God. Hockey. Drilling. Troops. Moose.

"McCAIN / PALIN / GOP" HYPOCRISY #5: THE "TAX CUT" LIES
McCain accused Obama of trying to raise taxes. But Obama has continually advocated tax cuts for the middle-class with annual salaries of less than $250,000.00, which is about 98% of the population. However, McCain doesn't tell the public his health insurance plan is going to effectively raise taxes for all Americans that have health insurance, while making permanent tax cuts for the riches upper 2% of Americans.

"McCAIN / PALIN / GOP" HYPOCRISY #6: THE "BRIDGE TO NOWHERE" LIES
Sarah Palin claimed on several occasions that she turned down $350-million of federal government earmarks for the "bridge to nowhere". But what actually happened is Sarah campaigned to get the money for the "bridge to nowhere", then flip-flopped after McCain voted the bridge down when she won the Governor's office. Ironically, Alaska still got the 'bridge to nowhere' funds but it was used instead to build a "highway to nowhere".

"McCAIN / PALIN / GOP" HYPOCRISY #7: THE "PLANE SALE ON EBAY" LIES
Sarah Palin insinuated she sold state plane on EBay for a profit, and more recently McCain repeated it as a fact that the plane was actually sold on EBay for a profit. That lie has now been debunked, and the good Christian Sarah Palin has no shame that she was caught in another lie. The plane could not sell on EBay so it was taken down and sold "privately for a lost".

"McCAIN / PALIN / GOP" HYPOCRISY #8: THE "ABSTINENCE-ONLY" LIES
Sarah Palin as an Ultra Extreme Religious-Right advocate uses her State office bully-pulpit to knock down public school sex-education, while plugging her "abstinence-only" religious views to public schools. Ironically, her 17-year old daughter Bristol fails to practice the "abstinence before marriage" views her mother is trying to push in Alaska schools. Then Sarah tries to hide it with another lie by telling the school where Bristol attends that her daughter must drop out because she has Mono. Sarah continued to hold fast to the Mono lie until rumors break loose just after her VP announcement. It was only then the "abstinence-only" hypocrite came clean.

"McCAIN / PALIN / GOP" HYPOCRISY #9: THE "TROOPER-GATE" LIES
Sarah Palin claimed she never called the State Trooper Magistrate to have her ex-brother-in-law fired. Soon after investigators got on the seen, emails were retrieved to dispute that fact, and now all seven of Sarah's state appointees have refused to testify. It has been learned that more than 20+ plus calls were made to the State Trooper Magistrate regarding the firing of Sarah's brother-in-law, and because the seven witnesses have 'lawyered-up', the investigators must use subpoenas to get the seven that initially volunteered to testify to give an account of what happened.

"McCAIN / PALIN / GOP" HYPOCRISY #10: THE "POLITICS BEFORE COUNTRY" LIES
McCain and Rove accused Obama of picking Virginia Governor Tim Kane as VP for political expediency, and also because Tim Kane would bring a southern state into the Democratic "Win Column". Instead Obama went for Senator Joe Biden to sure up the leadership ticket for the White House. McCain assuming it would be an Obama-Kane ticket, wrongly accused Obama of putting politics ahead of country. Well McCain and Rove got busted. The whole world (except blinded Religious-Right) witnessed McCain picking the least qualified Republican to be his VP in hopes of: (1.) stealing Hillary's voters from Obama; (2.) pleasing James Dobson's religious-right. Clearly a hypocritical VP pick by McCain for the "sole purpose of political ambitions", is now on record for the world???s eternal observation.

"McCAIN / PALIN / GOP" HYPOCRISY #11: THE "SADDLEBACK CONE-OF-SILENCE" CHEATER-LIES
It was McCain's responsibility to be in Pastor Rick Warren's "Cone of Silence" before Senator Obama got the first question. McCain was not in the cone-of-silence. Therefore McCain cheated. The issue is not whether McCain heard any of the questions posed to Obama, the issue is that cheating did occur when McCain did not follow the rules to be where he was suppose to be, at the time he was suppose to be there.

"McCAIN / PALIN / GOP" HYPOCRISY #12: THE "IRAQ TIMETABLE" LIES
Senator Obama was consistent in his call for a responsible U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq under an agreed timetable. McCain and Bush said "absolutely" no timetables and anything like timetables was tantamount to "cut-and-run". It was Bush and McCain's desire to stay in Iraq indefinitely. Only after Obama took McCain's challenge and went to Iraq & Afghanistan, and secured an informal agreement to pull U.S. troops out by 2010, did Bush and McCain changed there views to accept timetables. Now Bush and McCain don't call timetables cut-and-run any longer.

