Plessner Chronicle Blog

Let’s face the facts! Republican statements or claims are often just not true. They are lies! Their use of the word “elitists” to brand Democratic candidates and liberal or progressive voters is a lie. The Republican propaganda machine(that is what the Republican-FOX News joint disinformation effort really is) has done an amazing job of smearing Democrats and liberals with crimes the Republicans have themselves committed.

Take the case of calling Democrats the party of Spend! Spend! Spend! when the Bush presidency has been the most financially reckless presidency, spending the Clinton budget surplus and then running up the national debt by trillions of dollars! And it was all done with the help of a Republican controlled Congress.

The Republicans are truly the party of the elitists, not the Democrats. The Republican party is controlled by business interests that have billions to spend on elections, billions they have received largely because of tax breaks given to them by Republicans and withheld from middle and working class Americans.

And to enhance the wealth of the members of their own elite class, the Republican party has created a new category of welfare recipients — contractors who do the work of dismissed government employees at much greater cost, while taxpayers are told that contractors are cheaper, more efficient and more competent. That’s another lie!

The other factions in the Republican party — the white lower class, Evangelicals, other conservative voters, anti-immigration zealots and people like the Alaskans who want to leave the United States and become a separate country — are manipulated into thinking they have real control over their party when they actually don’t. It is the party of the elitists.

The worst and potentially most dangerous truth about the Republican party is its anti-intellectualism. At a time in history when we are faced with the growing technological superiority of countries like India and China, the last thing America needs is unqualified leaders and a hatred of knowledge and intellectual capacity.

While our economy is in a Republican-built toilet, the last thing America needs is more of the Republican “let big business do whatever it wants” philosophy.

The Republican party uses its lower class followers — the ones who have lost their jobs because of the Republican elite’s love of “fair trade”, another liar’s catchphrase. And those Americans who have lost their homes can thank the Republican hatred of regulation of the banking industry for their plight.

Now the Republicans want us to elect two seriously deficient candidates — dare we say incompetent candidates — for president and vice president of the United States.

American voters must understand that John McCain is absolutely NOT ready for the presidency and Sarah Palin is a less qualified candidate than even Dan Quayle.

McCain’s history of impulsive behavior — as when he nominated a candidate for vice president without any real vetting— is just one example of his lack of management skills.

McCain’s record of uncontrollable anger, which he admits has bedeviled him over his entire life, makes him a dangerous candidate for president. Do we really need a president who cannot control his temper holding the passwords to our nuclear weapons?

Voters shouldn’t believe the fable that McCain is a maverick! John McCain has voted with George W. Bush 95% of the time on the issues of war and spending! The truth is that he is controlled by the same people who guide George W. Bush. They are the same power players in the Republican party’s elite.

Most troubling is McCain’s involvement with the imperialist neo-conservative movement that lied us into an illegal and immoral war against Iraq, which had no roll in the atrocities of September 11, 2001 and never held nuclear weapons. McCain’s campaign manager is a leading neo-conservative think-tanker and an agent of a foreign power, Georgia. That involvement appears to be conflict of interest and a potential cause to question his loyalty to the United States.

John McCain’s choice for vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous. During the evening when Palin’s selection was announce, Cindy McCain, John’s trophy wife stated, “She has international experience. Alaska is the state closest to Russia and Canada!”

Though Sarah Palin is both attractive and obviously intelligent, her experiences in politics limited and her knowledge of world affairs appear nonexistent. Her views on cultural and social issues, though attractive to a large group of Republican voters, are at odds with what most Americans believe is the right course for this country.

And her family, though photogenic, reflects a lack of good parental example or personal discipline. Though she is opposed to sex education in school for teenage children, she has been confronted by a daughter who became pregnant while in high school. One must wonder at her parenting skills and her lack of ability in guiding her own children, let alone the families of all Americans.

While we respect her’s and her husband’s desire to have as many children as they wish, we must wonder how a woman of her intellect, sophistication and age could have made the irresponsible decision to have another child, given the wide-spread understanding of the danger of such a union producing a Down’s Syndrome baby.

If the people elect John McCain and Sarah Palin one must fear for the survival of the United States as a nation and our society as one of justice and freedom.

We surely do not need another four years of Bush-Cheney management skills and stupidity.