Fuck, someone get me a Xanax

Warning this is about the Republican Party and its presidential and vice presidential nominees, so if you’re at all squeamish or bored by this topic, fuck off and get out of my face. Since my days consist of obsessive computer note taking, I tend to have lots of random moments to troll the Internet. Generally the only things that are interesting to read are (insert your favorite sports teams here) and the current election. Today’s topic is this election.

So for the first time in a long time, I was really excited about a political election. Usually in any political election, city, state, nationwide, there’s a Republican dbag and someone who’s also a Democrat dbag. (See Bush vs. Clinton, Feingold vs. Michels, Gore vs. Bush….you get the picture.) Well this year its John McCain and Barak Obama. McCain has been around a long time, and has done a lot good stuff in Senate and has been known as a standup gentleman. In 1992, he campaigned vigorously for fellow vet Bob Dole. He didn’t mince words and refused to use to discuss Clinton’s, well-known to the political establishment, sexual vices. On the night that Bob Dole lost the presidential election, McCain was the only politician at Dole’s side. McCain has also gone out of his way to forgive the dirty hippies who protested the Vietnam War, and some who actually went to Vietnam and helped spread North Vietnamese propaganda. In addition to these qualities, McCain also developed great political humility. McCain lost a decisive South Carolina primary in 2000 to W. Bush because of Karl Rove’s smear tactics. In which Rove had a polling company call voters and ask how they would feel about John McCain if they knew that he had an illegitimate black child. McCain does in fact a Bangladeshi child whom he adopted. Also during that primary, he kowtowed to the racists in South Carolina and refused to tell them that he thought it was inappropriate for them to keep the Confederate Flag on the State House. He has written that this is one of the things he most regretted during the 2000 campaign. McCain ended up losing narrowly to W. Bush in South Carolina, and the rest we know is history.

Let’s fast-forward to today, where McCain and his party are running several ads that are just plain false. First, lets start with the whole lipstick on a pig remark. Here’s what Obama actually said in reference to McCain and Palin adopting his slogan of “Change.”
"You can put lipstick on a pig," he said as the crowd cheered. "It's still a pig."
"You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink."
"We've had enough of the same old thing." Well McCain’s campaign has taken this as an affront to Palin because she called herself a pit bull with lipstick on.

Second, has anyone seen this ad?



It’s very well done and entirely false. The objective of the actual bill was to teach an age appropriate, as determined by the school district, lesson to children about the dangers of strangers and sexual predators. So its not about sex, but that it’s wrong for strangers to touch them. I’m pretty sure I got this education when I was that young.

Third, Palin is just straight lying about refusing that “Bridge to Nowhere.”



Because A) She was totally for it when running for governor. B) The Congress refused to let Alaska to spend that money on the Bridge. C) She got the money anyways.


Fourth) Palin hasn’t given one interview yet. She hasn’t taken any question from the press. She may be elected to be Vice President in 2 months and what the fuck do we know about her. She likes to hunt from airplanes, has a selective memory, is for abstinence only education despite the fact that her daughter got knocked the fuck up, and can recite the Republican mantra.

Fifth) I can go on and on.

Now, why is this all a big deal? Well, the Republican Party can nominate whomever they want. They can act as sleazy as they want. Remember, this is America folks. But what I can’t stand is that despite all this, he’s gaining on (and in some beating) Obama in the polls. I know Obama’s not perfect, but he’s not lying to your face. Fuck 53% of you America. Wake up or get the fuck out, seriously.