People who depend on campaign ads for information about their candidates are not exactly taking their civic responsibility seriously anyway. But ads do usually have a meta-message, and McCain’s ads tell me, again and again, that he’s a POW, that he’s maverick-y (though I’m not sure why or how), and that he has no actual new ideas except “let’s play the association game and see if that works since nothing else does.” I’d love to know specifically about his economic ideas for helping us out of this mess. I know he has lots of ‘em, since this week we’re about to hear his third plan–or is it his fourth?– for rescuing the economy. I just don’t know which one is supposed to be the one he’ll stick with.
I do hope McCain and Palin keep hammering on Ayers being BFF with Obama, and throw in a little Rev. Wright for good measure, since that tactic is working so well. Maybe then we’ll start hearing a lot more about Palin’s connections with the AIP, and the Keating scandal, and maybe since we’re on board the Wayback Machine, his confessions as a POW and his multiple plane crashes and his affair while married. I don’t actually give a crap about any of that, but that’s how the game is played.
And we do know the MSM controls everything, what with that Republican guy running the country for the past eight years and being such a huge success at it. (What was his name again? It’s been so long since we’ve heard from him, I forget.)
I suppose McCain could do something idiotic like tell us some specific, detailed plans for dealing with the massive challenges ahead, but apparently the attack team he hired that trashed his campaign in 2000 doesn’t roll that way. So I look everywhere for information, including places like this. Alas, none to be found here either, just more frothing and gnashing of teeth.
Now, back to those entertaining YouTube videos of the Alaska Independent Party….those are some wild and crazy guys! No wonder Sarah and Todd like them so much.
