That's what a CO delegate on the floor of the GOP Convention said that he wants from a McCain/Pslin administration. (Hour 2 or 3 of Pacifica convention coverage on 9/4/08) He too wants change and could articulate what he means by change: "more war and less taxes." With questioning, he put some meat on those bones.
Q – More with with who?
A – Iran.
Q – Why?
A – To protect Israel.
Q – What would that look like?
A – Bomb, baby, bomb. No troops. Or let Israel bomb them..
Q – Have you thought about how we'd pay for it?
A – Blow up the place and take the oil, They should pay us for the war.
How can one not laugh at that degree of ignorance? As we've already taken over a country with far more oil reserves than Iran has and the price of gas at the pump has doubled, I'm hard pressed not to conclude that that guy is a moron.
What I keep forgetting is that McCain remains stuck not in the Vietnam War but in that era: The Cold War. He was fighting in the Vietnam theater of the Cold War. Next stop after Hanoi was Beijing and then on to Moscow. His consciousness was formed before it was generally accepted that there would be no winner in a nuclear exchange. Even Truman who authorized the use of nukes, appreciated the insanity of that position and understood how many crazies were in the Armed Forces. In 1964, "nuking Vietnam" was often stated as the solution to that conflict. (The "Daisy Ad" wasn't hyperbole; it was the antidote the country needed.)
In McMansionLand, the items on his "to do list" have been renumbered. Moscow first and Beijing later. The road now begins in Baghdad and Tbilisi and not Saigon. China only has our money, but Russia has our oil. As Native American know all too well that debts and treaties with the US Government aren't worth the paper their written on. As Winter Rabbit detailed,some Navajo and Hopi already know that McCain honors that tradition.
Simple world for simple minds. And Senator Fight-Fight-Fight who hasn't learned "The Google" is going to the build the economic bridge to the future. The future of Drill, Baby, Drill. In a morass of lies, the GOP has finally ripped off one of its old masks to proudly, blatantly snarl, "Yeah, it's all about oil. Take that you fucking tree huggers." Lefties no longer need tinfoil hats and special GOP decoder rings. McCain/Palin (dumb & dumber) don't have to hide behind misstatements. With impunity they can Lie, Baby, Lie.
Yet since the dawn of my political consciousness, substantial evidence to the contrary, I've clung to the notion that American voter stupidity isn't a bottomless pit. Election after election I was sure that we'd hit rock bottom and only later begrudgingly acknowledged that we hadn't. But surely, Bush/Cheney must be the nadir. Why then isn't America laughing along with the whole world at Fibber McGoo and sugar-frosted Lilith?