The current flap over Senator Obama use of the phrase "lipstick on a pig" is so unworthy of a dignified Presidential campaign or any serious choice by the American public that it defies imagination. Need I tell you that no one, NO ONE associated Senator Obama's use of a common phrase political campaigns to Governor Palin until the McCain Campaign did. If you read Senator Obama's actual remarks, you'd be hard pressed to find anything of the sort aimed at Palin. The notion of Obama using "lipstick on a pig" as subterfuge is a Republican invention - they are the ones calling their own VP nominee a pig with lipstick.
Let's lay our cards on the table . . . shall we? Republicans have perfected these dirty campaign tactics. The Republicans can't win on issues because their party is at odds with the interests of the vast majority of Americans. This is because the Republican Party is in the grip of "movement conservatism." Movement conservatism serves the political needs of corporate and financial elites by espousing capitalism-without-constraints as a utopian vision . . . and as one of the litmus tests of Americanism. Consequently, Republicans have an allergy to doing anything that conflicts with the interests of Wall Street. The same people who bank-roll conservative politicians are the same people who brought us Enron, the collapse of private pensions, the current mortgage debacle, $4 gasoline, the crisis of our financial system and the looming recession. They can't run on their record because they are the problem!
But "movement conservatism" plays to people's fears. It has to. It must destroy people's hope for ever achieving a more just arrangement of society. Need I tell you that 9/11 was manna from Heaven to movement conservatives? It gave them a huge opportunity to drown hope by emphasizing fear.
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