Someone said recently that I may have been being too harsh on the Republicans. It has been suggested that I am furthering some political agenda by bashing the Right over the Left. The fact of the matter is that, simply, the Republicans are being a-holes.
At least in a more overt and public manner than the Dems.
I don’t begrudge anyone a political view. Being an independent is almost blasphemous in this day and age. I have views that fall on both the conservative and progressive side of the fence. In this heated “us vs. them” atmosphere, not choosing a side is a sin. Well, I take a radical view: I don’t pick sides. I pick issues, and I pick candidates. John McCain seems like a man of great integrity. I don’t for a second think he is running for president for glorification. I think he cares, and I think he would make a good president. I think that way of many Republicans; Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Pete Hoekstra, Colin Powell, to name just a very few. But if you’re going to be a hypocrite, a liar, a hate monger or an all-out douche-bag, I’m going to call you on it.
I’m lookin’ at you, Palin.
There have been so many cases of corruption in the Republican party that you would think people would be running from the banner, instead of hiding behind it. Sure, the Democrats have Eliot Spitzer to be ashamed of, but the GOP has so many more. Larry Craig, head of the Senate Ethics committee, arrested for soliciting men’s room sex. Hypocrisy? You betcha. How ‘bout an ‘ethics reformer’ who fired the State safety commissioner because he wouldn’t fire her ex-brother-in-law during her sister’s custody battle? That’s the woman running for the V.P. office. “Troopergate,” as it has ridiculously become to be called, is the best example of jack-assery I can think of. The Palin gubernatorial administration gave written agreement to testify in the investigation. “Hold me accountable,” were her exact words. Now she, her husband, and several members of her staff are choosing to ignore subpoenas. Not without precedent. Bush officials have been ignoring them for years. Even Bush’s aids have been told to ignore them. Scooter Libby, Andrew Card, Karl Rove…no legal action will be brought against them. Anyone else in this country would be arrested. It’s a travesty. Now our Veep hopeful is starting before she even gets in office. And no one will do a thing about it.
Even McCain is getting in on the fun. The tenor of attack ads by the Obama camp is that John is out of touch, and his policies not appropriate for a president, today. I wouldn’t call that overly harsh. I wish the McCain camp did battle that way. Instead, the ads are blatant attacks of character, most of them so obviously untrue as to be insulting. Even Karl Rove has said that “McCain has gone, in some of his ads, similarly [one] step too far in sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the 100% truth test." Dude. Karl Rove just called you a liar. That’s like the devil calling you an evil son-of-a-bitch. Or Dom Deluise calling me fat.
So don’t tell me I’m giving the Republicans a hard time. They should be giving themselves a hard time, calling out the bad seeds among them, and culling them. If they want to cement a permanent conservative majority, they need to stick to the values they run on, like ethics, morals, freedom and justice. Because ignoring them only makes them look bad, even when we know they all aren’t.
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