Hypocrisy, thy name is conservatism. After decades of conservative spin control, it is still shocking to be confronted with the unconscionable double standard of the right-wing media. Conservatives will do anything, say anything to hold on to power. Now, as the pillars of their hegemony are beginning to crumble, Americans are being presented with a powerful alternative.
Remember this: there is a generational change afoot in America that McCain/Palin is attempting and failing to subvert. America is hungry for change, and the Bush Republican ticket's false claims of Reform are no substitute.
The real change America seeks is the reintegration of ethical aspiration back into public discourse. Stand for what you believe in. Set your course and take responsibility for the results. That's the American principle that these deadbeat conservatives have shirked for decades.
When will Sarah Palin make herself available to the press? When will she be held accountable for lying about her opposition to the "bridge to nowhere"? Who will confront her about the hypocrisy of her massive earmark success and claims as a reformer? Where is the outrage and disgust at the massive Bush-style debt with which she saddled her tiny town?
Who will she blame for the lies and hypocrisy? Probably you, since you are their ultimate victim, and blaming the victim is page 1 of the conservative playbook.
UPDATE: We have our answer. It's astonishing, but Palin will not face the media during this campaign. Republicans have betrayed every trust, yet they want America to set a perfect cipher, an absolute unknown, a heartbeat away from the Presidency. John McCain's desperate, pathetic, insulting campaign continues.
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This time around, they're just going to muzzle the pit bull early, and avoid any unpleasant gaffes. They'll just walk her out occasionally to get a Praise the Lord, or Halleluiah, and then take her back to the hotel room.
Look for them to put her on Fox and other reliable conservative venues, at a minimum.
The problem, even there, is that there are some Fox reporters, like Chris Wallace, who even though they are GOP tools, will not be willing to sacrifice their careers or all their credibility on behalf of Palin, and go along with the program.
This points up another one of Palin's little problems. She's never been on any news show outside of Alaska, and has no real background in off the cuff responses to reporters' questions. In a lot of ways she's been in a little bubble up there in Alaska.
1.Anchorage 278,700
2.Fairbanks 31,142
3.Juneau 30,737
4.Sitka 8920
5.Wasilla 9236
I wonder what all the service members at Fort Wainwright, Eielson Air Force Base, Fort Greely and Clear Air Force Station think about Rove. Those bases are all in or around Fairbanks. How could he not know that city is the second largest?
Juneau is the capital - so Palin spends much of her time in that little city. But it must be "big city" to her at over three times the size of Wasilla.
Karl Rove is a moron.
We can't solve the problems we're facing by staying in denial. I don't want to pay more taxes, believe me. But none of the positive things that the presidential candidates have promised are going to come to pass without (1) ending the financial hemorrhaging that is the Iraq occupation and (2) generating more federal revenue to service the war debt and pay for all these new initiatives. The latter is going to take painful spending cuts and painful tax increases.
Otherwise, you can't get there from here.