McCain’s Convention – A Bunch of Venomous White Folk in Suits

September 3, 2008 | Posted by Steve

It’s amazing how homogeneous the Republican party has become these days.  All you need to do is take a gander across the crowds at the convention.  Suits.  Ties.  Specifically, gray suits and red ties.  The women are perfectly coiffed, their dresses looking as if they are prepared to go to a dinner party at La Bec Fin.  Even the guys wearing cowboy hats or baseball caps had suits on from the neck down.  It would have been laughable if it were not so darned flabbergasting.

Contrast McCain’s convention to Obama’s.  There were some rough-edged folks on the floor of the Democratic convention.  Truckers.  Waitresses.  Union types.  Hispanics, Blacks, Asians, Whites.  There were some suits, to be sure, but not nearly as many as at the Republican convention.

The Republican convention looks a lot like a reception at a whites-only country club.

The Democratic convention looked like a beer bash at the town park.

When Giuliani got up and gave his venom-laden, lie-riven, Rovian-quality introduction for Sarah Palin, you could see the true colors of the party come out.  He had the audacity to denigrate Obama’s community activism service and claim (falsly) that Obama had sponsored no legislation during his time in the US Senate.  He claimed Obama had no leadership experience.  He even made the comment, “Sarah Palin has more experience than the entire Democratic ticket combined!”

Uhhh…  Lemme see.  Joe Biden has 30 years in the Senate.  John McCain has 27.  I guess that means that even the second guy on the Democratic ticket is more qualified than the first guy on the Republican ticket.

Wait a minute…  Does that also mean Sarah Palin is more qualified than John McCain?

There’s a fine line between fire in the belly and venom on the lips.

Giuliani crossed that line.

Where Obama’s multi-ethnic, multi-class convention paid appropriate respect to McCain, McCain’s homogeneous, upper-crust convention has let the attack dogs loose on Obama with the worst kind of condescension and hate.

In years past I endorsed, but did not boost, Democratic candidates for President even as I endorsed, but did not boost, Republicans for local office and congress.  Gore was good, but did not thrill.  Kerry was smart, but failed to inspire confidence.  Either would have been better than “W.”

Even though Obama is not what I would call an ideal candidate, and I wish he had more experience, I have had ENOUGH of the bitter, rancorous Republican lie machine.  I am sick and tired of listening to the Republicans get away with hatred veiled as patriotism.  I am sick and tired of hearing them play to people’s fears instead of their highest hopes.

Before Sarah Palin even took the stage I had already had enough.  Saint Rudy had poured enough poison down my gullet to last me a lifetime.  After Sarah Palin took the stage and, as did Rudy, condescended again to Obama’s legacy of community service (as if community service organization in Chicago is a cake walk compared to being mayor of a 9000 person town in Alaska) I wanted to click off the TV.

The Republican convention offers no new ideas, only bitter old attacks.

And, judging by the polls, Americans are bellying up to the same old bar and swilling down the same old crap.

My friends, if you vote for John McCain after watching Fred Thompson’s sick, twisted attacks (most of which FactCheck.org debunked), Rudy Giuliani’s outright fabrications and condescension, or Sarah Palin’s vapid insistence that she’s somehow qualified to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency, you have lost your mind.

I couldn’t care less whether John McCain was the “old” John McCain of 2000, for whom I actually WANTED to vote.  It is time to throw these bums out. I am tired of the sham they are attempting to perpetrate, portraying themselves as “average” folk, when both their rhetoric and their appearance betray their upper-crust, government-hating, tax-slashing, war-mongering, venom-spewing behavior.

GONE.  Get them out.  Throw them out on the street!  Enough is enough!

I’ve had enough of rich, angry white guys (and gals) in suits defining what is “American” or “Patriotic.”  To me the definition of patriotism extends all the way down to those “community activists” that Rudy Giuliani so disdainfully dismissed.  It’s the “community activists,” like Obama, who FIX what’s wrong with this country and REALLY watch out for the “little guy.”

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