Senator McCain has once again made my head spin. Once, the bastian of principles in the Republican party, he has surprised me yet again with his complete supplication to the fear-driven, polarizing campaign strategies of the disciples of Karl Rove. Have they spiked they medication? Did they speak to him in tongues and hypnotized him out of his mind? Readers may mock my crazy theories about why he’s lost his way, but how else can you explain his complete collapse in message?
He continues to say the word R-E-F-O-R-M, but when it comes out of his mouth it sounds weak and disingenuous. It sounds truly weird.
Senator McCain, have you seen the ads they’ve produced for you sir? And then have you listened to yourself?? Perhaps not. So let’s take the latest example. The other day, you released an ad with an ominous tagline, “THE ECONOMY IN CRISIS…” and headlines about bank failures, foreclosures, and locusts (I’m kidding about the locusts). And yet that VERY SAME DAY, you were quoted as saying that “THE ECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS ARE STRONG”….and then LATER you said that “THE ECONOMY IS AT RISK”
What is it Senator McCain????? What is is that you’re really trying to say to us?
I’m over Sarah Palin. Lehman Brothers is bankrupt and AIG needs insurance on itself. This is the “red meat” as all the political pundits like to call it. This is the heart of the matter — the economy. How are we going to feed our children? Send them to school? Take care of our parents? These are the important questions we want answered.
In response, we’re getting Rove-an ads that portend disaster and spread fear about the future rather instilling confidence in the potential leaders. We’re getting mixed messages about what you think about the economy.
We don’t know you anymore Senator McCain because you don’t know yourself anymore. You have lost yourself in the maelstrom of the Republican party machine. You have thrown in with the den of lions and they’ve ground your spirit up and spit it out on an All-American all-white bun. It looks like something good, but it’s tasteless and indistinguishable. No amount of lettuce, mayo, or ruby red-lipsticked “tomato” is going to change the fact that the meat of your message is ground up and re-hashed.
