Last week was the Republicans’ turn – they had their convention on national television, and put themselves on display for all the world to see. We, the world audience, were invited to watch them as they presented their ideas and plans for guiding this wonderful nation, the next four years. With that in mind, your faithful writer will ask you a few questions; rhetorical in nature, they cannot be answered directly. However, you can answer them to yourselves and, based upon those answers, you should feel a) so much better about our nation’s future; b) so much worse about our nation’s future; or c) sick to your stomach about the prospect of having a new George Bush in the White House for four more years. Start answering some questions, if you please …

Have we heard anything about the economy, or how they’re going to fix it? Have they even acknowledged that their party has run the economy into the ground over the past seven years, being in the White House and having control of both houses of Congress?

(Hint) No; not a word.

Have we heard anything about how much the War in Iraq has cost us - every day - in terms of money, or in terms of lives lost? Have they admitted that they sent our people to fight a war by lying to the people to get them to agree to send our military there?

No; not a word.

Have we heard anything about how the Republicans haven’t told us anything about details of their plans for the country, should they (God forbid) win the White house for the next four years?

No; not a word.

Because they haven’t a clue what they will do. After all, they have ruined things, they can’t possibly figure out how to make things right again.

The Republicans have taken the longest period of peace and prosperity in modern times – the Clinton Presidency – and turned it into the largest deficit in the history of this country, along with the worst period of war – undeclared and unwarranted, and generated by lies they created and blamed upon the British. They invaded Iraq and had no idea how to get out of there. Even the president’s father said not to invade, and he said especially not to do so, if they don’t have an exit strategy … which they still haven’t been able to devise.

What we have heard, is lots of lies, misdirection, fear mongering, and negativity about the Democratic Party. Only by telling the Big Lies, as did a certain European Party before World War Two, will the Republicans have a chance of stealing another election.

In spite of what we have heard, we still have not gotten a single idea, during the entire Republican convention, about the economy and how to fix what has been destroyed by Bush-McCain policies.



What we have seen is that John McCain's campaign has decided that desperate lies and personal attacks -- on Barack Obama and Joe Biden and you, folks -- are the only way they can earn a third term for the Bush policies that McCain has supported more than 90 percent of the time. I believe that the number is closer to 95% of the time, but what’s 5% among the desperate voters of this great nation, who are looking to the President to fix the economy?

Rather than admit the truth, that you don’t have an idea how to govern, how to fix what you broke, you spend your time on national television by calling the opposition names, by using the Big Lies to try and convince the voting public that the other party is at fault.

So far, we have not heard one single word about how the McSame Party will fix what they broke; only what they can lay at the feet of the Democratic Party, and say was their fault.

Before John McCain accepted the Republican nomination on Thursday, his campaign had to spend every last dollar of primary funds they'd raked in from Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs.

Just the other day, they aired a new negative ad in 14 swing states . His campaign manager even admitted that all McCain has to rely on is attacks, saying that for them, "This election is not about issues."

John McCain is offering a third term of the disastrous Bush agenda, so it's no wonder his campaign would choose to focus on attacks instead of issues.

Well, this time, the American voting Public is not going to be fooled again. This time, we are not going to allow the Big Liars to win an election by cheating and lying about who and what they are. That is simple: who and what - a bunch of bullies and liars who haven’t got a clue about how to run a government with honesty and integrity.

It really is a simple choice; more than ever, we must look at this as Truth versus Consequences. The Republicans’ leaders are the people who ran the United States Government into the ground; we can and must eliminate that group’s control over Washington.