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[Gatsby]

If someone had submitted a screenplay to Hollywood a couple of years ago of the events unfolding before us today, no one in their right mind would have bought it.

Except, perhaps, Robert Altman. His movie "Nashville" had a subplot about a presidential candidate tied into the Southern religious conservatives that wasn't so far from what's been happening. Unfortunately, Altman died in 2006.

The only way to keep your sanity, knowing that a presidential candidate is capable of such insanely poor judgment, to put it kindly, and the public is capable of accepting and even commending this behavior, is to view it as a comedy. I see Woody Allen starring as John McCain, with Diane Keaton as Sarah Palin. Cue the Dixieland soundtrack, a la "Sleeper."

It is astonishing what Republicans can wrap their hearts and minds around, if done by a Republican candidate. Do you know where Barry Goldwater planned to take his vacation, immediately after winning the Republican nomination? At Berchtesgaden. This was in 1964, less than 20 years after the former occupant vacated the premises, Adolf Hitler. But Goldwater was still a good Republican, in the eyes of conservatives. Perhaps, but one with astonishingly poor political judgment.

Whether you like McCain, or liked him, or not, it is becoming obvious he has breathtakingly bad judgment. World class. The only one who can top McCain for bad judgment is his running mate, Sarah "God, give me money, give me power" Palin.

So, what happens now for the Republican Party?

Everyone has to drink the Kool Aid. Everyone. And they just have to pray it isn't spiked. If it is, they're all dead in November.

But will they drink the Kool Aid? We've got all the House seats up for election, of course, and one third of the Senate. Will the Republicans running be willing to endorse McCain? Or will they find it prudent to distance themselves? As in: McCain? Never heard of the guy.

My guess is you are going to see more Republicans doing a Chuck Hagel, and saying flat out, Sarah Palin is not qualified to be President. That's a relatively nice way of saying they are not supporting McCain.

I mean, look, you've got a Republican veep candidate who practices Pentecostol voodoo, has committed adultery, has a daughter in high school who got pregnant out of wedlock, who doesn't believe in evolution or global warming or birth control, not to mention abortion, and presumably believes the Earth is around 5,000 years old. Oh, and she is a habitual liar. Republicans can be pretty flexible, but can they really swallow all of this in November?

Plus, you've got a Republican president who's put a gun to America's head and threatened to pull the trigger unless we give him $700 BILLION dollars.

Al Qaeda is run by mere amateurs. If terrorists had hijacked a plane and demanded $700 billion or they would blow up the plane, what we have done? Laughed.

While we were busy looking for the pea in the Al Qaeda shell game, the Bush administration was busy picking our pocket. First, the pea was in America, then it was in Afghanistan, then it was in Iraq, and Iran and then North Korea, and now Iraq again, but maybe Iran. The real danger, folks, was and is in the White House. Al Quada never could have caused us the more than a trillion dollars in destruction that the Bush has blown on oil-rich Iraq and costly bail outs of Bush's buddies.

If you had frozen someone cyrogenically in 1968, and woken them 40 years later in 2008, surely they would think that everyone in the world had gone completely mad.

Yet, because we have seen the changes occur incrementally, all this seems relatively normal to most of us.

But not to me.

My head is going to explode.

Wake me up when it's over. If McCain loses.

If he wins, don't wake me until the movie comes out. Preferably, directed by Woody Allen.

[Milwaukiedave]

Diane Keaton as Sarah Palin?

Now on that I'll disagree with you.

[Big_Bird]

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