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# Walking contradiction
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/walking-contradiction/
- Published: 2008-09-12T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-25T01:00:01.000Z
- Author: Jack Neworth
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

THE DODGERS ARE IN FIRST PLACE AND the Angels have clinched their division. (Freeway Series?) Meanwhile it’s seven years since 9/11 and Bush’s threat to Bin Laden “dead or alive.” McCain swears he knows how to catch Bin Laden. You’d think he’d have told Bush the secret.

Some say John McCain is “Bush on steroids.”He wants to give $4 billion in tax cuts to the oil companies, stay in Iraq 100 years and, sang “Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.” Given McCain’s explosive temper, that’s scary.

Also scary,unemployment is at 6.1 percent. More homes have been foreclosed than at any time since the Great Depression. Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae will be the biggest corporate bailout in history. All thanks to W. At least Hoover didn’t take us into a bogus war.

And yet my Republican readers insist I stop Bush bashing. They probably hounded the Clintons for eight years and thought oral sex in the White House was the crime of the century.

Fact: A Republican president hasn’t balanced a budget since 1968 and Bush turned record surpluses into record deficits. And yet McCain asks us to believe he’ll get ride of waste. He forgets that four times he cited, among the worst abusers of pork, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

McCain voted with Bush 90 percent of the time and still backs Bush’s privatization of Social Security. The two are so indistinguishable that former Homeland Secretary Tom Ridge mistakenly referred to John McCain as John Bush. To avoid confusion I say “McBush.”

Want a laugh? Type into your Internet browser “Stewart Slams Rove.” It’s a “Daily Show”clip of Karl Rove praising Sarah’s experience as mayor of Wasilla, Ala., population 9,000, by saying it’s the second largest city in Alaska. Except it’s the fifth largest.

In other footage, Rove belittles Tim Kaine’s mayoral experience because Richmond, Va. is so small, population 200,000\. Cuckoo. Rove’s, O’Reilly’s, and Dick Morris’ hypocrisy is shameless (No brain, no shame). It’s also hilarious to see skewered.

I discovered a right-wing Web site that named who’s to blame for Bristol Palin’s out of wedlock, teenage pregnancy. Not boyfriend Levi Johnston, a.k.a. “Baby Daddy.” And not Bristol or Sarah Palin. It was Hillary Clinton’s fault! Isn’t it always?

According to the Web site, “Hillary taught women they could do whatever they want with their bodies.” And they’re serious. Not so serious, what do you call a parent who only teaches their children abstinence? A grandparent!

McCain recently called grandparent-to-be Sarah Palin his “soulmate.” I bet Cindy was thrilled.Whatever you call her,she’s all over the Internet, including giving her sons unusual names. Track was because of Sarah’s “love of running.” So was Trig because of her love of trigonometry?

Sarah’s pastor is also controversial. He said anyone who voted for Kerry probably wouldn’t get into heaven. Evidently, God is a Republican. Sarah believes God wants the Alaskan pipeline and calls the shots in Iraq. Here I thought it was Gen. Patreus.

Everywhere there are photos of Sarah “Barracuda” (Her high school nickname). Her in a bikini, and holding a rifle, is fake. But the one in a leather mini-skirt, stiletto heels, and a satin blouse provocatively unbuttoned, is real. Real hot, that is. I thought for a second I was at “Governors Gone Wild.”

Another photo is of Sarah hunting. With her daughter by her side, she’s kneeling over the bloody caribou she just shot (a caribou is a reindeer, so Merry Christmas, everyone). Then again, maybe the caribou had it coming?

That caribou had a better chance than Cheney’s quail, which were fenced in, and had their wings clipped. There’s a manly sport, shooting tiny birds that can’t fly. Sarah has a bear’s head over her fireplace. Clearly any bear that breaks into the Palin household does so at their own peril.

The polarizing Palin is also an extremist. She’s against all abortions, even for rape, incest or the life of the mother; against contraception and sex education; (poor Bristol) wants creationism in the schools; and doesn’t believe in evolution (“A moose is too dorky to have evolved”). As for the “bridge to nowhere,” she was for it (“Don’t stop progress”) before she was against it (But still kept $27 million — Sarah loves her pork).

When Sarah became mayor, Wasilla had zero debt. When she left it was $22 million in the hole. She raised taxes as mayor and governor and billed the state for $17,000 of per diem for time spent at home. Creative accounting.

Meanwhile,the guy who,in 2000,destroyed McCain in South Carolina with “black baby” and “Cindy’s drug addiction” now works for McCain. That’s integrity.

One thing’s clear. If you liked Bush and Cheney, you’ve got to love McCain and Palin. Hey, did I mention the Dodgers were in first place?

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 12, 2008.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/091208.pdf?ref=smdp.com)