Hypocracy-Gate

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ENOUGH!

I feel like the character from "Network" who tossed open his office window and shouted to the world below, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more!"

Republicans have played us as morons for way too long, and way to many us have accepted membership in their dysfunctional family. In rebutting this it's hard to know where to begin, but the hypocrisy and cynicism of choosing Sarah Palin to be McCain's replacement is as good a place to start as any.

Sarah was a member of the Assembly of God church, and now a non-denominational "Bible" church. Participants in these groups are spirit filled, emotionally predisposed, intellectually gullible, and driven by a faith that has more to do with prosperity than sacrifice, seeking forgiveness than taking responsibility, desire than suffering. I know this because I've done that/been there. It's an utterly irrational worldview that believes God is responsible and intimately involved in everything, until God is ascribed ownership of evil. At which point the omnipotent Divine becomes magically impotent, and a fallen, defeated angel named Lucifer takes over the show while God sits back waits for his fallen creation to repent (yet again) and return to abject devotion.

Is this the sort of mindset that the majority of Americans want in charge? It is the sort of individual that lives a life of delusion and one that allows hypocrisy to flourish, because there's always a way out of your lies and an imaginary foe to place the blame upon. A perfect example is this recent affair sussed out by the reporters at the National Enquirer (Between this and the John Edwards thing, I hope they win the next Pulitzer!)

And now excerpts and commentary stolen from another blog:

According to The NATIONAL ENQUIRER, three members of the man’s family, including one by sworn affidavit, have claimed that Palin engaged in an affair with husband Todd’s former business partner, Brad Hanson.

Hanson owned a snowmobile dealership with Palin’s husband Todd, who terminated the partnership after he heard stories about the alleged romp in 1996. This was around the time that Palin was mayor of Wasilla.

“Sarah was elected mayor of Wasilla, Brad became a city council member in the nearby town of Palmer, and they started an affair,” says Jim Burdett, who was described by the Enquirer as a “Hanson family insider.”

“Todd found out about the affair and was so mad he broke up their partnership at the snowmobile dealership.”

The NATIONAL ENQUIRER says that Burdett has gone on the record with the details of the affair and even passed a “rigorous” polygraph test. Another source, who The NATIONAL ENQUIRER did not identify, provided the magazine with a sworn affidavit attesting to the Palin-Hanson report.

“I’ve known about Brad having had an affair for a long time, but it wasn’t until just recently that I learned his affair was with Sarah Palin,” Burdett tells The NATIONAL ENQUIRER.

Rumors of Palin’s alleged secret booty call have been circulating the ‘net. Coincidentally, Hanson has reportedly filed a motion to have his divorce records sealed in Alaska.

Apparently, she's a sucker for the goatee.......