Fireball on the Runway

September 2nd, 2008 by TRex @ 3:14 pm| Posted in 2008 Race, Cap'n Mac |

Wow.  They really are disintegrating.

The cancellation of the first night of the Republican National Convention marks the renewal of the rivalry between George W. Bush and John McCain. Since their bitter contest over the Republican nomination in 2000, they have taken years to make peace. But now McCain’s last chance has collided with Bush’s legacy.

Hurricane Gustav was “a big blessing,” according to a source close to the McCain campaign.

Okay, now, simply for the let-them-eat-cakiness of that single bolded statement, I believe that the only solution for the GOP is mass suttee.  Today.  Now.  I’ll chop the wood myself.  Who do you suppose it was that made that remark?  Schmidt?  Rove, again?

But Mr. Blumenthal, I’m interrupting, aren’t I?  Do go on.

Almost certainly, Bush had to cancel his planned speech while Gustav loomed. But the sources say he didn’t like the idea and felt pushed. Bush is described by sources as “furious” at McCain for being deprived of his last appearance before his party, which nominated him twice, as a sitting president. He believes he is being treated disrespectfully.

Shuttering the convention for a night was probably inevitable given the hurricane, but to provide a cover-up for scratching Bush and Cheney it became absolutely necessary. But once the hurricane passed, Bush asserted his primacy as president and forced his way back on the schedule to deliver a satellite speech to the convention.

Isn’t it comforting to know that this bunch of screeching diva-britches have their fingers on the Big Red Button?

McCain’s selection of Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska reflected his impulse to reject Bush. As I explained in a previous article in the Huffington Post, he really wanted to name Senator Joe Lieberman as his running mate, but that option was a political impossibility that would have provoked an open revolt at the convention. Karl Rove tried to manipulate McCain into choosing Mitt Romney, endorsed by almost all members of the Bush family (except the president who had to remain above the fray). Rove organized a campaign against Lieberman and other potential choices. There could be little doubt that Rove was doing Bush’s bidding. But McCain, resentful of Rove’s maneuvering, outflanked him with Palin.

And in the process, given that La Palin has arrived with more baggage than the Lost and Found office at LaGuardia, it looks like in order to make his point, Old Man Crashy has managed to fly his campaign (and by extension the entire Republican party) into the power lines.  Again.

This is why John McCain fetched up at the bottom his class at the Naval Academy.  This is why he can’t be trusted to run this country.  He’s a goldbrick.  A flyboy, except he can’t fly.  He’s a self-proclaimed foreign policy “expert” who has to have Joe Lieberman run around behind him like a yappy little dog to clean up his mistakes.  He doesn’t do his homework, and yet he thinks he’s a genius.

The decision to lunge for Palin without doing the research, without having thought about, well, anything apparently, John McCain has shown us in one masterful stroke just how much of a self-centered moron he is.  He’s a compulsive gambler with “Easy Mark” stamped in big letters across his pasty white forehead.  He’s Bush squared.  Cubed, even.

If you look at the RNC website, by the way, you’ll notice that they’ve scrubbed the words, “Country First”.  At some point this evening, I suspect they’ll replace it with a photo of his face and the words, “No, me first!”

Those bitches are in total rout.

Is it so wrong that we should revel in their pain?