therelevantrhino

John McCain can’t win this week. No matter what he does, if Hurricane Gustav blows through the Gulf, the coverage of the RNC in Minneapolis will be limited to FOX News, EIB Radio, and the Nazis at the Weekly Standard. He could tap American Jesus (you know, white, sandy blond-haired, blue-eyed Jesus, not the one that existed) as VP, but if the flood waters roll, it’ll get lost in the mix.

Last night was epic, both in terms of scale and audacity. The fact that nearly 80,000 Americans on both sides of the aisle, as well as independents (like yours truly) crammed into Invesco for the first big victory that place has seen since Elway cannot be ignored. I’m sure some of my friends on the right will point out that there will be some Dems at the RNC next week, but Joe Lieberman doesn’t count. If that guy’s a democrat, I’m a 14 year old Chinese gymnast. The Dems pulled off everything they set out to accomplish, and now they have to face a whole new line of crap from the Republicans.

“When you’ve run out of fresh ideas, you revert to the same stale tactics”. I’ve followed this thing as closely as anyone, and definitely more closely than most Republicans, who tend to get their news from one sided sources and reporters that have no business calling themselves journalists in the first place. The McCain camp has resorted to the same tactics that got President Apocalypse elected, and we can only expect more of the same. Obama was dared, literally dared to go overseas by the right, and when he did, they cried photo-op. He’s a spineless liberal, they crowed, and when he came out swinging last night, they lashed out at him for being a Chicago-style politician (which as I understand it, means he comes served with diced tomatoes on top). They cry celebrity as if the GOP never elected one. Ahem, Ronald effin’ Reagan…Arnold Schwartzenegger, Sonny Bono, Clint Eastwood, Fred Thompson…any of this sound familiar?

What bothers me most about the GOP these days is that they’ve gone so far off base with what the party stood for. Under Bush, the size of government has ballooned. Our surplus was blown in the first three years, and now we swim in debt. Our Olympic Gold Medalists are being encouraged to melt down their medals to sell back to China so we can get some of our money back. And McCain can only offer the same failed policies that got us into this mess. I’ve checked out his website (which is something the man himself doesn’t even know how to do), I’ve heard the speeches that aren’t in swing states, and I’ve listened to the statements made by his advisers. This guy, who is supposedly a maverick, is sticking to the party line like John Edwards on a videographer.

Truth is, John McCain was a hack pilot who got into officer’s school by nepotism and nearly flunked out, crashed five planes before getting shot down yet again in Vietnam, was unfortunate enough to get caught, paid a severe price for his piss poor skills in an aircraft that he had no business flying in the first place, and wants us to believe that because he was an abject failure as a pilot, that he’ll be a good leader. I have lots of friends in the military currently, as well as those who have previously served, and they all say the same thing: Bad CO’s get you killed. Does that delineate their service? No, they stepped up and put on the uniform, but does it qualify you to hold the highest office in America? No. I welcome any debate on this.

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