John McCain may not "be George W. Bush," but Sarah Palin might be.
McCain insists that he's not more of the same packaged differently, even copping to voting with Bush "90 % of the time." (How much of a maverick can you be when you toe the party line all but ten percent of the time?) McCain's been pushing to show us how different things will be on his watch, and then he goes and picks Sarah Palin as a running mate. Hmmm.
Bush is an evangelical, end-times Christian who believes God talks to him sometimes. Cheney has ties to Halliburton, which is why they got so many juicy contracts at the beginning of Gulf War II. Both men use "executive privilege" and "national security" to obscure their dealings, hiding the machinery of manipulation behind a cloak of secrecy, refusing to cooperate with anyone who goes digging into what they've done.
But you know, Sarah's supposed to be really different, a maverick, a fresh-faced reformer, someone you could get to know, someone who could live on your block so long it's a block of ice in goddamn remote Alaska. But who is she really? She seems to think it's really important that we meet the real Barack Obama, so let's us put on our bullshit hip-waders and meet the real Sarah Palin.
Crazy Religion? Check: There's a couple of YouTube videos floating around that show her talking about Alaska being the refuge during the Last Days & showing her having prayers said over her to make her a better spiritual warrior. She also gets "protection from witchcraft" from a guy who once ran a witch out of a Kenyan village, which probably means he beat up a midwife or something. She's an Assembly of God Pentacostal. Think people who wave their hands around and fall out while they worship are a bit strange? Ha. Just when you thought Jeremiah Wright was as crazy as holy men would get during this campaign.
Cronyism? Check, Check! The Associated Press released the results of their own digging into Sarah's pipeline she's so damn proud of. What did they find? That Sarah's team created a bidding contract that only one bidder, TransCanada, could possibly win, that she ignored the companies who actually have a right to the gas, that she mismanaged the project so that it may never be finished, and charged the multi-hundred of millions of dollars to the State of Alaska, when the company had originally talked about doing the whole thing for free! And why? To do a favor for a friend of a friend.
Delusions of Untouchability? Check, please. Yeah, she blocked the investigations, claiming privilege, into her abuse of power for as long as she could, (including launching her own investigation into herself - not nearly as sexy as it sounds) but ultimately, it was found that she did abuse her power, without strictly breaking the law.
Of course she did. 'Cause that's how Sarah rolls. She's got the full package, the one we're used to on our executive model Republicans these days: Arrogance, self-righteouness, a superiority complex, and an absolute conviction of her lock on capital "T" truth.
Don't believe a fucking word they say. They will absolutely take four more years of this shit if they can get it.