Today’s Rant: Losing To Win

The fact that the McCain campaign has no relevant points, ideas, or policies to the modern era is sadly apparent. McCain must know this, if he has any scrap of the integrity he claims to have. So his “country first” slogan is ringing quite hollow at this point.

If his country was really first, would John McCain continue the reverse Robin Hood policies that have caused the greatest income inequality in almost a hundred years? Would he continue to put our brave soldiers at needless risk, galvanizing a new generation of terrorists, and costing our treasury billions of dollars a month? Would he ignore financial crises, the impending energy crisis, and America’s dependence on foreign oil.

Well, no. If “country first” was anything other than an empty catch phrase. Which it is. McCain is a morally bankrupt, demented old man who has no business running the country in the era of global interdependency. Were he to keel over dead, he would be replaced by someone with an even more myopic and fundamentally Christian worldview than W. This McCain/Palin duo is among the most dangerous group of people we could possibly elect to run the country.

The only thing they have left is attacking Obama relentlessly, playing up an essentially non-existent connection between him and a reformed radical. I take extreme exception to this “we must have the Presidency at any cost” attitude, where if you have no business running the country it’s still okay to sleaze your way into the Oval Office. My disgust with their campaign is total. These people are treasonous hacks. Who cares if we run the economy into the ground? Who cares if we bring this country to its knees? We can give our pals government jobs and deregulate like hell, and then take a nice golden parachute off to an island somewhere.

These people are about as patriotic to the US as any terrorist organization you care to name. They only care about how they can game the system, and that includes politics. These people have no morals. None.
It makes me physically ill to even consider that they could win.

Luckily, that is looking less and less likely, because people aren’t buying these scumbag tactics anymore. After the swiftboating of Kerry and monstrous mismanagement by W, people have learned to ignore attacks with no basis in reality, like all of them. Even as McCain launches his abhorrent campaign to make Obama look like some sort of terrorist, he continues to pull ahead in swing states and is even making inroads in places like North Carolina. Because Obama is actually attempting to address issues, and not “turn the page” on them. After all of McCain’s grandstanding and trying to take credit for brokering a bill, and the bill failing, and then taking credit again once it passed, and nothing happening, McCain has about as much credibility on the economy as a six year-old child. Probably less. And after seeing what a blatant political opportunist he is, most people want to find a candidate that can make them believe in politics again. Out with the old guard, goddamnit!

Oh, and fuck you, McCain. Fuck you.