Authenticity

I just watched a News Hour segment of an interview with Cindy McCain by Judy Woodruff.


Mrs. McCain stayed on her talking points message, that the election is not about issues, but is about experience, authenticity and values of the candidates. It's the third of these so called qualifications, the values thing, which the GOPhers hope will embrace and energize the fundamentalist, far right base element of today's version of the Republican Party.



They have to do what they can to deflect the attention of the voters from the economy which is causing voters grief, the wars of choice which have taken the lives of countless people, the health care unaffordability for countless Americans, for starters.



Senator McCain wants us to belief that he's one of us, the patriotic American, who sacrificed for all of us, and who paid for that in his POW torture. That was long ago, and however we should honor him his time in captivity, he has rebounded to be a wealthy old man who is being kept by a wealthy, sexy blond who inherited millions from her family's beer distribution business.



I like beer. I don't find fault with those who make money in the sale of it.



But don't tell me and don't believe, that he, she and they are more down earth, patriotic, American story examples than Barack and Michele, Joe and Jill.


The spin, the propaganda of today's Republican Party is far removed from the approach of the Republican Party with which my mother and dad identified years ago.

Being thought of as a Republican was good in my early world. Conservative actually meant being careful, as in look before you leap, take care of your own, be careful with your money, don't spend on needs beyond what you can pay for. The exceptions included assuming a mortgage to finance the American Dream of one's own home. The lender and the borrower worked out the payment schedule which the payer could make, and which the lender could accept for a reasonable profit.


It was not a perfect world, but it worked. Some people had much more money than others, a reality of life, but they found a way to work it out for their mutual benefit.


When you think about for whom you will vote in November, please ask yourself who is the more responsible for violating the social compact, those who have the financial leverage, or those who relied on them to use it responsibly, carefully.

Conservative used to be admired as a virtue, but now is associated with those who claim to be inspired and motivated by their version of God to punish the Infidel, those who reject the scriptures of the Bible and or the Koran as literal truths.

These people are known as Fundamentalists, whether Christian, Jews or Muslims. They have in common a belief that their scriptures are actually the literal word of God, and that the fact that human beings wrote them down is not a problem since they believe that they were inpired by God to write them down in a kind of automatic writing which God initiated and energized.





Leanderthal, Lighthouse Keeper