And voters have finally gotten fed all the way up with candidates and politicians who talk the talk and actually do the opposite of walking the walk.

In other words - just like in good literature - you don't tell people about the story - you show them -

Rachel Maddow was talking about this in regard to something else entirely, but it's one of those things that is true and thus true in every situation.

Telling people you are going to get rid of corruption while acting corrupt isn't working. You either are or aren't and you can't tell people they have to believe something when they're looking at the truth.

Incompetent or brazen? I say all of the above.

Not to mention McCain certainly abused his power in the Keating Five dealings.

They are soulmates...

I'm voting brazen. These people are the masters of up is down doublespeak, not to mention projection.

Well, I think people are on to Ms. Sarah. She claims to be an outsider but her actions ("Do as I say, not as I do") don't match the rhetoric.

Keillor had a great bit on her recently, for those of you who haven't seen, on how folks are starting to see through her Caribou Barbie act:

It was dishonest, cynical men who put forward a clueless young woman for national office, hoping to juice up the ticket, hoping she could skate through two months of chaperoned campaigning, but the truth emerges: The lady is talking freely about matters she has never thought about. The American people have an ear for B.S. They can tell when someone’s mouth is moving and the clutch is not engaged. When she said, “One thing that Americans do at this time, also, though, is let’s commit ourselves just every day, American people, Joe Six-Pack, hockey moms across the nation, I think we need to band together and say never again. Never will we be exploited and taken advantage of again by those who are managing our money and loaning us these dollars,” people smelled gas.

Some Republicans adore her because they are pranksters at heart and love the consternation of grown-ups. The ne’er-do-well son of the old Republican family as president, the idea that you increase government revenue by cutting taxes, the idea that you cut social services and thereby drive the needy into the middle class, the idea that you overthrow a dictator with a show of force and achieve democracy at no cost to yourself — one stink bomb after another, and now Gov. Palin.

She is a chatty sportscaster who lacks the guile to conceal her vacuity, and she was Mr. McCain’s first major decision as nominee. This troubles independent voters, and now she is a major drag on his candidacy. She will get a nice book deal from Regnery and a new career making personal appearances for 40 grand a pop, and she’ll become a trivia question, “What politician claimed foreign-policy expertise based on being able to see Russia from her house?” And the rest of us will have to pull ourselves out of the swamp of Republican economics.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2008/10/08/palin/

Later Palin apologized for misspeaking. She said she meant "augment the abuse of power," not "end."

I agree with "brazen" and "incompetent" and would add "naive" and "desperate" to the mix. Really the list could be endless, like McCain's ads, endlessly negative.

Vote Cognitive/Dissonance '08!

Survey USA has Obama up by 8 in Missouri.

Thank goodness McCain has a new speech today or he'd be in big trouble.

There's something called a pathological liar, a person who continually lies and doesn't realize he's lying. There must be something called a pathologically lying politician, a person who continually lies for political gain, is incapable of discerning the lie from the truth, and even if he were he'd keep the lie if it got him votes.

There's something called a pathological liar, a person who continually lies and doesn't realize he's lying. There must be something called a pathologically lying politician, a person who continually lies for political gain, is incapable of discerning the lie from the truth, and even if he were he'd keep the lie if it got him votes.

So it takes a few days for the McCain campaign talking points to catch up. We know there is a lead time of at least 4 days to change all talking points.

See: bridge to nowhere, bill ayers hate talk, abuse of powers, change, for more regulations, fundamentals are strong, etc.

The origin of this kind of denial is from the people who were emotionally invested in Bush and now they must suppress and deny the shame at enabling the trashing of the country on several levels. Palin represents redemption for them, a chance to wipe the slate clean and pretend that none of that happened and that includes her own foul acts.

Good luck convincing the non-wingnut majority that the last 8 years never happened.

I'm tellin' ya, this Sarah person is just like that sociopathic Florida woman, Casey Anthony. There's something really, really off and twisted about Ms. Palin.

Sarah Palin has a WASP trait that I dealt with with my WASP friends.They would always try to pin stuff on you that they did.
This one guy who stopped being my friend after the fight we got into arguing about something I cannot remember.He was so mad he swung a ball bat at my head.I ducked,he missed and he got even madder.He got me down and started to bang my head against the concrete walk.Somehow I got away,called a sadistic asshole and high-tailed it back across the street to my house.there i quickly forgot about it.
The next day I was in trouble for calling him a sadistic asshole.His Dad came over and was raising hell about my language.I told about the baseball bat,he swung at me,and him beating my head on the sidewalk.His Dad told me that Ihad banged his head first.My Dad at that point told him to leave.There were more harsh words and finally they left.My head was spinning,not because he had banged it on the sidewalk,but because these people were the epitome of poor sports,they lied all the time,and if you didn`t accept their lies they would bad mouth you to your friends.
Ever since then I have been leery of those kind of folks