The Republican party operates on the principal that the American electorate is composed of bovine idiots who will accept any candidate that appeals to their prejudices and believe any lie that is enclosed in the ideological parentheses of god and anti-liberalsim. So far, they appear to be right, despite the fact that for any non-plutocrat to vote Republican, is like the chickens in the hen house voting for the fox.

This election is a particularly virulent example of the success of this strategy. We have a sitting president who obtained the post under questionable circumstances, who's military record is little more than that of a legally sanctioned draft dodger - yet who has the gall to attack the record of a decorated veteran, who took our country into a demented war for the most venal of motives and, now that even his fragile evidentiary justification has been totally discredited, continues to squander the lives of our military for the sake of his own ego and the monetary gain of his cronies.

He and his cohorts have no shame. And why should they, since half the electorate swallows this bilge like nectar and, like a hoarde of Archie Bunkers, responds to reasonable rebuttal of their position with an ever escalating chorus of God Bless America and Hail To The Chief.

If there is any truth to the maxim that, by and large, people get the government they deserve, then we americans have surely lost the right to the blessing of our democracy.

- posted by Martin Eagle @ 4:51 AM