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Republican Convention - No Policy, No Ideals, Just A Hero’s Pep-Rally
September 4th, 2008
I’ve watched speech after speech at the RNC: Thompson, Romney, Huckabee, Giuliani, Palin and its the same speech over and over again. Here how it goes:
John McCain is a hero, he suffered greatly in Vietnam, he sacrificed for America, he took a beating, and it is admirable. Well fellas, point conceeded! Nobody denies this. Everyone respects it, and thinks he did a wonderful job in keeping faith as a solider. But we are not voting for a hero, we’re voting for a president. Apparently the Republicans can make no presidential arguments in favor of McCain - maybe because there are none to make.
“This is no time for on-the-job training” says Rudy Giuliani, just minutes after Sarah Palin’s sister said on CNN that Palin was “quick” at “coming up to speed”. Coming up to speed? You mean she’d be good at on-the-job training if John McCain got elected and she were second in line to be president to a man that’s 72 and has cancer? We simply cannot afford to be thrust into waiting out Sarah Palin’s on-the-job training if she is thrust into the storm with her zero national or international experience. The Republican double talk never stops.
Giuliani said Palin has been “one of the most active Governors”; what, all 19 months! Is he serious?
Giuliani then said “No one can look at John McCain and say he’s not ready to be commander and chief”. You want to bet on that Rudy!
Let me take a shot:
1. He doesn’t know the players in Iraq, he needs Joe Lieberman to hold his hand and tell him basic facts about who’s who.
2. He admitted that he knows little about the economy and economics (which his votes and policies bare out), and that he needed to read Alan Greenspan’s book over the summer to catch up (on-the-job) training. How could he vote on fiscal policy for 26 years and still know nothing about the economy? If he couldn’t learn after 3 decades in Washington and 72 years on earth; there’s no way he’s going to figure it out between now and January.
3. John McCain shows no heft of grasp of anything under the sun. Name one thing where John McCain can speak fluently and in depth about the subject. Foreign policy is supposedly is strong point, but that’s merely based on the fact that he was captured in Vietnam; which means he knows what’ it’s like to be in the military and he knows what it’s like to be in a POW camp; It doesn’t mean he knows high executive command level military strategy, nor that he has a grasp of geo-politics nor that he has the intellectual capability to apply advice from advisors (as he proudly jokes that he did finish 5th from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy when he was being taught that stuff)
4. Which brings us to number 4, he’s proud to be an idiot and does not much value education.
5. He’s demonstrated that he only has the experience of poor judgment: a few quick examples, which I will not go into here he claimed that the Iraq war was going great in 2005 (before he flipped flopped and decided Rumsfeild wasn’t doing a good job once the political winds started going so strongly against his position), he was wrong on talking to Iran, going into the border region of Pakistan (which the U.S. did today) and finishing the fight in Afghanistan (which he said was basically over a year ago).
Giuliani says “change is not a destination, just like hope is not a strategy”. Then spends most of the rest of his speech running behind Barack Obama and his message trying to convince everyone how McCain is a change agent. If change is not what it’s about, why are you and McCain just reacting to Obama, and trying to co-opt his message; instead of having one of your own? Why did everbody become a change agent as soon as Barack won Iowa? If you following his message, clearly even you believe his message is better than yours.
The RNC Convention was a nice pep-rally; but there was no policy, no ideals nothing about health care, no specifics on making the economy better for everyday people, nothing about lowering college tution or helping regular families to pay for it, nada on how to bring about renewable energy and end our dependence on oil; just generalities, slogans, self-congratulation and a lot of loud cheering about nothing. Just juvenile pot shots at Obama, and smugness about how they’re better people than the rest of us.
With all those mostly old white men cheering, I still don’t know what John McCain and Republicans will do for me if elected. Palin proffered not one policy; just 38 minutes of self-promotion and self-back patting.
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Yobachi, this race is becoming, anybody but Barack, it also shows the different rules for us and them. How dare us think Palins is putting her selfish needs before her family.The republicans are relieved sarah can put a sentence together they are giddy, how about McCaine using a blist celeb, Fred Thompson to tell of his readiness.
My thing is I feel like I’m missing something. I’m hoping that because I am a Barack supporter that I’m missing something.
It just seems too simple to look at what I think I’m seeing and really believe that the Repubs are this dumb, ignorant, and ARROGANT.
I plan to reach out to my conservative friends and hopefully get a real, straight answer out of how they feel. I’ve seen some interesting comments on ‘Blacks for McCain’ type blogs….but nothing real meaty yet.
I have an idea though…and would like to see if you’re interested. Hit me up on email, ybpguide [at] gmail
preaching to the choir on this one…lol. I couldn’t agree with you more. I am a Democrat to the core but I was really looking forward to Sarah making her case last night. You know…just to even the playing filed so to speak. She said NOTHING…but she did deliver well. Like a pizza delivery guy that comes on time but forgot the pizza.
JD, the double standards are amazing but not surprising and not new.
Obama’s communication direct noted on Morning Joe after listening to Sarah Palin’s spokes women speak about Palin last night, how nice it is that now republicans think speeches matter, and it’s now about your judgment and not experience.
Fredric, I wonder if you haven’t been paying the Republicans much attention over the years; they’re ALWAYS this arrogant. That’s part of my thing, it’s the same ol political smugness they always come with.
The same canned attacks they use every 4 years even where they don’t apply to Obama. You could take the convention from 4 years ago and just replay it on t.v. instead of having a new one; they’re saying the exact same things almost word for word.
I’m not a Democrat to the core, and both her speech last night, and the same ol drivel coming out of McCain’s mouth right now does nothing for me.
“Like a pizza delivery guy that comes on time but forgot the pizza” is right. There’s no policy or forward-moving ideals meat on the bones of these “I’m great”, rhetorically rehashed, retrograde speeches.
I swear, you could simply copy and paste from the last convention.
What I think it comes down to is that it doesn’t matter what your experience or background is about. It only matters if you can get certain demographics to vote against the other guy. The republicans had nothing to go on. How can you convince people to vote for a party that has fucked this country up for the last eight years ? Start by getting Karl Rove on Fox explaining what republicans need to do in order to take charge of the government and use lies to back him on it.
Yeah, the same way they pushed a false were; and just like then, the media does not correct the record or fact check claims.