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Nine words I never thought I’d say: “Paris Hilton’s running a good campaign for President.” Co-opting your opponent’s message is a time-honored strategy. Ever since Thomas Jefferson, living in a palace served by slaves, became the “man of the people” while running against the working-class John Adams, presidential candidates have gotten away with morphing into their opponents. In one fell swoop, Paris repeated Senator McSame’s latest energy policy while echoing the Messiah’s subliminal slogan, “Vote for me cause I’m HOT!” I bet these politicos will think twice before taking on a 27-year-old celebutante again. Her campaign appears sure-footed and better versed in real-world economics than a genuine socialist and me too.
At least here in our beloved Chesterfield, we’re having a real debate: should we continue to give builders whatever they want or should the come-in-ers shut the door behind them. If you look at Frick and Frack, we have the choice between Euro-Socialism or Euro-Socialism Lite. Either way, the America as we have known it is on the endangered species list.
Look at Bob Dole Jr.’s Cap-N-Trade legislation, supposedly a market-driven solution to man-made, carbon-based global warming. To begin with, you have to accept the premise that climate change is caused by man and not by (dare I say it) God, or, as our politically-correct leaders call Him, “nature.” Then we have to accept that somehow people and corporations will maneuver through the tortuous regulations providing endless bureaucrats endless opportunities to use their favorite color tape to strangle the golden goose economy. This is nothing more than carbon-offsets applied to everyone and everything.
All this from the same champion of government regulation who gave us McCain-Feingold, the First Amendment Killer who tried to ram McCain-Kennedy down our throats with an endless conveyor belt to citizenship, voting, and Social Security. If you exchange endless war for peace for move-the-war-next door and daily flip-flops on energy for daily flip-flops on energy, both of the big guys are global warming devotees who think it’s okay to wage windfall war against one industry while other industries many with higher profit margins get bail-outs. When they’re done killing the oil industry, do we bail them out?
Both are for legalization and open borders. I know Senator McSame says he’s heard the people and is now for shutting the border first while at the same time saying if Kennedy-McCain comes across his desk in the Oval Office, he’ll sign it. Wink, wink, nod, nod – think this might be short-hand for do it as soon as possible? Either of these two means the end of any pretension at maintaining a southern border, and as Ronald Reagan said, “A country without borders isn’t a country.”
Wait a minute! I’ve found a real difference between the gold-dust twins. One wants to tax everything that moves, and the other promises solemnly, “Read my lips” – no new taxes. Oh yeah, I’m gonna double-down on that one. At least it’s easy to know the talking points for tomorrow morning. Read the polls tonight. It’s also easy to know what they’ll do if elected. McMaverick will rule as a Republican in name only, reaching across the aisle to embrace every wacko bill Kennedy and company finds in the old USSR playbook. The Messiah will give the Faith-Based program to Reverend Wright, the Education Department to William Ayers, make Al Gore the Energy Czar and appoint Bill Clinton to the Supreme Court while bringing Chicago ethics to the White House with Bill “Bugsy” Daley as his Chief of Staff. To re-cap, choose between Euro-Socialism or Euro-Socialism Lite.
Back to Paris. At least she really is hot, and maybe she would implement an energy program that locates and exploits proven oil reserves while advancing alternative solutions for a sustainable future. I can just hear the well-paid consultants in the well-heeled political machines as they strive to fool all the people all the time as they quote one of my favorite characters, “You cursed brat. Look what you’ve done. I’m melting! Melting! Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness.”
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