Republicans like John McCain keep claiming that this hurricane is a time when they are going to put country first. They're going to take off their Republican hats and put on their American hats.
Mike Madden from Salon has a good question for them then.
If they didn't have on their American hats before, what hats were they wearing exactly?
Finally, Cindy McCain walked onstage Monday night in a yellow dress that looked like a rain slicker, to something of a hero's welcome from the crowd. (Her daughters, Meghan and Bridget, and her mother-in-law, Roberta McCain, watched from the VIP box just off the floor.) "As John has been saying for the last several days," McCain said, "this is a time when we take off our Republican hats and put on our American hats." It's an odd line for a party that claims to have the market cornered on patriotism; if they're not Americans when they're being Republicans, what are they?
First off, rain slicker? Is that how Cindy shows solidarity? Through fashion?
That looks more like patronizing mockery from a silverspoonfed trust fund baby who wears ridiculously expensive banana peel looking crap to me.
But really, Mike hit the nail on the head.
Because this really is how Republicans think.
They're taking off their Republican hats and putting on their American ones.
Because in the end, Republican politicians only believe in America on special occasions. It's a luxury, not a prerequisite. So they torture. They go to war on lies. They out CIA agents.
If they aren't Americans when they're being Republicans, then what are they?
Answer: Corporate fascists. Jet set internationalists sold out to oil companies, the war industry, and in general the top 1% of the global ownership society. These Republicans aren't Americans most of the time. They're Russians. Then they're Saudis. Then they're Georgians. Then they're Germans. Whatever makes them money. Never country first. They've got personal jets. They go where they want. They live where they want. They've got 8 houses for chrissake.
Being an American is a luxury for Republicans like John and Cindy McCain. These days, it's just a hat you wear during a hurricane when you're at a party with hookers and blow in your snazzy yellow slicker.
Oh, and here's John McCain's American hat. He wears it at all the right parties, but never to work... where integrity actually might count.
