Republicans are Officially Insane ... and Democrats are Wimps

Are you kidding me? The party that brought us Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, Katrina and "Heck of a job Brownie" is trying to get away with it? The party that brought us a dumb war in Iraq and claimed Saddam Hussein planned 9-11 is trying to hand over to themselves? A Republican Administration takes a dump on the constitution, tortures people, taps Americans' phones and yet this election is about whether Barack and Michelle Obama are American enough? About whether or not Barack is wearing a flag pin? About so-called values?

Enough of this rubbish!

Look at the morons on stage at yesterday's Republican Convention. Rudy Giuliani, whose whole strategy for winning what he must have thought was the presidency of Florida was repeating a noun, a verb and 9-11. He forgot to tell his value voters about his three divorces, his marriage to his cousin, his support for abortion rights, and the time he spent with a gay roommate after being kicked out of the state house by his ex-wife.

Mitt Romney. I quote conservative commentator David Brooks , "Mitt Romney's speech was insane." Here's the man who, as governor of Massachusetts, implemented state-wide health care now standing on the stage bashing liberals. Only, he forgot to mention that as governor of Massachusetts, he was pro-choice. Here are some direct quotes from his speech:

We need change all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big government liberals and elect John McCain!

Except we won't be throwing out a "liberal" administration but George Bush and Dick Cheney! Not only that, the congress has been in Republican hands for 6 out of the last 8 years! This, a government that received record surplus from Bill Clinton and will be passing on a record deficit, two wars, a weakened dollar and record foreclosures to the next administration. Romney continues,

It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!

Brought to you by the party that wants to spy on you, decide for you whether or not you should have a Down-syndrome baby, and send your sons and daughters off to war on false pretenses.

And at Saddleback, after Barack Obama dodged and ducked every direct question, John McCain hit the nail on the head: radical violent Islam is evil, and he will defeat it!

Can I just say, my dear Mitt Romney, that the men who killed the founder of your religion and forced Mormons to migrate to Utah were convinced they were confronting evil. As Obama said in the aforementioned Saddleback Forum, "... it is important for us to have some humility in how we approach the issue of confronting evil, but you know a lot of evil has been perpetrated based on the claim that we are confronting evil."

And then, our dear Sarah Palin. I have not the words. The least the Republicans could have done is try not to mock us by presenting another candidate who could not pronounce "nuclear." I won't say anything about her family but let me just say we've seen the result of her abstinence-only program and her reduction of funds supporting teenage mothers.

You know, if the Democrats can't win this one, then they don't deserve to. They need to stop cowering in a corner, stop playing defense, and start presenting their own values aggressively.

Update I: Here's a shout out to the ladies of Code Pink who interrupted McCain's speech.
Update II: NY Times has an article about the Republicans running like they weren't in power.
Update III: McCain on the Republican ticket? Lipstick on a pig. I think he's a great guy, I genuinely admire him and listening to the guy's speech this evening, I was like, "I could live with him in the Oval Office." Luckily for me, I had tuned in to the speeches that came before so I know what party he's dragging along with him to the White House. By the way, the Republican Party didn't think he was such a hero in 2000, did they? Thanks, but no thanks. "Drill here, Drill now!"