One of the fundamental reasons why many Americans (Democrat or Republican) do not like the Republican party is because of the hypocritical viewpoints constantly driven home by right wing controlled radio and Fox News. Time after time, day after day and comment after comment, there are some on the right in this country who love to slam people for not living the way they think they should live. But, when they want something to go their way, they will defend that same position–even it it means flat out changing their opinion on a minute-by-minute basis. Talk about flip flop!

I, for one, am personally disgusted with the lying, cheating, stealing and make ourselves wealthier while everyone else suffers Republican Party. I was disgusted the day George Bush took office. And now, I’m even more disgusted that a bunch of people are rallying around someone they’ve NEVER MET IN THEIR LIVES. They are saying that she is the savior of the Republican party, in order to push her a heartbeat away from the Presidency of the United States of America. This is not a movie. This is not a soap opera. This is our reality today and it is despicable.

Sarah Palin gives one slanderous, vicious speech, filled with complete lies and falsehoods. All while the red, white and blue of the American flag waves in the background. Is this what American has come to? To me, it’s more of the same.

American politicians on both sides are guilty. It’s my opinion that the worst of the lot are on the Republican side of the equation. They are a bunch of self-absorbed, half-assed politicians so desperately wanting to both hang onto power and their money, that they will SAY or DO anything to put themselves into the highest office in the land. Why? So they can drill until we have nothing left in this hemisphere, because they are too lazy to try something new. McCain has voted against many new energy policies. Obama has a vision to transform the country and lead the world on new energy policy.

When we talk about restoring American principles and values to the White House, we’re now talking about putting someone with literally NO FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIENCE a heart-beat away from running the free world? Are we crazy? Talk about being the laughingstock of the world. If anything happened to McCain, we’d want Palin going up against the Axis of Evil? Making the decision to go into Pakistan? Or, negotiate on nuclear issues with Europe vs. Iran? Give me a break! She has NO experience on the national or international stage. What does she know about nuclear policy? She studied journalism, not political science. She didn’t even have a passport until she decided to go visit the Alaskan National Guard in Kuwait after 40-plus years. It took her that long to visit another country? Okay…I’ll make that 24-years, give or take a year and give Palin the benefit of the doubt. There are thousands of young people who study abroad today. I’ve been to more foreign countries than Palin. And that does not include Canada, who she gave a $40 Billion gas contract to for a pipeline. Talk about shipping American jobs overseas? She shipped them right next door.

Maybe we don’t have an American company that can do the work. I don’t know. I’d sure like to find out why did this job go to a Canadian company? I love Canada, but now their dollar is equal to hours. There shouldn’t be any real savings that would prevent us from keeping that contract in the U.S.

Listen to Bill O’Reilly, a hack of a journalist and probably the biggest right wing puppet ever (yes, even bigger than Rush Limbaugh), say that it’s not okay for Jamie Lynn Spears to have a baby (whose family can support her, thank you very much), but it’s perfectly fine for Palin’s daughter to get pregnant at 17. Because it’s simply just a “personal matter.” Wasn’t there a child rape law passed somewhere? When was it okay for a mother to get on stage and state that she is proud of her daughter for having sex before she’s legally supposed to? When I was younger, I remember my first love asking me to wait until AFTER she was 18 to have sex. I respected that and waited for her to reach legal age. If I didn’t, I could have been arrested. But Palin’s daughter and Levi get a pass by the Christian right? The hypocrisy is outrageous.

Dick Morris should be the last person to talk about sexism. Wasn’t he the one caught whispering national secrets over pillow talk to his mistress? And we listen to this clown? People give him the time of day. Why?

I know that Netmix is supposed to be about music and other stuff…but we can’t just sit here and say nothing. It would be irresponsible to have this forum and not inform our readers of our opinions and viewpoint. More dance music blogs and web sites should do the same. And if they don’t get involved, for one reason or another, then don’t complain when more of your rights are stripped away by Republican right wing censors who want to ban books (and possibly music). Remember, Palin once wanted to ban books from her local library and fired the librarian because she didn’t get her way (the librarian was hired back after a public outcry). Is this the kind of censorship you want a hair-trigger away from being the leader of the free world? Not me, that’s for sure.

I also ask, what is Sarah Palin’s position on file sharing? Have her kids ever downloaded music for free? Have her kids ever illegally shared music files with anyone else? Inquiring minds want to know. If so, what did Palin do about it? She has five kids (one recent). One out of the older four must have an iPod, right? Who’s asking the tough questions?

Have you looked at McCain’s Economic Plan on his web site? Have you compared that with Obama’s? The democratic candidates policy proposals are so specific and so well thought out, while McCain’s are pretty much a few paragraphs of hokey crap.

C’mon people. We are smarter than this! It’s not that I am enthralled by Obama. It’s that we believe he is truthful and respectful of our intelligence as Americans to make informed, real decisions based on the issues. Not on a popularity contest. The Republicans make every election about culture, not issues. This is right out of the Karl Rove playbook. Fool me once, okay. Fool me twice, I should be ashamed.

McCain is supposed to be a “maverick,” but he totally CRUMBLED to the Christian religious right wing of his party at the last minute, so he would be able to be able to have his chance–a final chance I might ad–to win the White House.

I say to John McCain: you can’t even fight your own party, how can I expect you to fight for me on the world stage? You talk about fighting special interests, but you’re a sucker cause the Right got to you. You put someone who doesn’t even believe what you believe on your ticket! And you’re telling me that you deserve the chance to ascend to the Presidency of the United States, based on all of this? Then, you go on national television and try to sell it to the American people, like some used car salesman. You wanted Lieberman, but now here’s this shiny new, more expensive car with a higher interest rate that will have you locked in for years in a deal you never should have made in the first place.

I was willing to listen to you make your case, but you have lost all credibility with me. I hope and pray the people of our great country can see through the politics of the same and choose Obama/Biden in 60 days.

Thanks to Jon Stewart and The Daily Show for putting this all in perspective.

– Tony Zeoli

You gotta love Jon Stewart. Here he is on John McCain and the Sweet Talk Express.