The whole Republican election year strategy is designed to undermine the public's temptation to trust the Democrats offer of a much more authentic hope for reform in this time of economic desperation. So, in this new presidential election cycle the GOP is set to betray America again with the old Harlot's "deny-attack-lie-and smear" campaign against the Democratic candidates. The GOP handlers are assured that they can peel off the dumbest segments of Americans who believe everything the Mainstream Media tells them without questioning it, and they appear to be correct in their assumption.
EGOP election-year slogans play to the publics' fears about national security and 'experience' in the current presidential candidates, and those fears will lead the less educated, more gullible segment of the voting public to view Republican promises as 'looking good'. Of course we know those promises will evaporate after the election is over.
"America First" has been re-invented into a code phrase that serves as a synonym for John McCain's banking on his 'war hero' status and his faux reformism to hide behind the mantle of pseudo-patriotism, when in fact he is an ambitious and doctrinaire neocon. He knows people will snap up the lie that Republicans are all about fixing the mess that they themselves made of the USA because the public 'knows John McCain' and people have seen him over the years and are comfortable with his 'maverick' image. Never mind that John McCain's Senate votes helped make the current mess..
Then into the mix comes Sarah Palin, McCain's Vice Presidential pick.. This woman looks like she is a Mary-Kay salesperson with her retro hairdo and $375 rimless glasses and her coyly sassy "Marion the Librarian" mannerisms. She appears to mix fake innocence with a real politician's instincts and an adept quickness for making use of situational dishonesty when on the spot, as needed. She has an actress's sense of how to play to the crowd while feigning sincerity. She is deeply ignorant of just about everything outside of her little world in Alaska, but like many Americans, she is self-assured in her ignorance and a quick study under the tutoring of McCain's speech writers. She even reminds one a little of George W. Bush during the 2000 presidential election, in that, in spite of her ignorance, she exaggerates her expertise anyway, as are most neocons do.
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