I've got the lipstick, where's the pig?

Reaching new levels of the absurd the Mc Cain camp is claiming Barack Obama’s use of the term “lipstick on a pig” was a veiled reference to Sarah Palin. He was actually describing Mc Cain’s same as the old boss policies. It’s an accurate description. As Mc Cain goes around the nation claiming he’s going to change something, his record and his policy positions mirror Bush’s.

What gets my goat is the Republican Party is once again relying on smearing their opponent to win an election. Their base being so gullible, it’s a strategy that works. Did I offend?

I don’t care. They offend me by repeatedly falling for the same garbage each election cycle.

This is the Republican Party’s priorities. Smear the other guy with trivial garbage so people forget even they’ve royally screwed the pooch on every major issue.

The Economy. Sarah Palin thinks Frannie May and Freddie Mac are examples of government programs that don’t work. The simpleton doesn’t know they were private companies before being bailed out with our tax dollars. Silly Republicans, welfare is for people! They don’t get it, haven’t for a while. Mc Cain’s economic advisor Phil Graham still insists we’re all whiners with a mental recession. I haven’t lost my house yet, but to me, those are fighting words. Graham as Senator was instrumental in deregulating the banking industry so he and his wife could reap profits at the tax payers expense. And now we see the fruits of the Republican’s labor. Another failed private enterprise that has screwed the tax payer coming and going. These disgusting pigs, yes pigs, put capitalism above the Constitution. Corporations before tax payers. WE have this massive debt, the weakening dollar, weakening labor rights and corporate monopolies that stifle competition. This economy is the Republican wet dream and it’s an absolute failure. What’s Mc Cain going to change? A few billion, which is nothing to our budget, maybe saved in pork barrel spending? Sorry Senator, I’m not that stupid to believe you’ll keep your promises considering your campaign is half full of lobbysits with the other half Bush campaign advisors.

Our domestic security. The Republican free market dream has lead to the selling of the nation’s roadways to foreign entities. Our ports, the same. Our airlines are outsourcing their maintenance to foreign countries. Mexican truckers are free to steal jobs away from American truckers, putting their unregulated unsafe vehicles on the road. I have to wonder when the next outbreak of tainted food or lead painted toys, or poison in our dog food will come. All a result of deregulation of industry. Do you feel safer today than 7 years ago? I don’t.

Our national security. Read the 9/11 report and you will find that George Bush dropped the ball his first 8 months in office. His inept leadership allowed the 9-11 attacks to happen unimpeded despite receiving over 50 high level warnings that we were about to be a attacked. Not only did the Republican administration leave us vulnerable, they exploited these attacks to pass overly restrictive legislation that allowed the federal government to spy on its citizens like few times before. Like the Civil War and World War 2. They also exploited the tragedy to lie us into a war in Iraq that has turned out to be more costly in dollars and human life than was sold to the citizenry. Our own intelligence estimates indicate the Republican foreign policy has had an opposite effect. Mc Cain can’t remember that we already won the war and have been occupiers for several years now. The same guy who donned a flak jacket with a huge military escort including Apache attack helicopters and wondered around a Baghdad market proclaiming it a safe place to be. Clueless and dangerous.

Yet the Republicans are selling us the same bill of goods. We’re supposed to forget that it’s been Republicans and weak willed capitulating Democrats, that have created this mess. We’re supposed to believe still, that only the Republican Party, the war profiteering party, the party of the shareholders, is the only group that can keep us safe. Sadly their base is stupid enough to believe the lies, again.

So it does not surprise me in the least that Mc Cain and his merry band of Bush campaign aids that slandered him 3 and 7 years ago, have nothing better to do than claim Obama’s use of the term “lipstick on a pig” was a reference to Sarah Palin, the self professed “pitbull in lipstick.” It’s all they have. I’m not shocked at all that the Republican Party continue to lie and smear opponents. It’s the only way they can win. Obama probably wasn’t making reference to Palin. Too bad, the phrase fits her to a tee. She’s no reformer or anti-tax crusader. She didn’t oppose getting millions in pork for a bridge. She isn’t against the old boy network she talks about. If she were to be more accurate, she’d bend over and grab both cheeks with her hands and move them like a mouth. Put lipstick on that pig.

Addendum, I’ll address the complaints before they come. Yes I actually loathe, hate, detest, whatever adjective you wish to use, the current state of the Republican Party and what they are doing to our country. If I sound hateful, you are right. I don’t like being hateful, it’s a waste of my time. But I’d rather be hateful, pi$$ed off or otherwise angry than remain an aloof tool of a political party that doesn’t give a rat’s behind for me. Sure the Democrats have problems, big ones. But they didn’t create this mess we’re in today. They may have enabled it by not reading the Patriot Act before voting for it or holding the Bush administration accountable, but they didn’t make it. The Republican Party’s love affair with lobbyists, corporate power and disdain for working people did. That’s why I am so critical of the Republican Party. My father’s party. A party he feels left him in many ways. A union worker. Salt of the earth guy. Someone I respect so much it makes me even angrier that the GOP has turned into such a despicable and frankly un-American group.