This lipstick on a pig thing has gotten out of hand. To recap, in her speech before the Country Club (Republican) convention, Sarah Palin aroused the audience and much of the right wing media, some apparently sexually, by saying that the only difference between hockey moms and pit bulls was lipstick.
Then Barack Obama gave a speech in which he listed the many ways in which John McCain is trying to resell failed or questionable Country Club (Republican) positions and policies. Obama finished with an oft used analogy: trying to pretty up the failed and questionable policies from the past is like putting lipstick on a pig, a phrase, by the way, that John McCain has himself used on occasion.
Country Clubbers (Republicans) gleefully countered by charging that Obama was making a derogatory reference to Sarah Palin. The Obama campaign has of course denied that.
But instead of being defensive the Obama people, in the opinion of the Cranky Old Guy, should go on the offense. Here’s a suggestion for a new campaign ad.
Clip 1: Sarah Palin is making one of her cute statements that has turned out to be inaccurate at best; for example, the statement that she rejected Congress’s attempt to fund the bridge to nowhere when in fact she was for it initially and only became against it after Congress had already turned thumbs down.
Clip 2: John McCain is shown making one of his lipstick on a pig statements.
Clip 3: Another of Sarah’s half-truths is shown, such as her implication that she disposed of the Alaskan Governor’s plane on ebay.
Clip 4: John McCain utters another lipstick on a pig statement.
Clip 5: Another Sarah half-truth.
Clip 6: Another John McCain lipstick on a pig.
Clip 7: “I’m Barack Obama and I approve this message.”
And that’s how Cranky would put lipstick on a pig.
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Lipstick on a pig? What about lipstick on the nanny? The fact of arousing the media sexually is absurd, and Cranky should be ashamed of himself. Unless he was guilty of viewing the speech after taking one of his 'little blue pills,' and fell pray to those types of thoughts himself. People change their minds and opinions about topics that impact things such as elections(perhaps the reneging on the public election financing comes to mind.)
ReplyDeletePerhaps the fact that the movie set used in the Democratic convention can be used for the inauguration--oh wait, the planning of that party required the set to be demolished due to a football game the next day and was the only way to have the field cleared in time. Perhaps someone from the party would realize that prior and not plan so grand?
Only 50+ days until the election...and I am wondering how many yard signs Cranky has in his front yard.
Cranky is absolutely correct and Ms Palin and company should start talking about serious problems plaguing this country. Trying to divert the conversation to frivolous issues only shows how desperate the Republicans are. Ms Palin should also begin to tell the complete truth and stop her exaggerations. She is not a role model for women.
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