McCain proved that he is not fit to lead this country. A man who cannot stand up to his own party cannot stand up to hostile foreign powers. He chose her because Karl Rove wouldn't allow him to choose Joe Lieberman. He put winning above this nation. Face it, the maverick is no more and McCain is a shell of his former self. He loves the narrative of his bio even if it not quite true. Would an honorable man hire the man who smeared his wife and daughter eight years ago? Would an honorable man embrace men that he labeled agents of intolerance for the sake of winning an election? At some point in the next few weeks, responsible journalists will ask why so many veterans are opposed to McCain. Someone will ask him why he rejected the GI Bill. At some point when the media gets tired of the Palin mess, they will discuss issues like the economy and oh yeah, those two wars we're fighting. Perhaps the media can stop driving the story because they want a close election and get down to the isubstantive ssues that face this nation. The same media who packaged and sold GW Bush is attempting to sell us McCain/Palin. Let's not forget that the Republicans created the mess and they cannot be trusted to fix it.

I have a real hard time with accepting any dishonesty as it simply destroys everything. There is no way a productive society can be built on accepting dishonesty and when it is accepted, the results are a constantly deteriorating status where those that have just keep improving their status and those that don???t have just keep losing ??? until it all falls apart. Dishonesty not only includes lying to others, in fact what is simply worst is lying to oneself. That occurs when not wanting to recognize the truth in order to just rationalize what benefits oneself and it is literally the worst kind of dishonesty. Take the current political situation. To avoid dealing with the truth and with the issues the Republican Party now declares that it ???isn???t about the issues, it is about the personalities???. If that isn???t a veiled effort to disguise their failure in the past and their lack of having a real plan to change things for the future, I don???t know what is. It is simply an attempt to distract yet even when considered, even then the Democrats would win as Obama???s sincerity beats McCain???s subservience and Biden???s capabilities far exceed Palin???s limit as just an ???attack dog???. The truth is that even the Republican nominee John McCain declares that, under the Republicans, the last eight years have been a miserable failure, they have lost the trust of the people and yet he still offers no specific solutions and has literally demonstrated no efforts over the past eight years to correct the problems. Today he claims only that change is necessary, literally copying Obama, and that he and his ???pit bull with lipstick??? will accomplish, somehow as yet to be defined, those changes. Obviously people???s attachment to and acceptance of those presentations is strictly emotional and not logical but that is the problem. Unless the voters are willing to accept that their current allegiances may be wrong and detrimental to the overall goal, we could literally have more of the same. Imagine having a President John McCain who is again subservient to the (pseudo) conservative leaders he has been trying hard to patronize all along and also the aggressive inexperienced ???pit bull with lipstick??? as Vice President trying to solve our problems for all Americans and to perform diplomacy across the whole world. A really scary image at best.

I thought McCain's speech was totally awful. It was so boring, and he seemed so bored during the middle, that I got up and did some cleaning around the house...listening in vain for something interesting like economic policy or any..policy.

I shed a few tears during his POW account but then I've heard it so many times, it is just getting maudlin at this point. I don't see what it has to do with what he's going to do in the White House - tho I appreciate it shows his character. Tough time..wow!

So there wasn't anything worth applauding - the audience looked like a bunch of Neo-Nazis (all white except for about two Blacks, oh, and then Cindy's friends from that African nation she has been saving)...

Not even Palin's speech was terribly high on substance, though I imagine her connection to ANWR will certainly "persuade" McCain to flip-flop on his stance against drilling there, considering the enthusiasm for drilling expressed at the convention.

I am looking forward to the next 60 days, as I think that actually more and more people will sway over toward Obama, except for the Evangelical fanatics who think Palin is truly going to do something about protecting fetuses.

The economy is everyone's main concern and the GOP had nothing to say about it. Scary to think that people would "cheat" so that McCain-Palin could win the White House and we'd be facing another four years of economic decline as poor McCain struggles to sustain a dying economy that will pull the entire world down with it.

Oh well... more of the same, unless I'm surprised and intelligence-over-sentiment really does prevail this November 4.

ABOUT SARAH PALIN:

http://webpages.charter.net/suasponte/

If you really want to know Sarah Palin's history (in detail) this is a "must read". It was written by Anne Kilkenny, a resident of Wasilla, Alaska.

ABOUT SARAH PALIN:

http://webpages.charter.net/suasponte/

If you really want to know Sarah Palin's history (in detail) this is a "must read". It was written by Anne Kilkenny, a resident of Wasilla, Alaska.

