Those [Expletive Deleted] Republicans!

Yes, you heard me right.

I've sat here for four days watching one smarmy Dem after another get up to the microphone and give endless diatribes on how the Evil Republicans caused this mess, and then pat themselves on the back for working tirelessly to fix it.

The occasional House Republican will step up and explain why the bailout is a bad idea, but how is it that NO ONE is explaining the Democrats' culpability in what happened?

I quote, with great enthusiasm, a commenter over at Michelle Malkin's blog:

WHEN ARE THE REPUBLICANS GOING TO START FIGHTING BACK?

Or do they plan to continue on their current course, wherein they give the Dems a never ending press conference that is 1/10th "boy have we killed ourselves on this, we even worked on a SATURDAY NIGHT!" and 9/10ths "and the reason we had to do it is the greed of the Evil Rich People and the lack of regulation by the Evil Bush Administration and oh by the way, this is exactly what you're going to get more of if you vote for John McCain and did we mention that we could have wrapped this up DAYS ago if he hadn't made such an erratic old-fart sideshow out of having to leave his campaign and fly here to show up where he had not been invited and was not welcome, and then he just sat in the room like a lump and didn't say a thing, which proves his intentions were Evil, but luckily The One was in the room and lo he spoke unto us and we did manage to get back on to the right track and then he went back on the campaign trail where he belongs and John McCain stayed in town and made phone calls -- I guess we should be glad he knows how to use a phone -- and, all in all, looked almost as stupid as Sarah Palin on the Katie Couric interview. And let me also mention that not a soul in America would be buying groceries next week if not for Barney Frank.

Is John McCain really going to combat four days of that with "I went in there and cheered up the House Republicans?"

I'm afraid I already know the answer.

I've about resigned myself to the fact that the people who make my skin crawl are going to take over the country and run it, unchecked, for four years. I have yet to see a sign that the Republicans are going to put up a fight. Three days of hope was lovely after the selection of Sarah Palin, but it only took about a week to see that they were just going to have her spend the entire campaign repeating the same speech that everyone in the country had memorized two days after she made it the first time.  (I mean, I know the internet is not the Republicans' strength, but they have heard of YouTube, right?)

Dear Republicans, trust me when I tell you that it makes no sense to make a brilliant and brave move, and then go timid three seconds later. It makes no sense to thrill the country with a fresh voice, and then make sure the fresh voice keeps her ideas to herself and just spouts what you've given her to memorize. You've managed to turn brave and brilliant into timid and dumb in record time. Despite what the Democrats never stop trying to convince the world, we are not stupid. A great speech is great. A great speech for the twenty-fifth time in the same week is really cloying, even to the people who are pulling for you.  Why are you throwing the red meat to the other side?

Did you not notice how good Obama looked in all those interviews where his lap dog reporters asked him to name his favorite Bruce Springsteen song? Why did you take a woman who isn't used to being grilled by the press and, instead of letting her look good being questioned by people who were rooting for her -- fair enough given what the voters would be comparing her to -- and make her sit down with known enemies? Why did you think she'd be calm and collected while being grilled by people who were vibing her death?

Republicans have done a horrible job of making the country understand who Barack Obama really is. The world is an absolute powder keg and a war hero is losing to a man who wants to cut defense spending and have a pizza party with the most dangerous lunatics on the planet.  Obama wouldn't be able to get security clearance to work at a nuclear power plant given his list of associates, yet the country is about to elect him president. No one really knows anything about him, except he makes great speeches and has a nice smile and looks good in a suit. He spent exactly 143 days in the senate before he started running for president. His supporters can't name a single substantive thing he did in those 143 days. And yet he's winning. Mostly because he and his supporters lie constantly about who he is, and the Republicans just barely peep in protest.

To be continued. I just couldn't spend another day of listening to the Dem goon sqaud without getting a good rant out of my system. And other than yelling at the television, I hadn't vented at the Republicans yet.

As always, please tell me where I'm wrong. Especially if you want to convince me that John McCain is going to win.

Comments

[sally calligan]

Good for you! My children will not let me speak about politics on my blog. But I thank you for speaking the truth which no one seems to see. Bless you and I am going to take some lessons from you about writing about politics and freedom about which I am passionate.

[melanie statom]

watched Bill Moyer's Friday interview with, Andrew Bacevich.....what do ya think of this conservative Catholic's views Lassie?

[Tuppence]

You see, the only people worse than our enemies are our friends. Especially Republicans.

Why don't they get out there and defend us, dammit?

Keep praying, we may win this yet. The alternative is too awful to contemplate.

[Erich 'Science Dude' Schwarz]

It's pretty remarkable. I remember how much energy there was for reelecting Bush in 2004. This time around, everybody in the Republican Party just seems ... tired. Tired, and not at all willing or able to rebut the arguments being made against them.

The first McCain-Obama debate was painful to listen to; I could take about an hour of it before I had to turn it off.

Obama's position on energy policy is so ridiculous that even my best and smartest Caltech-graduate Obama-supporter friend can't bring himself to argue for it, really. The most he'll say is that Obama's in favor of "research", which is fine, but he can't really make an argument that Obama's position on nuclear is at all sane. In fact, to get expansion of nuclear power -- the energy policy which Hans Bethe, a Nobel laureate in physics, argued for at Caltech in 1991 -- we would have to elect McCain.

As for Obama's naive, unchallenged claim that he "wanted" to have "Russian peacekeepers" in Georgia replaced by "international peacekeepers" by some unspecified mechanism? Egad.

As for Obama's sneer that the surge was nice "tactics" but that he, Obama, was better than McCain on "strategy"? Cool way to gloss over the fact that the surge worked well enough to reverse what had looked like an unsalvageable nightmare in 2006, that McCain supported the surge while Obama supported a Saigon-in-1975 bug-out, and that if Obama'd had his way in 2006, we'd now be looking at an utterly failed situation in Iraq rather than a hopeful one. Also, a cool way to escape any accountability for whether Biden's or Hillary Clinton's support for war in 2002 was any more erroneous than McCain's -- or whether Obama, had he been in the U.S. Senate then, would have been at all likely to vote differently than his own V.P. candidate.

And never mind Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, and their contribution to the current near-meltdown of the entire U.S. financial system. The solution to bad regulations, clearly, is to have even more regulations, promulgated by the same kleptocrats who siphoned Fannie and Freddie salaries and "contributions" into their pockets for the last 16 years in the first place. Among which beneficiaries, Barack Obama was not the least.

But given the current polls, it looks as if we're going to get to experience a lot more of this nonsense. A McCain victory, at this point, is looking about as likely as a Merovingian restoration. So it goes.

[Joe]

I know "this, too, shall pass" but so will a kidney stone.

-J.

[Gary]

Democrats = evil party
Republicans = stoopid party

No more needs be said.

Be aware that I claim no worldly or heavenly capacity to judge others. This is merely a recommendation.

It is people who act like you, Karen, who make Catholics, Christians, conservatives, and Americans look unintelligent. It appears as if anyone who agrees with you can't offer anything useful.

Based on this blog, to represent yourself as a person who should be taken seriously is a farce. Unless you can respect and compromise with people you disagree with, you will only tender respect from those who agree with you completely.

I feel that you are a kind and passionate woman. Let your writing reflect this.

Take my commentary for whatever it's worth to you. All I want truth, fairness, intelligence, and logic.

-Sebastian