Posted by
INTHENOW on Thursday, September 11, 2008 5:58:39 AM
I’m very disappointed with the McCain campaign’s attempt to morph Obama’s now infamous “lipstick” statement. If you listen to the comment carefully in its full context, he was not implying or anyway casting dispersions on Palin. He was obviously trying to tie McCain’s policies with Bush’s. Any rational person cannot honestly believe otherwise.
By using this phrase twisting tactic, the Republican Party has descended to the sewer tactics of the opposition and missed a golden opportunity to use the analogy against Obama in its intended meaning.
If you’re looking for lipstick on a pig there are plenty of examples. Just take a look at Obama’s attempts to disguise (apply lipstick, mascara, and lots of blush) himself with his ultra left past; attempts to distance himself from his voting record on abortion, public education, and gun control; efforts to sever relations with Ayers and Wright; inability to admit mistakes on the surge and his previous support for surrender. TH columnist Ken Blackwell provides a good read on the subject:
http://townhall.com/columnists/KenBlackwell/2008/09/11/words_obama_will_regret?page=full&comments=true
The McCain campaign could have easily used that same metaphor to describe Obama’s ideas by highlighting the fact that his proposals for “change” are similar to the failed polices of the Carter administration. But by suggesting that the metaphor was a personal attack on Palin is an affront to my intelligence and a lost opportunity.
Unfortunately by distorting the true meaning of Obama’s words, McCain has ceded the high ground and detracted from one of the most striking differences separating them…character.