So let's see if we can summarize the GOP platform based on policies and statements put forth by McCain and Palin.

1) Provide disproportionate tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans (cuz you can never have too much freekin' money)

2) Eliminate all porkbelly spending and federal earmarks (unless you're the governor of Alaska)

3) Show our military might wherever needed overseas (cuz the military has SO many underutilized soldiers with nothing to do. Can you say DRAFT?)

4) Continue to deregulate the energy and financial industries (cuz they are so capable of self-regulation, as can be seen in the oil futures market and the mortgage industry)

5) Keep government small and respect state's right. Do not intrude in the policies and decisions of states (unless you happen to be gay, need an abortion, or use medical marijuana during cancer treatments)

6) Continue to push for abstinence-only sex education in the public schools (cuz you can see how well that worked for Palin's family)

7) Strive to improve public education to make us more competitive in the global economy (except that we'll replace evolution with creationism)

8) Ignore the melting ice caps resulting from global warming (cuz who gives a damn if polar bears go extinct. There are plenty of other animals to hunt anyway)

9) Use up the planet's natural resources as rapidly as we can--drill, baby, drill (cuz that's what God intended)

10) and as McCain was recently quoted, "The economy is basically sound". (cuz, holly crap--he has more houses than he can count, so the economy must be sound FOR HIM).

I have an observation about all of those Republicans that now consider Sen. McCain more fit to be our leader because he was a POW in Viet Nam.

In the Republican primaries of 2000, when Sen. McCain was running against George W. Bush your "beloved" president waged a non-stop attack over his very character as a POW hero . In 2000 Rove started spreding rummors that Sen. MCcain was mentally unstable due to his incarceration in Viet Nam, and therefore unfit to lead. The Bush campaign painted a picture of a rage prone candidate in need of a Doctor. On top of that the Bush campaign in South Carolina started calling Sen. McCain the "*** candidate". Bush's campaign slurs included homosexuality, illegitimate children, and a drug addict wife.

Bush won in South Carolina, and Bush won most of the Right Wing vote and the so called "base" of the Republican party. I most point out that the "base" is exactly the same one that now calls him a hero. How ironic Republicans, how ironic indeed.

For in the end when it comes to vile behavior against a true hero, it was you Republicans from the Right and the base of the Republican party..... The "patriotic" people that will litterlay smear even the bravest of our heroes to win an election.

To put it in ither words dear Republicans , Sen, McCain was and is a decent man whose service I admire tremendously. I don't agree with much of his views as many Democrats...... But most importantly no Democrat I respect will ever go to the despicable extent your "choice" in 2000 went to attack the record of this great American with YOUR FULL SUPPORT .

The fact that you Republicans given the chance to elect Sen. McCain over this poor excuse of a human you gave us as President for 8 years speaks volumes about your judgment. The fact that you stood silent when Sen. McCain was beeing denigrated in such unfair way , while you attack Obama simply for not agreeing with your views as unpatriotic, or worst tells me how hypocrtical you are.

You see Republicans I don't have a problem with Sen. McCain and I would be proud to call him my President any day if the only thing that mattered to be a good leader was experience, and a good character. Unfortunatelly that is not the case as any five year old can tell you. I and many Americans like me do have a problem whith McCain 's ideas, who supports him, and what is behind him..... That would be Neo-Cons, Religious Conservative nut jobs, pollution crazy give me a long cancer types, drill us to oblivion nuts, etc.

And I would stand up against any one that dares to call this true patriot a ***, or a nut case, or a homosexual...... That would be you Republicans .........

OH my how life turns as well as fortunes. It most be painful for some of you Reps to be looking at McCain now as your only hope to power.

Gotta love the discussions here. As for me, the RNC was disappointing to me. I waited eagerly to hear John McCain's plan to better our failing economy, his plan to get health care to the millions without access to it, and what we as Americans need and will do to become oil independent. These are things he has discussed before yet no plan, no answer, not even a hint of his thoughts other than "we must" came from his lips. His story of the Viet Nam war and his captivity warmed our hearts, but this is a story that we have listened to many a time, on television, radio, his speeches, and from the pundits that say this will not be enough for him to win the Presidency. They were right.
As a result of the lack of a real plan, and I must admit very reluctantly, my family of 5 and myself will now vote for Barak Obama. With the high costs of fuel, food, travel and everyday living expenses and mortgage, I have real issues that need to be answered. Barak Obama at least offered that. Sorry John.