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So, the GOP has been running hard on the "words don't matter" line for awhile (along with "experience matters") in their attacks on Obama. Now Palin swaggers into the spotlight and suddenly words matter and experience doesn't, and this VP candidate is supposed to help a longtime Washington insider bring change to the Beltway? Curiouser and curiouser.
Smells like desperation on the part of the reactionary movement to find anything they can pin their hopes on, and Mammon help the GOP to hitch their star on McCain/Palin. And what are the stakes, precisely? These candidates are held entirely captive to their brimstone base's fevered paranoiac political fantasies, and have simply nowhere to go by way of having an actual platform.
I mean seriously, how is continuation of Bush/Cheney change precisely? What, by making their regressive tax cuts permanent? By starting more wars of opportunity abroad? By further undercutting American workers in the interests of global capitalism? By finishing the destruction of the republic?
Seems to me that Palin can pound her fascistic fists all she likes, McCain can summon his plastic folksiness all he wishes, and they're still stuck ladling out the same old same old while trying to portray it as being new and improved. They have nowhere to go but down in this quixotic windmill tilt, no matter how fiery and indignant Palin gets, or how cynical and sarcastic McCain becomes.
They're selling political products the majority of America doesn't want to buy. So, apart from selling a cult of personality, they offer nothing at all. That's going to bite them on the ass in the coming weeks.
Don't be demoralized, Democrats and Independents -- change can come, if you fight for it. And McCain/Palin simply aren't offering it, and they know it.
