Sirened

This has been a painful few days watching the nazi republican party convention.

The republican platform for change said it all in who their keynote speaker was. Rudy ‘9/11′ Giuliani. A man who has profited off that horrific day with book sales and based his entire presidential bid on scaring Americans into voting for him.

Fortunately Giuliani’s scare tactics didn’t work for his own political gain, even with republicans. It seemed the more people saw of Giuliani the more they disliked him. That’s why he retreated to my old home state of Florida, camped out and ran outrageous fear mongering ads. Then managed to finish 3rd in that state, dropping out with a grand total of 0 delegates.

This tired old message by republicans didn’t work in 2006 and it didn’t work for Giuliani. And it shouldn’t work for the McCain/Palin ticket in the general election. It is not un-patriotic to not always stand on your governments side, quite the contrary. “Country First” means that you put your homeland, common sense and principles before your government.

The Nazi party rallied Germans around extreme nationalism, and they made them scared of the growing power of Jews in their communities. It was for these reasons that they were able to unite the majority of their people into unjustified wars and to commit horrific atrocities against humanity.

The neo-conservatives used these same tactics to take us into Iraq and they will do the same to take us into Iran. McCain used to be a “maverick” but he is clearly no maverick these days. If elected, he will continue the backward policies of Bush/Cheney that have led the USA into economic disaster and international embarrassment. So congratulations John McCain, tonight is your night to take the helm of the new American Nazi party.

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