Trophy Kills
"Sarah Palin... knows how to properly field dress a moose."
Is this what America, verily the world, needs more of right now; people who can shoot and gut large ungulates in the field? At least the sparsely distributed delegates of the GOP listening to former senator and actor (what is it with Republicans and actors: Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sonny Bono) Fred Thompson, seemed to be saying with their vociferous cheers and enthusiastic applause. Is this perhaps the kind of real-world appeal we can all relate to that is going to sell us on Palin's shocking nomination?
Yikes.
If you had the stomach for the patriotic pap, or the tolerance to endure the same Conservative cowboy whipping the same dead horse, you know, the horse that died of a thousand (tax) cuts?, or the good ol' boy, no nonsense of "drain the swamps, damn the gators"?, if you persevered, you would have been rewarded with turncoat Joe Lieberman's ironic and at times awkwardly received speech...
Picture longtime Democrat, running mate to Gore in 2000, Lieberman decrying "Republican corruption", or Republican Washington's disastrous last 8 years, and best of all blaming partisan politics for all that ails the US ... in front of a gargantuan waving flag and a rabidly partisan Republican mob. It was garish and bizarre!
When the eager to be eager crowd wasn't chanting U-S-A like college cheerleaders, they fell quiet at some of Lieberman's remarks. It was especially uncomfortable when Thompson explained that McCain couldn't even salute his own flag because he can't raise his arms above his shoulders. Now, a man's disability used to make political hay is painful enough, but not so hard to watch as a young Marine's tragic death used to wring even more nationalism from the already zealous crowd.
What kind of morbid sensibility decides to vote based on such macabre examples as these?
Meanwhile, outside, in the RNC DMZ, legal protesters were being treated, with gas and batons, to the kind of "freedom and security" that young, mostly poor, soldiers will continue being sent to die for.
posted by Atomos @ 20:31
2 Comments:
yup, you're bang-on with this. Listening to Palin's speech, with its insane mantra of "more drilling," "more nuclear power," and its chilling critism that Obama worries only about "reading Al-Qaida suspects their rights"--well, I thought for a moment I was watching one of Mr Burns's rants on the Simpsons. And then I thought: can one find any cause for optimism about the world when watching an arena full of Republicans? Help!
Hey, thanks.
Despite Palin's impressive delivery of a well written speech, the platform (if it can even be called a platform and not just intense emotional positions) is really the disturbing part of the party... oh, and that delegate with the "Hoosiers for the Hot Chic!" button; he was super scary. lol
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