Op/Ed: RNC Day 3: Dividers not Uniters

[Mugsy]

Via "Mugsy's Rap Sheet":

If you had to describe Day Three of the RNC Convention in just one word, it would be “Partisan”. A three-hour torrent of attacks upon Democrats. One thing was clear, Republicans don’t want to work with Democrats, they want to dictate to them. So what if the next President will have a Democratically controlled Congress to deal with. After burning every bridge imaginable, they want you to elect a Republican President to undo all the damage of the LAST Republican President.

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In addition, speaker after speaker promised McCain will “lower taxes”. Translation: Taxes… RIGHT NOW… are “too high” under Bush. Really? Have they told Bush this? Because I seem to remember a Republican President with Republican Congress for the first six years. Democrats haven’t “raised” taxes, so why then are taxes “too high“?

And, like every other Republican convention I’ve seen in the past 28 years, tonight’s convention was no different in one important regard: more minorities on stage than in the audience. But different from 2004 in one highly noticeable regard: THIS year, being a decorated veteran of Vietnam was something honorable, and qualified you to be President of the United States, while having no combat experience means you have no business being Commander-in-Chief. The 2004 Convention must have landed on “Opposite Day”. Someone should introduce the Republican Party of 2008 to the Republican Party of 2004 to see if they’d get along, being so polar opposite, yet both calling themselves Republicans, I’d love to hear the two groups debate each other. On second thought, maybe not. I hear that’s how black holes are formed.

So while Republican after Republican pushed the “bi-partisan, shmi-partisan” meme, PBS guest commentator Dick Armey made the “divided government” argument to encourage listeners to vote for McCain, because he will face a Democratically controlled Congress, “and government works better when the White House and Congress don’t belong to the same Party.” Can’t imagine for the life of me where Armey came up with the crazy notion that having a President and Congress of the same Party results in disaster, because that’s certainly not what they thought eight years ago… Hell, what am I talking about? That’s not what they thought TWO years ago!

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1. Setting back the Women's Lib movement.

It's funny that Republicans think picking Palin "advances the Womens Movement", because, if anything, picking someone so clearly unqualified, where she talks about being "a Hockey Mom" and "Member of the PTA" as qualifications to be Vice President of the United States of America, clearly shows that, among Republicans, THIS is their idea of what a qualified WOMAN looks like.