The Republican message - "Never mind what we've been saying for months about foreign policy experience. Sarah Palin is a great choice!" - is a bad omen for the future of America if McCain wins the election. It will mean four more years of those in charge willfully putting the interests of a party leader over the interests of the country.
On September 11, a dangerously incompetent president sat and stared at a children's book for seven long minutes while our nation was under attack. He then spent the rest of the day in hiding, while Dick Cheney made the decisions that needed to be made and the rest of us sat in disbelief and horror, waiting for our president to rally us.
And Republicans went on TV and wrote their columns saying "Thank God George Bush is in the White House and not Al Gore." Even though their political leader had proven himself manifestly unprepared for the job, they put his interests over the interests of the country. They attacked anyone who pointed out that the emperor had no clothes.
What we saw in those days and weeks after 9/11 became standard operating procedure throughout the Bush presidency. For the past eight years, the Republican Party has one time after another placed loyalty to their political leader over loyalty to the Constitution and the rule of law. When their leader claimed the right to ignore laws even as he signed them, they saluted and obeyed. When their leader claimed the right to torture prisoners using the same tactics we learned from our enemies, they saluted and obeyed. When their leader claimed he could toss you in a dungeon for the rest of your life with no trial and no lawyer, they saluted and obeyed. They received the party talking points, then obediently spouted the party line.
In Sarah Palin, we now have the real possibility of an even more dangerously unqualified person than George Bush leading our nation. And the Republicans who spent months calling Barack Obama dangerously unqualified are now crowing about John McCain's new running mate.
Salute and obey. It may be McCain instead of Bush putting our nation at risk, but it's the same dangerous Republican Party.
The events of the past two days have made it all the more clear why our nation desperately needs to remove the Republican Party from power.
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