Hockey Mom No More

I love this one. This is going to dominate for at least 2 news cycles. First $150 mil for Obama. Then Colin Powell. Now this. Bye bye coverage, Johnny!

Or, as Andrew Sullivan says, “$5 grand for hair styling and make-up? As Americans face a depression?”

The Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.

Sarah Palin wears black during a rally in Reno, Nev., on Tuesday.

While we’re having a laugh

Seen at the RNC: Abe

How’s that spelled again?

 

 

“Mavrick” & “Keeping Amerirca Strong”

Seen at the RNC: Elephant Woman

Mother Moosehunter Maverick

Watching the Republican National Convention makes me sad. The convention seems to be built on anger and they are desperately pulling out all the disingenuous, fallacious Karl Rove attack politics.

Do they really believe that we are a nation of cowards cowering in our basements waiting for them to save us. These people are military jocksniffers. They are cynically using the troops to evoke a twisted sense of blind patriotism. If John McCain wins the election, we will find ourselves in a perpetual state of war.

I think it is worth pointing out that war is a political failure. Incompetent leaders find themselves in wars because they don’t have the skill to identify and deal with problems. They are leaders who don’t seek knowledge or understanding, but look for absolutes. We are looking at a toxic and disturbing meme.

As the video retrospective of Sarah Palin concluded,

“The World Shook the World Trembled”

But then I have to remember that they can barely fill up a small stadium, and this is really a fringe bunch who are clinging to a dying ideal. This is the last belch of a dying angry past.