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Sun Oct-26-08 09:43 PM
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So Now EVERYONE Knows

Edited on Sun Oct-26-08 09:50 PM by NanceGreggs

Those among us who have recognized the hypocrisy of the GOP over the years – a charge which, when made, often fell on deaf ears – have now been fully vindicated, thanks to the McCain campaign, its supporters, its defenders, and its hard-core adherents.

While Republican voters screamed for McCain to take off the gloves, what actually slipped off was the mask that Republican powers-that-be have hidden behind for decades – and the face that was exposed for all the world to see was, to say the least, not a pretty one.

It seems that we have heard the carefully-crafted talking points forever – and while we have staunchly pointed out the discrepancies between what was being said and what was being done, we have been told that we are, at best, nit-pickers … and at worst, delusional.

But now everybody can see the GOP for what it is, and know it for what it’s been all along: a smoke-and-mirrors sideshow meant to distract the public eye away from the truths of any number of matters – and then some.

We all vividly remember having the term fiscal responsibility drummed into our heads by a party who has now been proven to have plundered our treasury to the point of not only monetary but moral bankruptcy. And while the backs of the middle-class workers have now been broken, as we not-so-presciently predicted, we as a nation face the consequences of no one having taken heed of the oh-so-obvious warnings we’ve given voice to for years. And being able to say “I told you so” is no comfort at all.

We all recall having been dubbed anti-American as we decried the occupation of Iraq, and insisted it would inflame rather than calm already troubled waters. And now the truth is out; this is an unwinnable “war” that has cost us lives, untold billions of dollars, and the respect of the world – and the campaign that has desperately tried to sell it as anything more than the disaster it was always destined to become is on the ropes, begging for mercy.

We’ve been told again and again about the superior leadership of the Republicans. But we have now all been treated to what they consider “leadership” – a presidential candidate who doesn’t know the difference between Sunni and Shia, who doesn’t “get” the economy, who believes that tax-cuts for the wealthy will be a widely-accepted “cure” for the current economic crisis, and honestly believes that his own delusions, be they of grandeur or Joe-Six-Packery, will catapult him into the White House.

And of course there is the experience counts meme that has been shoved down our throats until the gag reflex inevitably set in, ultimately triggered by a VP choice who started out by asking what a vice-president does, only to go on to ramble aimlessly (after, one would suppose, being schooled on the topic) about what she perceives as the job description, babbling incoherently about the very things a vice-president doesn’t do, never has done, and never will do according to that shredable piece of paper called The Constitution.

So much for “Country First” from a man, and a party, who apparently believe that potentially putting the nation's wellbeing into the hands of a vacuous, dumb-assed, pseudo-religious whack-job – who is being proffered as the living personification of that famous GOP national security acumen by virtue of living within viewing distance of Russia – is somehow demonstrative of that legendary cool-headed ability to keep our nation safe.

We have been labeled anti-American because we called for an end to the very deregulation that has created economic catastrophe; we have been called anti-troops because we want them home, safe and sound, while a man who has done nothing to support the cause of our soldiers and our veterans trots out his POW status (if and when convenient), while promoting another hundred years of death and destruction in a war whose victory he lauds but still can’t define.

We have been endlessly preached to by the party of good Christian moral values – a group now exposed as torture-supporting, let-the-poor-do-without, bigoted “kill the n*gg*r”-shouting racists that Jesus himself would be hard-pressed to forgive for their multitude of sins – no less the fact that they conjure up His name as a shield to hide behind as they spew their hatred.

And let’s not forget the fact that in the midst of the worst kind of race-baiting we’ve seen out in the open for a long time, there’s the added bonus of a campaign that reiterates, at every opportunity, how proud it is of these kinds of supporters.

Yes, the mask has fallen away – and what some of us suspected, and what many of us knew to be the case – is now an open secret: The Republican party is completely devoid of the very moral fiber they have relied upon for years as their raison d’etre, the foundation upon which they have built what is now exposed as a house of cards – as flimsy as a cardboard box in the rain, and equally as useful as a shelter from the oncoming storm.

It’s over.

The GOP have proven themselves to be the party of hypocrisy, greed, corruption and ignorance – now unmasked and unclothed, for all the world to see at long last.

I thank the McCain campaign for so blatantly and unequivocally exposing the ugly underbelly of their party, and for giving decent Americans a clear choice on Election Day.

Rest in Pieces, GOP. It can’t be said that we hardly knew ye – we knew ye all along; and it’s gratifying to know that the rest of the nation, and the world-at-large, now know you for what you have always been – and won’t have an opportunity to ever be again.

In an election as important as this one, it was obvious that the whole world would be watching - and now, the whole world knows who the Republican Party is, what they really stand for, and what evil lurks behind the holier-than-thou rhetoric that decent people are now distancing themselves from in droves.

As of next Tuesday, the war-mongering, lying hate merchants will be officially out-of-business – and the party that spawned them, nurtured them, and gave them influence and power will be banished to the darkest corners of a national history we will all be thankful to eventually put behind us.

I sometimes wish I was a better person, someone who has the capacity to forgive and forget. But I’m not.

I will never forget – and I’ll gladly burn in hell for all eternity rather than hold out the hand of forgiveness to these fuckers for as long as I live.