What if the shoe was on the other foot?

What if it was Obama who was the Republican? What if McCain was a Democrat (not that he isn't in the grand scheme of things)? What if Palin were a Democrat and Biden a Republican ... wouldn't things be different.

Do you think for an instant that this display would not cause furious outrage in the Press across the land?



Yes, that is Palin hung in effigy in in West Hollywood. But since the "victim" is a Republican and the perpetrator a Democrat ... this is OK. Chad Michael Morisette claims that this should be "seen as art, and as within the month of October."

IF someone had put Obama in that noose ... well we'd have rioting and certainly someone would be in custody. Yet, a female politician hung in effigy, a woman, some 8 days before an election (the nature of the election season nullifies any notion of a Halloween pass on this) is permissible in that twisted liberal state and in our land. McCain is juxtaposed with this travesty ... emerging from a flaming chimney.

So what if the shoe WERE on the other foot? What would the attacks be? What would be permissible?

If Obama were Republican:

- The media would brand him a Republican terrorist, untrustworthy, dangerous, a part of a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy;
- He'd be accused of being an "Uncle Tom" (Jesse Jackson's slur against Bill Cosby) -- you can't he black and fiscally conservative;
- The New York Times would want -- nay DEMAND -- to know that Obama was born on U.S. soil (why isn't the NYT interested whether Obama is in fact even eligible for the office of President?);
- The press would want to know where he got the money to buy he first house ($800K is not chump change for someone with student loans and no rich family, but with connections to terrorists and indicted property swindlers);
- The press would want to know what his grades were at Columbia, Occidental College and Harvard (Obama won't release his transcripts);
- Democrats would want to know who his friends were in College and why substantially ALL of them appear to have Muslim or Middle Eastern / Pakistani names;
- Liberals would want to know why half of Obama's blood family live in African poverty;
- Everyone would want to know where he planned to get the money from to spend an additional 4 trillion dollars in programs;
- The press would cite his relationship with Rev. Wright as proof of religious extremism;
- Liberals would cite his adherence to Black Liberation Theology as "racist";
- Left wing press would attempt to show each vote that he made to pass a spending bill was also a vote "with Bush";
- Liberals would characterize Obama's support for late-term abortion as "murder" and "genocide";
- The NYT would scream about the "Fairness Doctrine" as an unconstitutional restriction on free speech;
- All left wingers would be spastic about the prospect of an anti-democratic Republican "super-majority" and the prospect of deeds without the benefit of due process, and increased taxation for all as the evil specter of the Vast Right Wing conspiracy;
- Obama would have to prove that he was not a "sleeper" or Manchurian Candidate ... where did he go on his trip around the world as a college drop out -- we know he did visit Pakistan for an extended stay, and Indonesia ... both radical muslim safe havens; AND
- Hillary would be the Democrat nominee....

If Palin were a Democrat:

-- Nobody would give a shit about her wardrobe (Bill Clinton at least once held up Air Force one for his haircut -- at over $50,000 per hour running costs, Edwards likes his $400 haircuts, Hillary has had more work done on her than Joan Rivers and she still looks like they need to use more putty);
-- Her choice to be a working mom would be heralded as an ideal, not a liability of a terminally vain and self absorbed small-town huckster;
-- Her choice to have a Down's baby would show her care about all living creatures and the sanctity of life;
-- Her love of fishing and hunting would be reframed as her love of the outdoors, her sensitivity to nature and the need for culling, as well as the need for all of us to preserve our environment for posterity;
-- Her love of small town politics a sign of her down-to-earth background, away from the military-industrial complex;
-- a second coming of Jimmy the Peanut and his saintly care for all the peoples of the Earth, including the Hamas terrorist organization;
-- A blow against the sexist Republicans that (again) can only nominate two alpha males to represent their interests;
-- Her relative inexperience would be a "breath of fresh air" and "what we need";
-- Her numerous colleges a sign of her feminist struggle to acquire an education in an oppressive system rigged for misogynist males;

If Biden were a Republican:

-- The press would allege that he threatened World War Three within 6 months against all of America's enemies and stated we should trust Obama's ineptitude and freshman incompetence;
-- Democrats would deride him as the least fresh Washington insider ever to be placed on the ticket as a candidate for VP -- more like the fish in the trash compactor over a hot Memorial Day weekend;
-- The NYT would doubtless (and correctly) label him a congenital liar -- making up stories about FDR, his own education, his plagiarism, his failure to achieve or chief sponsor any meaningful legislation;
-- Stewart and Leno would do a skit on "come on down to my local hang out "Katies" in Wilmington (DE) for lemonade, never mind that it went out of business a decade ago and that I prefer scotch to lemonade";
-- Democrats would cite to Biden's own admission that another candidate was a better pick as proof positive that he was right;
-- Some media figure (Couric the Poisonous?) would point out that Biden's statements on the bailout agreed with McCain's (Democrat position) -- that the bailout of AIG would be a bad thing and is entirely different from his Obama's position;
-- The media would point out that Biden flatly stated that Obama was not ready to be president during the primaries;
-- The statement that paying higher taxes was "patriotic" would imply that the 44% of Americans who paid NO federal tax were less than patriotic Americans ... an insult to the "hard working men and women across the country" -- imagine the uproar;
-- Biden's mockery of McCain for failing to be able to use a computer would be seized upon by Liberals as the most crass insult to the disabled of America;
-- The left wing media would brand his penchant for hearing himself speak as evidence that he was a "blowhard."

AND if McCain were a Democrat:

Nobody would say much at all. You see, McCain IS a Democrat --the distinction in this race is that he is running against a full-fledged socialist, and it has been a long time since someone so overtly antithetical to the American dream has had the nomination as against McCain. Either way, the Dems win.