing an unemployment rate that has grown every month since January, instead clinging to empty, pseudo-patriotic rhetorical epithets, you are not serving our country. When our country is in the middle of the worst war since Vietnam and you willingly admit that you “don’t pay much attention to the war”, you are not serving our country, Mrs. Palin. Being a willfully ignorant, short-sighted Republican sycophant does not do service to America. You are being used as a pawn in the only way the modern Republicans know how to win an election: by swindling Americans. And Mr. McCain, when you sink so low as to ask this obviously flawed candidate to be your running-mate on the hope you can sell her ubber-conservative story and again swindle the American right into believing that you’ll actually overturn Roe v Wade, you, Mr. McCain, are not serving the American people. You are just trying to get elected. And you’re a maverick (read: Asshole).

To the right-winged people who feel revitalized by Sara Palin’s nomination, heed this warning: despite her views on abortion and her socially conservative ideology, no Republican President, and certainly not one up against a Democratic congress, NO REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT WILL EVER OVER TURN ROE v WADE. EVER! So don’t even think about voting for McCain/Palin if that’s your hope.

George Bush Jr., if you can use you’re obviously short-sighted minds to think back eight years ago (I know it hurts), used this same “rally the social-conservative base” approach to getting elected. And it worked. He even successfully packed his Supreme Court with conservative judges, tipping the court’s balance to a pro-life stance. He had every opportunity in the first six years of his presidency, enjoying, for the first time ever, both a Republican president and a Republican congress, to overturn Roe v Wade. But he didn’t. He had every opportunity to change the constitution to add an amendment that stated that marriage is only recognized as a union between a man and a woman. But he didn’t. In fact, pretty much every socially conservative item he ran on changing, he didn’t do anything about. Ask yourselves why he didn’t. Think about why he wouldn’t. Then think about why you voted for him. Then think about what he actually did. He started a wildly unpopular and unneeded war that has put us in a NINE TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT. He neglected to care for a city almost destroyed by a hurricane. He turned the Justice Department into a political arm of the Republican party and was associated with one of the most embarrassing resignations of a US Attorney Generals in history. And he legitimized torture as a practical approach to combating terrorism around the world. This is what your party stands for. This is what you’ll get with two more equally clueless people in the White House.

When will you learn that being cock-sure and obtuse is not a substitute for being a real leader?

When will you learn that being willfully ignorant of the world around you doesn’t make you a savvy politician?

When will you realize that the only reason John McCain is using his POW experience to get elected is because he knows that’s the only way he can get elected?

I’m sure you’ll scoff at that statement, but you know exactly what I’m talking about. I, again, ask you to think eight years back when McCain defiantly told his campaign strategist that he DID NOT want to make his experience in Vietnam a focal point in his campaign. So why is he doing it now? Maybe because he lost to the guy who used these same empty promises of social-conservative change to get elected and pseudo-patriotic rhetoric to get re-elected.

Yoda says, “Adaptive, this McCain is.”

I don’t know who you Republicans think you’re fooling. But that convention of yours looks more like a clan rally than a convention advocating anything substantive or truly important. I can, with no doubt, say that the only people your fooling…is yourselves.