John Cusack: The Final Distraction: McCain/Palin Worse Than Bush

[WI_DEM]

We all know McCain has sold his soul to win. Big mistake: the Democrats are taking the GOP bait, especially on Palin. She is the ultimate distraction. If we're not careful she'll be the final distraction. The perfect new celebrity -- Sarah Barracuda -- to capture the message in the 24-hour spin orgy, all the while attacking Obama as an elite celebrity. Any narrative that focuses on her -- any -- is a win for Republicans, carrying an undercurrent of race wars, gender wars, class wars. All ending with a debate on God and a return visit to Rev. Wright.

Palin is a gateway drug to a back-alley brawl Obama can't win. A Joseph Conrad-produced reality show/sitcom with Palin replacing Roseanne Barr fighting for the little guy with sass and sex. Wonderful.

Watch McCain repeat "maverick" 300 times a day, like a mantra, 'til Election Day. Republicans and hockey moms against corruption and Lear jets. Orwell for second graders: distraction and chaos, phony scandals and bullshit patriotics from the crew that would install an inexperienced neophyte -- not even put through the crucible of the national stage -- a heartbeat away from the greatest nuclear arsenal the world has ever known, and not blink. Darkest reptilian politics that speak to the ultimate calcified cynicism of Republicans.

Democrats need to ignore her -- unless she speaks about policy -- maybe she can explain and solve the collapsing world markets -- and keep the focus relentlessly on the disastrous results of Bush/McCain/Republican rule. They need to remind voters of the disasters of the last seven-plus years. Specifically. And as people have been saying, we need to be mad as well as inspired...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-cusack/the-final-distraction-mcc_b_126672.html

[niyad]

1. k & r for this most important topic

[BOSSHOG]

2. I'm conflicted

I sure don't know how to run a campaign, (maybe, maybe not!) but she is living proof of mccain's poor judgement. I don't think she should be ignored. Obama doesn't have to contend with her but it has to be pointed out daily that this inexperienced religious zealot psychopath whose only foreign policy experience is that she lives near Russia would be a heartbeat away.

[PsN2Wind]

3. Ya know, Chief

I spent a lot o time in bars in Yokosuka, Sasebo, Kobe, Yamato and Sagami Otsuka so I was hoping to be Ambassador to Japan.

[BOSSHOG]

4. Its yours Shipmate and thanks for the volunteer spirit

Based on your criteria, I am a shooin for Ambassador to New Orleans.

[southern_belle]

5. k & r n/t

[Quantess]

6. I don't completely agree.

Sarah Palin has a lot of skeletons in her closet and I think it's worthwhile to examine them.

[electron_blue]

7. agreed. Keep your eyes on the prize. Palin is just a yippy dog at this point,

barking at our heels. Obama, Obama, Obama!

[ColbertWatcher]

8. They're not worse; they're the same. n/t

[MrsCorleone]

9. You go, John Cusack! Enough of Palin! Let's get to the meat

issues and watch them stumble around like the fools that they are.

Thanks WI_Dem for posting.