More McCainery!!!

The latest? How about sending a republican operative to ask Sen. Obama a question and then bringing that same operative up in a nationally televised debate so that he can go on the air the next day and expound on his ridiculous political views for free?

Do you call that brilliant or do you call it sinister? I like what one guy on Olberman said, "McCain and the Republicans are more concerned with a caricature of what they believe middle class America looks like than what middle-class America really is." That's really it, isn't it? They don't know what true middle class America really looks like.

I think I have to change my view of right wing folk now. I used to just call them stupid, but that's not fair. They have a huge number of closed minded people in their ranks, but the people leading that party are not stupid. They are, in fact, brilliant at what they do. Sinister, but brilliant.

The word "sinister" has lost a bit of it's proper meaning ever since cartoons of Boris Badinoff and other villains used it to describe their antics. What I mean is more the classic definition: "Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonourable." I think we banished the concept of wickedness with the water Dorothy poured on the Witch of the West. And we celebrate it by linking it to behaviors which should better be termed "taboo." But what I believe I experience in watching the machinations and Mccainery of John McCain and the RNC/GOP and their leader George Bush Jr. is pure wickedness.

There is an intention of deception. It's not about evading questions or raising honest doubt about serious issues and flaws. Instead it is about intentionally deceiving and lying while trying earnestly to appear to be telling the truth. It is about using the naivety and sheepishness of the religious right to control them and manipulate them against not only the core beliefs and teachings of their God, but against their own best interest as well. It is truly about inciting murderous emotion by spreading lies and pretending it wasn't their intention in the first place.

Wickedness. Truly evil characteristics rooted in utter greed that feeds on the blood of conquered peoples of all types. They rejoice in their greed and pretend their policies don't hurt people.

The first time I heard it was with Ronald Regan when I was a teen. He declared that ketchup was a vegetable that was supplied to poor children as part of school lunch programs. I can understand to some small degree a person hating a poor man who must rely on the government for a handout. It's easy to consider such people lazy or derelect--especially when your days are full of hard work for whatever gains you enjoy. But to do so to children? What other word could be used to describe such people? What exactly are the children to do?

How Republicans managed to get poor white rednecks to vote for them is a demonstration of evil genius at its best. Republicans are the very last people who would ever lift a finger to help out Joe the Plumber. So it makes sense they would pretend they are his party. But what amazes me is that although that guy only makes $40K a year, he's still more afraid of a tax raise once he's making $250K than he is of all the stuff John McCain will do to him to keep him from ever being in that class.