This video needs to go viral!
The McCain campaign now has an ad up about this lipstick nonsense, and frankly, I've been frustrated in watching Obama's surrogates on the airwaves fail to note that John McCain himself used the "Lipstick on a Pig" line not too long ago. In fact, TPM Election Central notes that McCain has used the lipstick line three times. Below the flip is the video of John McCain using the lipstick on a pig line in referring to Hillary Clinton's health care plan in October of 2007.
Here's McCain uttering the famous "lipstick on a pig" line in October 2007:
Notice the laughter and guffawing following McCain's use of the phrase.
The Obama Campaign needs to get this video to every news channel, and if they fail to bite on it, consider getting an ad up quick showing just how hypocritical the McCain campaign has become in releasing lipstick smear attack ads, when McCain himself has been using the EXACT SAME LINE against Democrats like Hillary Clinton.
McCain-Palin have demonstrated that they're willing to lie and do just about anything else to win this election, and I've watched in disbelief as media pundits have gone along with it, hoping to generate excitement and ratings by trying to make the closer that it actually is. Heck, even the pollsters are artificially skewing their polls to oversample Republicans to generate an artificial bounce for McCain. When even the media and pollsters are drinking the McCain-Palin Kool-Aid, fictional poll bounces sadly can become reality. Sadly, none of this helps address the extraordinary economic problems average Americans are facing, like unemployment, lack of health insurance, home foreclosures, soaring gas prices, and our failing public schools.
The fact is that the American economy is tanking because Bush-McCain have driven it into the ground, and we now have record unemployment levels topping 6 percent. McCain-Palin are hoping to run a campaign of deception and obfuscation to hide just how abysmal things are in this country. Because McCain-Palin have nothing substantive to run on (except giving Big oil record tax breaks and a license to ravage the environment in Alaska and elsewhere), they are now running a make-believe maverick campaign that really offers more of the same failed policies of the past eight years.
Obama-Biden has nailed the McCain campaign on its total hypocrisy, and they need to follow up with a McCain Lipstick Ad to drive home the point. Let's keep reminding folks that McCain-Palin represents a continuation of Bush-Cheney AND is the most radically conservative presidential ticket America has ever seen.
Update - 10:30 AM:
JSN in the comments notes how McCain, Cheney, and Tancredo have all used the lipstick on a pig trope repeatedly, and yet there was not a single word of outrage among conservatives back then:
Let me add..these additional Republican uses of this old trope:
Representative Tom Tancredo (R-CO) June 19, 2007:
"It's a pig. Even if they keep slathering lipstick on this pig, it's still a pig."
and
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) February 1, 2007:
"You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig in my view." (Laughter.)
not to mention
Vice President Dick Cheney October 26, 2004:
"We have a saying out in Wyoming for something like this, you can put all the lipstick you want on a pig, but it's still a pig." (Laughter and applause.)
In addition to the above video, that's at least twice McCain has used it. At least.
I only have one question:
Why do Republicans HATE Palin sooooo much that they intentionally dissed her like this, months before she even ran for vice president?...
When will the media cover the Republicans apology to the Republicans?