McCain’s VP pick – “Foward to the Past!” Brilliant political theater!
August 30th, 2008 by Larry Bellinger Posted in Politics, UncategorizedFrom a purely political point of view, McCain’s choice of Palin was a masterstroke. He had slung the entire kitchen; range, sink and refrigerator at Obama and had closed the stupid daily polling figures. So what next? Pawlenti? Romney? Ridge? What does any of them do for McCain who has already used up his best stuff? Drawing on the historic race/gender (1st black man as opposed to first white woman) issue and having the Hillary Clinton campaign to wield as a smoke screen, the decision to put Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, a right wing ideologue, on the ticket to satisfy the red-meat conservative base was brilliant.
The POW hero and the Hockey mom.
They will talk her up as a “maverick” to re-bolster McCain’s BS reputation for being the independent guy he used to be… before he gave his balls to Bush in SC eight years ago and never took ‘em back.
“She fought against her own party! She is a reformer and a maverick!”
Big freakin’ deal. She turned down money for a superfluous pork barrel project bridge that had been thoroughly scorned by the entire news media and the butt of late night TV host’s monologues. To me, that is the equivalent of hearing men say, “I take care of my kids!”, as if that is some kind of big accomplishment.
Ignore for the moment that in order to win, the GOP needs to have a ticket that swears it will fight its own party, the party that has been in total control of the government for most of the last eight years.
This maneuver, by the Karl Rove crew running this campaign, is going back to the Lee Atwater playbook, which is to divide the country in half and win 51-49 per cent by any means necessary.
For right now, and if they are very lucky, for the next week, the GOP convention will drive the news cycles. McCain’s campaign has to hope this will ignite the conservative base and that base will now get behind McCain without having to hold their noses.
The question is: will white folks, the “hard-working Americans”, so eloquently described by Senator Clinton, stop screwing themselves and vote for once go into the voting booth humming, “We Don’t get Fooled Again!”
One Response to “McCain’s VP pick – “Foward to the Past!” Brilliant political theater!”
By Wayne on Aug 31, 2008
Did McCain not mention ETHICS when introducing Gov Palin? Using it as one of his selling points for her nomination? I find it interesting that two meetings was all he needed to discern this in her character. While meanwhile, an investigation of her abuse of power in office is ongoing. Yes, McCain is a gambler but when you are holding a pair of deuces and your opponent has three aces showing a bluff raise doesn’t always work. “Don’t Get Fooled Again”