Republican Hypocrisy.
I deliberately left Levi Johnston and the young Bristol Palin out of anything I had to say this morning about Sarah Palin's address.
However, there really is a terrible hypocrisy in the Republican charge that we are politicising a family matter - pointing out that teaching "abstinence only" doesn't work and that Palin's family is the living proof - and then the Republicans sitting them centre stage as if they are Love's Young Dream.
This has got to be the most public shotgun wedding in history. Levi Johnston's on record as saying that he doesn't want kids but McCain greeted the couple at the airport as if it was Prince Charles with the young pregnant Diana. The Republicans obviously asked the rest of us to leave them alone so that they could exploit them all on their own. Perhaps they were worried about overexposure, because they certainly don't give two hoots about their privacy.
And, while I'm on the subject of Republican hypocrisy, McCain's due to make his speech in a few hours. Karl Rove tells us that McCain is terribly reticent about talking about his days as a POW.
When it comes to choosing a president, the American people want to know more about a candidate than policy positions. They want to know about character, the values ingrained in his heart. For Mr. McCain, that means they will want to know more about him personally than he has been willing to reveal.Will McCain, that deeply private wall flower, manage to overcome his chronic shyness about the Hanoi Hilton which he never ever mentions and please at least hint at what it was like to be a POW? The nation demands it!
Rove must think the rest of us live on the bloody moon.
I'll be counting tonight how many references the shy one makes to Vietnam and sacrifice.
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