After Zell Miller's wild-eyed speech to the RNC (and the nation) last night, I ran to the store and bought a new wardrobe consisting exclusively of brown shirts. I would've opted for white sheets, but it's almost Labor Day, and that would create a fashion faux pas. FWIW, Miller is a DINO (Democrat In Name Only).
Stepping back, I just have to wonder what message the Radical Right is trying to send; after all, Miller didn't get up there on his own (modern conventions are heavily scripted). I suspect Karl ("don't let facts get in the way") Rove's hand was deep in this; Karl is W's chief of staff, and star of the new [Bush's Brain] movie (now playing at the Angelika).
Let's see, under W's watch: 1) he sits dumbfounded for 7 minutes in a classroom full of second-graders when he learns that a jet plowed into the World Trade Center (now that's decisive leadership!); 2) Iran's getting nukes; 3) North and South Korea both get nukes (yes, South Korea announced today that they enriched uranium several years ago); 4) the Taliban regroups in Afghanistan; 5) al-Qaeda openly grows (opium) poppies to fund more terror; 6) we invade Iraq and find (queue sarcasm) thousands of WMDs scattered all over the country. "Four more years", indeed - think of what more he can accomplish!
The message I'm getting from the RNC convention is F-E-A-R : we should all be very, very afraid all the time, and re-elect GWB in November. Sadly, they've evolved into a group that wouldn't know truth-telling if it fell out of the sky, landed on their faces and wiggled. And that's probably a good thing, since the alternative is not to allow them to say anything unless it was fact-checked first, and that would prolong our elections (we couldn't stomach that).
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment