Wow, lipstickgate sure has legs. It’s good we’re focusing on things that matter.
For the record, and after careful study, I have determined that pigs wearing lipstick are, in fact, still pigs. The only question that remains is, why anyone would claim otherwise?
Don’t be surprised if Obama decides to make this phrase the centerpiece of his campaign. Is that a good idea for him? I have no idea. It could probably be spun out in such a way so as to work to his advantage. But let’s hope that doesn’t happen, because it would be exceedingly tedious, even if the phrase is applicable.
The political season is always good for some entertainment, that’s for sure, made all the more entertaining by the fact that an upstart black man with no experience and open marxist and terrorist pedigree is tied in most opinion polls with the white establishment candidate. Of course no one is interested in race anymore, and the last thing one wants to be accused of is playing the race or gender card or even mentioning having any particular advantage “in spades”, but apparently conventional wisdom has it that the black man should handily defeat the white man simply because he is the black man; that because the black man is only tied with the white man two months before the election this is obviously a great victory-in-the making for the white man. There are others who say that the black man isn’t really black, which explains why he is not beating up on the white man more, and is only tied with the white man two months before the election, whatever that means. It is said that a blacker, more authentic black man would be far in the lead, but that this particular black man, who is not actually black but is or is not considered black based on who happens to be talking at any given point, is handicapped by his pathetic level of blackness and is therefore only tied with the strong and virtuous white candidate and his trusted pit bull of an assistant. You would think however that given the huge advantage being black at any level confers, that even the pathetically low black racial percentage of the black candidate would be able to easily overcome the strong and virtuous white candidate, who has a very long record and has run for the presidency numerous times.
This is all wonderfully entertain indeed, and a nice distraction from the fact that the real winner in this election will probably be the party that loses. Think of all the blame that can be heaped on the Democrats if they win. They can be saddled with blame for the financial crisis, melt-down of the dollar, stagflation, terrorism, 9/11, loss of biotech jobs due to stem cell policy, and their vicious slurs against farm animals wearing cosmetic products. And the beauty of this is that it can all be done before the election! Yes, the future Democrat administration can be blamed in advance for creating present problems. It’s a simple trick of time travel which is no problem if you believe. Whereas if the Republicans win, they have nowhere to go really, and the Democrats will be able to sit back and say “remember what we said about pigs in lipstick?” That is unless you believe that somehow a new Republican administration is going to solve the problems it will inherit from the previous Republican administration. As I understand it this will happen by continuing current policies on the international front, and by vetoing most spending bills that come across the President’s desk, and letting the world know the names of the people who put spending proposals into bills seemingly unrelated to the main thrust of the bill, to be determined by the judgement of the president. This will cause the entire political establishment to cease and desist its current form of appropriations, because the president will shame anyone who has the nerve to bundle spending appropriations together into large bills. No, the president needs to go over each item carefully, with the proverbial fine-toothed comb, and Congress needs to submit tens of thousands of spending appropriations to do the nation’s business. Yes, this sounds like a great plan. “You will know their names!”
It’s going to be entertaining, folks.
