So McCain-Palin spokesperson Michael Goldfarb has accused the Obama campaign of encouraging a “Swift Boat–style" attack on McCain’s honor and patriotism. Forget that the spot questioned neither -- only the guy’s temperament, and the idea that having been a war prisoner somehow in itself indicates Oval Office fitness.
But why stop with Swift Boats? Now that oil is so scandalous again, why not accuse Obama/Biden of Teapot Dome-ing 'em?
Teapot Dome Service Station, Yakima Valley Hwy near Zillah, WA. National Park Service photo.
Don’t you just love it when the best the Republicans can come up with to try to tarnish a Democrat is with a comparison to their own previous heinous behavior?
But, as long as the McCain people keep trying to transfer past Republican transgressions, don’t you think it might backfire in reminding people of something? So, by all means, let's beg them not to stop with just Swift Boat accusations. For example, what about:
Watergate-style burglary?
Ellsbergian psychiatric pilferage?
Iran Contra-style bartering?
Super-Duper-Troopergate
Spiro Agnew-style corruption?
Jack Abram-oaffish vote buying and con-artistry?
Teapot Dome-style scandal?
Grant-like alcoholism?
Nixonian impeachable offenses?
Craigy restroom etiquette?
A FEMA-style heck of a job?
A Reagan-style deficit?
Palinesque earmarkery?
W-think?
‘NAFTA-worry about, thankyouverymuch?
Cheney-like warmth?
Earl Butts-style racial sensitivity?
Rumsfeldian honesty with the American people?
Mark Foleyesque emailery?
Rovian chicanery
Spanish-American warmongering?
Quaylish spelling?
DeLay of Congress?
Sherman Adamsy Vicuna Coatery?
Hey, didn’t that last one also involve the McCain spokesman? Oh, sorry, that was Bernard GoldFINE. You youngsters may have to look that one up. Nev-er-mind.
But what is this? People throwing their own stones at their own 7 glass houses? (Yes, the good senator from AZ has one for each day of the week. He takes these as a medical deduction, because without them, he says he can't remember what day it is.) I got ya' swift boat right HERE!!!
Surely y’all can add some more? It’s so hard to keep track.
For other swift-boat-snarkery within the past week, see also:
SwiftSledding, FrozenWatergate and other Hillaryous Cheap Shots
and
Dems. Outraged as Palin Disses Older Women.
The Teapot Dome Service Station pictured was erected in 1922 as an "homage" to the Harding Administration Teapot Dome Scandal, involving the leasing of government oil reserves in the ANWR -- er, excuse us -- Teapot Dome, Wyoming. (Incidentally, this whimsical style structure is known as "folly" architecture.)