I've been waiting for McCain's convention bounce, and it arrived with this morning's poll numbers. I've long believed that staying at the top of the news cycle (free TV) is the secret to winning in this country. Give 'em air time, any air time and it'll show in the polls.
It seems to me, listening to the republicans' convention last week and watching their ads on television, that they've raised to high art the device of saying one thing and doing another. It has to be projection. No, not the kind that pollsters do, but psychological projection. Nothing else makes sense. How else in the world can the McCain campaign really be running ads proclaiming that if Obama is elected, those "tax and spend" democrats will run up big deficits? Huh? I've been thinking it's nefarious and they really believe that voters cannot count, or are so blind they cannot see that, at least for the last couple of decades, it's been democrats who've brought spending under control and republicans who've gone on hysterical spending sprees. Projection would explain it though, making it some colossal form of institutional denial, organizational mental illness, defined by Wikipedia:
According to Sigmund Freud, projection is a psychological defense mechanism whereby one "projects" one's own undesirable thoughts, motivations, desires and feelings onto someone else. It is a common process that every person uses to some degree. To understand the process, consider a person in a couple who has thoughts of infidelity. Instead of dealing with these undesirable thoughts consciously, he or she subconsciously projects these feelings onto the other person, and begins to think that the other has thoughts of infidelity and may be having an affair. In this sense, projection is related to denial...like all defense mechanisms, providing a function whereby truth about a part of themselves that may otherwise be unacceptable is shielded.
Well that explains it doesn't it? They're not stupid, and maybe they're not the lying thieves I've been thinking they were for all these years. They're just in denial, projecting, in order to avoid coming face to face with, well, themselves. Poor things. I've had a couple of master projectors in my life and I'm here to say they really don't know that they're doing it, and that being on the receiving end of projection makes you think you're the one losing your mind. Isn't that exactly the way it feels to try to talk to a republican who's afraid of those "tax and spend" dems, when it's their candidate whose solution to the health care crisis is to tax employer-provided health care benefits? ANOTHER HUH?
We must find a way to help them, find some kind of cure for this mass mental illness before we're doomed to another four years of government emptying the treasury and invading our personal lives. But let's try to get the language right, call it what it is, because it has changed. This is no longer my father's republican party. The New Republican Party stands for deficit spending, bigger government (that gets way more all up in our lives), diminishing personal liberty, loss of stature internationally, depleted military reserves and the loss of national safety that comes from all of the above. As the wealthy get wealthier the numbers of poor increase. As the numbers living in poverty increase, so does crime. As crime increases, our safety decreases.
Want more of the same? Then vote for McCain. As for the whole lying thieves thing, we'll let's just say they're a little confused. Want to hear it in their own words? Click here.
Peace, out, y'all.
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