I am sick beyond description of the deceptive, manipulative, insulting and flat-out lying coming from the Republican side of the presidential race this year. Granting, slash and burn and politics has been the Republican way for a good number of elections now and it has typically worked, but this year it bothers me evn more than usual.
This is not a game people! This election is far, far too important to our nation to turn it into the kind of idiocy that’s being done. And what concerns me is how many people are actually buying it!
Are we such a crass and fear-driven nation that simply waving a flag is all we need to be convinced? Have we become that simplistic and “sound bite driven” that this is all we think we need to know?
It saddens me immensely that we have a candidate (whether or not you agree with him) who is willing to speak respectfully and acknowledge and honor different views as he presents his own. He has immense style and grace – something we haven’t seen in a long, long itme. But he’s being turned into a cartoon character.
It disgusts me that the Repulican party actually turned his popularity into a bad thing by doing the whole “rock star” insanity. Tell me how it’s a bad thing that the rest of the world thinks he’s a person who brings hope and excitement to the world – not just to our nation. And this is BAD????????
And then there’s the whole Sarah Palin thing — bluntly, it makes me want to throw up.
If the Republicans pull this off, it tells me that we have become a nation that I’m not at all sure I want to be part of any more. It would mean that darkness and fear has settled onto us – and that is definitely not the America that I believe in.
