Bizarro McCain

What an inane and quite frankly boring speech McCain gave last night. Seriously, it had all of the hallmarks of Saint John’s textbook delivery; lime green background – check, total lack of substance and voice modulation – check, acute overuse of the phrase “my friends” – check, out of touch, warmed-over conservative rhetoric – big time check, yet another rehash of his POW story but really folks, he doesn’t like to talk about it – Oh My God check, check, check. People, it was as painful to watch as it was silly and at times, completely at odds with reality, his Party, and his record.

In fact, this was not so much an Acceptance speech as it was a con job with high production values. So when McCain said,

“The constant partisan rancor that stops us from solving these problems isn't a cause, it's a symptom. It's what happens when people go to Washington to work for themselves and not you.

Again and again, I've worked with members of both parties to fix problems that need to be fixed. That's how I will govern as President. I will reach out my hand to anyone to help me get this country moving again.”

not only did it ring hollow, it was, once again, more bullshit. Pretty much every speech I have read or see at the GOP Convention was either an attempt to tear down Obama or scare the shit out of voters. It therefore strikes me as extremely disingenuous for Mr. Maverick to promulgate this nonsense that he is so willing work across the aisle while the surrogates that preceded him essentially spent their time talking shit about the Democrats. Furthermore, one cannot support Bush 90% of the time and be bipartisan – these are mutually exclusive terms.

When he said:

“I fight to restore the pride and principles of our party. We were elected to change Washington, and we let Washington change us. We lost the trust of the American people when some Republicans gave in to the temptations of corruption. We lost their trust when rather than reform government, both parties made it bigger. We lost their trust when instead of freeing ourselves from a dangerous dependence on foreign oil, both parties and Senator Obama passed another corporate welfare bill for oil companies. We lost their trust, when we valued our power over our principles.”

he is asking us to forget that his Party and his President have caused this mess, that he is a co-conspirator, and that his fingerprints are all over it. McCain will not run this race on his record, because is too busy running from it.

And when he said:

“And let me offer an advance warning to the old, big spending, do nothing, me first, country second Washington crowd: change is coming.”

He is asking us to believe the Washington Insider with 25 plus years in Congress is an agent of change. What he really meant was, elect me and expect more of the same.