My friends, last week MissLaura aptly framed McCain's attempted theft of Van Halen's "Right Now."
Heart agrees that Palin's a "Barracuda".
And all week, Obama supporter and living legend Chuck Berry's famous "Johnny Be Good" was used as McCain's theme, even though Berry pointedly begged McCain off.
But I couldn't help but wonder if anyone was listening to the song's opening lines, hilariously ubiquitous at the convention that was supposedly "respectful" of the Gulf Coast's plight and trying to shake off memories of Katrina:
Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans
Way back up in the woods among the evergreens
There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B Good
Who never ever learned to read or write so well
A log cabin made of earth and wood? Make that nine houses.
There's more...
During live-blogging, I mentioned that I heard the "Dallas" theme quoted incessantly as a sort of aural cue between speakers. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed it.
This makes sense, though. I heard the "Dallas" theme on Wednesday, Sarah Palin's night, and "Dallas" helped bring together two themes that had been lurking around in my brain: that her family is very large and a little bit weird, and that she's a pawn to oil interests. But the musical reference, hammered into our sub-conscious, seemed intentional: at one point it played during a montage linking McMaverick to being "a foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution," and that's really what the musical reference seemed to be all about, to appeal to McCain's chief demographic: people who wish it were still 1982.
(As a side point, that's also why McCain is underperforming in the polls. You see, it seems that his most ardent supporters' rotary telephones have been acting up. And occasionally, a left-leaning neighbor will pick up another phone on the same party-line, the operator will get confused, and the pollster will wonder why a mysterious "John Anderson" is polling at 6%/snark)
Meanwhile, as Sarah Palin scrambles to explain a dossier of grade-b scandals and seems weeks away from being able to offer any sort of regular most basic press availability, perhaps she should take "Heart" from the words of "Barracuda":
And if the real thing don't do the trick
You better make up something quick
You gonna burn, burn, burn, burn, burn it out to the wick
One final note: McCain loves Abba's pathetic "Take a Chance on Me." Do me a favor. Consider the desperately creepy tone of Abba's lyrics, and watch about ten seconds of these two videos back to back.
If you aren't 150% creeped out by John McCain by then, I'll make a three dollar donation to the Orange To Blue candidate of your choice.
(WARNING: AS I LISTEN AGAIN TO THAT LAST YOUTUBE CLIP, THERE'S A VERY BAD WORD AT THE END. N.B.)