As I write this, the Republican National telethon Convention has officially started. Following Obama and the Democrats, the Republicans began their convention Monday–albeit hindered “because of hurricane Gustav.” But convention coverage has barely broken the exhilarating stranglehold of natural disaster in the mainstream media. Those silly bastards just can’t shut up about the hurricane(s), something that affects only a small portion of the national population. And while it might seem like some small tragedy–and somehow unfair–that the Repubs won’t get as much coverage as the Democrats, don’t be fooled.
This is the best bit of stratagem by the Republicans since Newt Gingrich and the spooge-stained dress. While the 24-hour news channels focuse on the impending doom of Hurricane Gustav and incoming Hanna, McCain and “friends” have taken the opportunity to release some of the most damning information about the Palin pick, saving them countless voters-worth of embarrassment. Here are all the reasons Gustav, Hanna and the rest of the storms are good for the Republicans this week, very good…
First came the announcement that neither George Bush nor Dick Cheney would be attending the Republican National Convention because of their duties to oversee the rescue/emergency response effort along the Gulf Coast. And while that is a perfectly valid reason not to go to the convention, it provides a very convenient way for John McCain to avoid praising them in public or having them speak at the convention, which would only fuel charges by Obama that McCain/Palin is just Bush/Cheney 3.
Not only can they now avoid greater ties between Bush and McCain, but the Republicans have shifted the entire focus of their convention to a compassionate call for help for Gustav’s victims. This allows the Republicans to avoid talking about all the drastic failures of the past eight years and make it seem as though they are leading in this time of crisis without doing much of anything.
Then came the outpouring of dirt on GOP VP pick, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Saturday, the DailyKos began speculating that Trig, Sarah Palin’s fifth son who has Downs Syndrome, is actually her 17-year-old daughter Bristol’s baby. That, at least for the time being, seems to be a fabrication (though the evidence was somewhat compelling.) And while it may not be true (DailyKos deleted the stories), it was at least true enough to force “Family Values” Palin to release a statement Monday telling the world that Bristol is actually five-months pregnant, still in high school and unmarried. This announcement, however, was overshadowed by all the wind and rain.
The next bit of damning news that came later Monday with the announcement that Sarah Palin has “hired a lawyer” to deal with the developing “Trooper-gate” scandal. Basically, the investigation by the Alaska legislature as to whether or not Palin abused her power in the firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan in July 2008 might be more serious than the off-handed dismissals previously thrown about.
But it doesn’t stop there. A flood of reports surfaced, saying that Palin ran disgraced Alaska Senator Ted Stevens’s 527 group, “Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc.” She thinks the Founding Fathers said the Pledge of Allegiance (it was written in 1892, more than 100-years after the writing of the Declaration of Independence.) She supported a fringe group, the Alaskan Independence Party, which says the vote of statehood for Alaska was invalid, and supports Alaska’s secession from the United States. She flip-flopped on her “Bridge to Nowhere” support, saying “Thanks, but no thanks” in her acceptance speech after supporting the project and its federal earmarks before being picked for VP. Oh, and she’s a Creationist.
Despite the obvious benefits of the national media focusing more heavily on Gustav and the next storms to come than the endless flow of bad news about the Palin pick, the blogosphere is already awash in speculation that McCain will drop her as VP, something that hasn’t happened since George McGovern removed Thomas Eagleton from the ticket in 1972. (This basically ended McGovern’s chances of beating an incumbent Nixon, and he lost by huge margins.)
So once the clouds have cleared and the rain has stopped, don’t be surprised to find out McCain’s VP pick isn’t exactly the beauty of a choice the Repubs are selling her as. And remember, this is just the beginning.
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Andrew
How about some facts about Obama’s Mother
Born Nov 29, 1942
Married Feb 2, 1961
First Child Born Aug 4, 1961
Keep your Liberal one sided trash
How about them Facts
Need help calculating
Pregnat at 17 unmarried!!!!!!
Lisa,
You are obviously a retard that cannot read a calendar, or do simple math. I’m sorry, that’s an insult to mentally challenged people. You are an idiot, plain and simple.
Joe
God help us all
nov 29th day 1 248 days later birth
human gestation period 280 days
that means she was pregnant at 17
You have to be kidding me!!!!!
Lisa, I believe he was referring to your flawed math skills on Obama’s mother’s age at the time she became pregnant and when she became a mother… Here’s a hint, she was young, but not a minor. A teenager but at an age where she was most likely out of school.
