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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

If only she were going away after today....
Posted by Jill | 5:33 AM
One way or the other, we are going to be stuck listening to this screaming, deranged, hate-filled, lunatic Christofascist nutball for the next four years:

In a speech just now in Missouri, Sarah Palin unleashed some of the most ostentatious POW-POW-POWing of the campaign, and strongly implied that Dems think the "terrorists" are the "good guys."



After saying that some Dems want to cut defense spending by a quarter, she said:



"What do they think? Do they think that the terrorists have all of a sudden become the good guys, and changed their minds? No! The terrorists still seek to destroy America and her allies and all that it is that is that we stand for: Freedom, tolerance, equality."


A bit later in the speech came the POW-POW-POWing:



"And for a season a man may inspire with his words, but it's been for his lifetime that John McCain has inspired with his trustworthy and heroic deeds. On the decks of aircraft carriers and in the lonely cell of a prison camp -- and in the halls of the US capital -- John McCain has always proudly put his country first, he has always fought for America!

"John served our nation in uniform for twenty two years. He spent five and a half years as a POW. He has met great adversity in his life and in the service to this country. He knows how tough challenges are overcome, he will not wave the white flag of surrender to the terrorists, he will not -- as our opponent did -- he will not support cutting off funding for our troops over in the war zone."



And so Palin's final appeal on the eve of almost certain defeat puts it right out in the open: It's war hero versus ally of terrorists who want to destroy America and kill your children.



Which gives rise to a question: What American presidential campaign has been more crassly militaristic and jingoistic than this one? Bush in 2004 pales in comparison. TPM's resident trivia fanatic, Eric Kleefeld, suggests James Polk's 1844 campaign, based on an appeal to expand America's borders by force, or George Wallace's 1968 campaign, in which he chose as his running mate someone who helped pioneer carpet-bombing. Thoughts, anyone?



As I've said before, if Barack Obama wins tonight, we have exactly five minutes to celebrate. Then it's back to work. Because Madame Lipstick-on-a-Pig is not going away.

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