Republican Hootenanny

Watched a bit of the Republican National Convention this morning and I must say it filled me with distaste, rage, frustration, and worry. How can there be so many ignorant, short-sighted assholes in the world? How can so many people think the status quo is A-OK? That the Bush Administration has been a good thing? The speakers spent most of the time attacking Obama on petty, exaggerated, and often hypocritical grounds. And the people in the audience were hooting and hollering in agreement! They all looked like a bunch of soul-less automatons. Perhaps a deep-seated guilt eating away at them on a subconscious level?

If McCain wins this election, I think I will have to become a serial killer of Republicans and greedy, ignorant people (usually they are one and the same). Even though I say we cannot move back if he wins, we still will. It's just going to be with SERIOUS misgivings, anger and fear.

Palin's speech was a snide, smarmy, fear-mongering, childish attack piece written by Bush's speech writer (who only met her once last week, apparently). The whole thing just makes me sick.

On the plus side, some people within the Republican party (hopefully a large percentage) aren't too confident about the whole thing:

TRANSCRIPT:

Mike Murphy, former McCain advisor: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor work. Engler, Whitman, Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. And these guys, this is all like how you want to (inaudible) this race. You know, just run it up. And it's not gonna work.

Peggy Noonan, former Reagan speechwriter: It's over.

Murphy: Still, McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good.

NBC's Chuck Todd: Don't you think the Palin pick was insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too (inaudible)

Noonan: I saw Kay this morning.

Murphy: They're all bummed out.

Todd: I mean, is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?

Noonan: The most qualified? No. I think they went for this, excuse me, political [B.S.] about narratives and (inaudible) the picture.

Murphy: I totally agree.

Noonan: Every time the Republicans do that because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at and they blow it.

Murphy: You know what's really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism and this is cynical.

Todd: And as you called it, gimmicky.