Also, Obama makes no bones about that, never tried to hide it, and even if he had – circumstances of a candidates birth have nothing to do with what they can do as an adult. Where as circumstances surrounding a candidates children can show something to do with the candidates ability to represent a certain side. Republicans don’t like abortion or sex ed, right? Well, Palin’s pregnant daughter may be an example of how not teaching sex ed results in not abstinence, but risky sexual situations, and pregnancy.
Laura,
The facts are that Barack Obama was concieved when Stanley Ann Dunham was 17 and unmarried She married Barack Obama Sr. when she was 3 months pregnant. As for Ann’s education she went on for a BA, MA, And Ph. D. This shows here ablity to raise a child and continue advancing herself all of which Bristol may still accomplish. I am tring to give you all facts before you make wrong decisions and uneducated responses. Once again you need to do your research before speaking.
I vote for who I believe is best for America and who I believe is the best candidate. As a women I am pro choice and that effects my thoughts on candidates but I am not a one issue voter, McCain has much more substance and ablity to lead this great country then Barick Obama.
Lisa,
You can’t do math. By your dates she would be 19. It’s called subtraction, it’s sort of a bipartisan thing people do sometimes.
Of course, it isn’t very surprising to see a Republican not know anything about subtraction seeing as the past 8 years have left millions unemployed, a housing market in shambles, 500 troops unnecessarily killed in Iraq, and a pride that has been significantly broken apart in the international community due to a president that can barely speak and probably shares the same math skills of Miss Lisa.
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Lisa you are so smart.
Who gives a shit about stuff like this.
I think the article makes a good point about Mccain smartly using the Hurricanes as a fullback for releasing this info.
Basically, I thought the hurricane might have been a bad thing because it would remind us of Bush’s failures and take focus off the stage-managed, scripted convention. Obama didn’t get a post-convention bump as far as I know and without the perfectly managed stage show because despite their condescension Republicans are great “organizers” of Reifenstahl-esque events. I would like to thank Lisa of reminding us of exactly what Obama has been saying the whole time and what McCain and Palin desperately tried to hide. Anyone notice how the Palin daughter’s impregnater was quickly flown in for the photo opp to pretend that everything is happy. Pretty cool. Who knew that knocking a girl up could you earn a guy a free trip from the icy 9th level of hell that is Alaska plus a new suit to wear?
As for McCain being a character of substance…. ha. That is the funniest thing I have heard. This man is so utterly desperate for the validation needed by being elected president that he has even denounced the provisions of the McCain-Feingold law. Yeah. A man who first wanted to be president in 1988 to prove something to his daddy the Admiral, since McCain never quite made it that high (finishing in the bottom of your Naval Academy class often leads to this) has actually flip-flopped on his support for the law that is actually named after him. The man lost all semblance of “substance” when he cozied up to the man, Bush, who slandered his good name in the South Carolina primary in 2000, and decided that fighting tooth and nail for the very same Bush tax cuts he voted against and denounced as “dangerously irresponsible” was a good campaign strategy. Oh wait I forgot McCain doesn’t strategize. Sarah Palin was best the qualified and the current state of our economy proves that those Bush tax cuts were great for it so this is really what is “best for America.” It is funny that a man who has run for president in nearly every election cycle since 1988 is pretending that he serves the nation first and not his own desperate need for validation. Too bad people still pretend he is a not just like the rest of those clowns. He hasn’t been a maverick for at least 6 years, and that is being generous.
As for Obama, I am no huge fan, but at least you can say he was chosen by the people. This is his first go at it and it is basically because people put the idea in his head to be president at the 2004 convention. He isn’t desperate to exercise the demons of his inability to avoid AA flak in a jet he shouldn’t have been allowed to fly because of his low Naval Academy standing. It really is about being a POW. McCain got messed up there like so many other vets, and now we want a mentally damaged and deranged man to be our president. If it wasn’t for his Admiral daddy and Mommy Warbucks SECOND wife, the one he dumped his first wife for he might be on the streets like so many other veteran homeless he constantly votes against helping. Are you kidding me? He needs some serious therapy not higher office.
I believe that we are splitting hairs here about the two women. I am not sure about Alaska, but some states allow girls as young as 16 to be able to actually be of consentual age to engage in sexual intercourse. No laws broken, even though we think it too early. Both girls were unmarried at the time of conception. Anyway, neither of these women are running for the office of President. Now it does seem unlikely that either McCain or Palin was able to schedule the convention to coincide with the hurricane. Neither of them is embodied with a sage’s ability to predict weather. It is also conceivable that the pending media storm surrounding the daughters pregnancy was about to go public anyway, so they wanted to be the ones making the announcement rather than being accused of trying to hide things. Lets all stay focused on the real issues of the election and stop wasting outr time on this petty garbage.