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sophiaserpentiaRepublican campaign rhetoric has become so far detached from meaning and reality that they are at this point staging the first dada presidential campaign in history. I suppose it was the inevitable next step after the "war on Christmas" and "liberal fascism" and other megaWTF nonsense.
For example: McCain presenting himself as the "candidate for change" when he has voted with the president 95% of the time. He's talking like he wants to "throw the bums out" but the only "bums" he's really talking about are the "liberal establishment" of Washington. Um, what liberal establishment? The narrow Democratic majority? Interesting, especially since Senate Republicans have staged more filibusters in the last two years than had been done by anyone in the previous 230 years combined.
It's like they're standing in town square shouting "Lincoln's mother's dog! Vote for me!"
The really fascinating thing about this is, that the polls say so far it's working. Obama's been incredulously exclaiming, "Come on, you can't just make stuff up," but apparently you can, if you repeat it often and loudly enough.
For example: McCain presenting himself as the "candidate for change" when he has voted with the president 95% of the time. He's talking like he wants to "throw the bums out" but the only "bums" he's really talking about are the "liberal establishment" of Washington. Um, what liberal establishment? The narrow Democratic majority? Interesting, especially since Senate Republicans have staged more filibusters in the last two years than had been done by anyone in the previous 230 years combined.
It's like they're standing in town square shouting "Lincoln's mother's dog! Vote for me!"
The really fascinating thing about this is, that the polls say so far it's working. Obama's been incredulously exclaiming, "Come on, you can't just make stuff up," but apparently you can, if you repeat it often and loudly enough.
