And we thought it couldn't get any worse than Bush & Cheney....

CHARACTER COUNTS!  We certainly found out for ourselves how Bush and Cheney would govern -- and were given dire warnings in 2000 and 2004 about their character by the lies they threw out against those who opposed them (including McCain). Now McCain, who amazingly still calls himself a "straight talker," is doing the same thing.  This, of course, is what you would expect, with "Turd Blossom" Karl Rove running this Republican campaign in exactly the same way he ran both Bush/Cheney campaigns. 

It tells a lot about McCain's true character that he would employ for his own campaign the man who conjured up so many down-and-dirty lies about him in the 2000 primary. Rove put out the "rumor" that McCain had fathered a black child -- and that his mind had been damaged by the years in prison, making him unable to govern a country (which I am beginning to believe now is actually true).  Of course, Rove touted Bush and Cheney as perfect candidates -- and we are now going to have to clean up the debacle of their eight long years of so-called "leadership."  But not if McCain/Palin are selected!  The reason I say Selected is that we can't forget the vote fraud that put Bush/Cheney into office both times and is no doubt in the works again by the Machievellian Republicans.  McCain/Palin won't be cleaning up anything -- they will just be ramping up the policies of Bush/Cheney, making things even worse than they are now. 

BLIZZARD OF LIES
by Paul Krugman
Read entire article at: http://www.truthout.org/article/blizzard-lies

EXCERPT: ...how a politician campaigns tells you a lot about how he or she would govern.

    I'm not talking about the theory, often advanced as a defense of horse-race political reporting, that the skills needed to run a winning campaign are the same as those needed to run the country. The contrast between the Bush political team's ruthless effectiveness and the heckuva job done by the Bush administration is living, breathing, bumbling, and, in the case of the emerging Interior Department scandal, coke-snorting and bed-hopping proof to the contrary.

    I'm talking, instead, about the relationship between the character of a campaign and that of the administration that follows. Thus, the deceptive and dishonest 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign provided an all-too-revealing preview of things to come. In fact, my early suspicion that we were being misled about the threat from Iraq came from the way the political tactics being used to sell the war resembled the tactics that had earlier been used to sell the Bush tax cuts.

    And now the team that hopes to form the next administration is running a campaign that makes Bush-Cheney 2000 look like something out of a civics class. What does that say about how that team would run the country?

    What it says, I'd argue, is that the Obama campaign is wrong to suggest that a McCain-Palin administration would just be a continuation of Bush-Cheney. If the way John McCain and Sarah Palin are campaigning is any indication, it would be much, much worse.