Feel the love. Embrace the slogan.
RE-BRANDING is good for the soul. It MUST be the "Maverick."
We have been told its MCCAIN's convention. Most assuredly it MUST be.
For whose else's would it be, if not McCain's?
Didn't "HE" pick a Fringe Woman as a VP?
Qualifications be damned.
OK, so our good buddy John McCain has his little moment in the sun.
"His" convention.
We have been told its MCCAIN's convention. Most assuredly it MUST be.
For whose else's would it be, if not McCain's?
We are intended to believe somehow that it IS his convention,
based upon the incredibly odd VP choice in Mrs Palin, if nothing else.
After all, there is little in the way of explanation why stronger VP candidates were tossed by the wayside. In favor of an unknown woman for a national position, arguably a heartbeat away from the most important position on the planet: A woman from a small backwater town in Alaska.
Maverick is as maverick does?
Forgive a moment while I pause & wonder if it was even his decision to pick an unqualified person.
We are supposed to believe this choice was a euphemistic "maverick" move & not that of a "loose cannon;" believe instead that the inappropriateness of a bad choice somehow makes it all right. Makes it the "McCain BRAND." NEW & IMPROVED with crunchberries.
Nevertheless, so very little of the Republican platform bears the trappings of what made McCain "famous." John McCain has drifted off most of the positions he once held. Tossed aside in the dash to the white house. All carried on the back of a persona which was written "Maverick" brand by his ad agency, despite his having embraced a very mainstream, albeit quirky Republican policy during this campaign. Should I presume this is anything different than a con job?
Funny what passes for "leadership" these days in the Republican Party.
A party thrown into disarray by scandal upon scandal is suddenly RE-BRANDED as "maverick."
I have to revisit Alice in Wonderland after she heard "Jabberwocky:"
Alice remarked
"It fills my head with ideas, though I don't know exactly what they are."
The buzzword McCain has adopted & mutated has a similar feel.
A party of the odd one who does not play well with others - and instead stomps off like a stubborn child having a tantrum. In retrospect, this doesn't seem so foreign to the past 8 years I've seen pass. What exactly is so very different from George W Bush in this?
Haven't we had 8 years of a mean, bungling & wreckless Gilligan already?wrecklessness.
Why look.
McCain's [apparently] picked a woman who's fringe herself!
Who believes odd things about the world, irrespective of better judgments available.
A woman who will sit on her child half a day after her water broke, while flying. In order to deliver in that backwater town. A child she must have already known was a Down's Syndrome baby. Perhaps that's why she wasn't too concerned about its well-being?
Family Values are Pliant in today's Republican Party
In Mrs Palin, we have a woman who espouses all these grand family values & endorses "abstinence only" sex ed for children & teenagers.
And indeed her own family exemplifies the poster child for the consequences of such a piss-poor policy.
A woman who indeed holds fringe worldviews, ignoring the global warming John McCain, at least through yesterday does NOT deny.
A woman who believes creationist fantasies should be given equal weight & offered as an alternative to science in your children's classrooms.
A woman, who at last report, belongs to a church which "speaks in tongues." Maybe not a foreign concept any more, but hardly mainstream.
A woman just loaded with fringe ideas to foist upon the rest of us!
Yes. John is a maverick all right. Bucking the guy he hugged so passionately.
And George W Bush has been the Gilligan on this island.
Problem is, this maverick, this "loose cannon" whether real or fabricated, has hugged the anchor on the SS Minnow & jumped overboard. And he expects us to follow him there.