Even conservative Washington Post columnist and Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer has trouble swallowing the latest Republican talking points, shoveled out at this week's Republican convention. In his column today, Mr. Krauthammer points out the glaring hole in the McCain campaign strategy, saying, "The problem is the inherent oddity of the incumbent party running on
change. Here were Republicans -- the party that controlled the White House
for eight years and both houses of Congress for five -- wildly cheering
the promise to take on Washington. I don't mean to be impolite, but
who's controlled Washington this decade?"
I keep waiting for a Democrat -- heck, maybe even Senator Obama -- to point out the lies that flooded the convention center in St. Paul. When Sarah Palin was applauded for saying that she said "no thanks to that bridge to nowhere" which had been championed by Senator Stevens, she lied. She stood side by side with Senator Stevens fighting for that bridge and justifying the wasteful spending that it represented. Indeed, Alaska received over $200 million for that project and has never returned a dime of that money, even though its governor said "no thanks."
Paul Krugman summed it up most effectively when he labeled the Republican approach to this campaign "The Resentment Strategy," pointing out that Republicans are attempting to depict Democrats as elitists "who think they're better than you." Republicans, who have spent the last eight years doing everything they can to eliminate the middle class, believe they can win the votes of the broken -- and broke -- by painting Democrats as snobs. Are Democrats really going to stand idle while Republicans grab their working class clothes and pretend to put them on? Is there actually a person of any ethnicity who watched the Republican convention, saw the endless multitudes of white faces, and still believes that the Republican party cares about anyone but white, wealthy Americans? If you are one of those people, get some therapy or get an education because either you hate yourself or you're not educated enough to reach a reasonable conclusion.
While it's refreshing and odd to have a Fox News commentator step out of line as Mr. Krauthammer did, I'm sure his next column will be more like David Brooks's column yesterday in The New York Times wherein he marveled at McCain's impressive and bold choice of Sarah Palin and complimented McCain by saying he had the "heart of an insurgent." Apparently, in the new Republican world where millionaire Mitt Romney can attack the "Eastern elites" and anti-abortion crusader Sarah Palin can applaud her daughter's "choice," it is now a compliment to have the "heart of an insurgent," the very thing the Republican party has spent eight years killing, maiming, and holding up on a stick as a reason to ignore the Constitution.
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