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THE SMARMY WORLD OF DEMOCRATIC POLITICS
As Gustav calms down and Hanna takes aim, as kids head off to school and their parents return the aspirin bottle to the medicine cabinet, the campaigns for the highest office in the land will be heating up.
The “experts” tell us that people don’t pay attention to politics until after Labor Day, as if we’re all dolts oblivious of a presidential race until September. I don’t buy that, especially in this momentous year when we are faced with four candidates, McCain, Palin, Obama, and Biden, who are diametrically opposed on so many social and foreign policy issues.
The mud has begun to fly, chiefly from the Mud Masters on the Left whose assignments are to take the low road and hit McCain and Palin with every lie, every distortion, every nasty innuendo their disturbed minds can dredge up as Obama and Biden cruise along the high road.
The trouble is that the previous paragraph itself is somewhat of a distortion since Biden and Obama wouldn’t know a high road if it rose up and smacked them in the face, yet they’ll pretend to be on it. Also, if any voter believes the marching orders for the Left are products of the minds of the foot soldiers, the columnists, the bloggers, and the mass media itself, they don’t know politics and the Democratic Party.
Grunts don’t establish policy, they follow and execute it.
Oh, some bloggers and columnists and talk show hosts such as Larry King and Chris Matthews will fabricate reports and stories. We may hear that McCain really owns 87 homes, smashes cans of Budweiser on Cindy’s head,...
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