THIS ABOUT SUMS UP MY FEELINGS

From the smirkingchimp.com:

A few weeks ago I lamented the differences between the conventions run by Democrats and Republicans, noting:

Here we all are, paying APPROPRIATE TRIBUTE to John fucking McCain and his honourable fucking service to his country, and the horrific tortures he underwent in Vietnam...

And all I can think about now is what the goddamned Republicans would do to him if he were the Democratic nominee. The purple fucking bandaids they'd be parading around at their convention, mocking that service and that torture. The talk radio blowhards' belittling and questioning of his being shot down.

And, in a personal parallel, I think of my father, and what might have happened to HIM, had he survived and gone into politics as a Democrat. The SAME FUCKING THING that happened to John Kerry, that's what. And the same fucking thing that WOULD happen to John McCain if HE were a Democrat -- the thing that HE CANNOT or WILL NOT see, that his TOTAL LACK of empathy allows him to ignore.

They are fucking SCUM, these goddamned so-called "conservatives." These motherfucking REPUBLICANS. They will waltz into Minneapolis or St. Paul -- which is it, anyway? -- and they will puff up their faux-patriotic chests and call themselves "lovers of country" and think THEMSELVES the TRUE PATRIOTS -- all the while HATING HALF OF AMERICA.

And the Democrats in Denver will have stood to attention during the raising of the flag and the singing of the National Anthem and the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance -- and they will have bowed their heads and nodded solemnly - AND SINCERELY -- while Democratic politician after Democratic politican reminded them and the national audience that John McCain DOES love his country and DID serve his country honourably and suffer terribly for her...

And next week HORDES of "conservative" Republicans will JEER and LAUGH at Democrats and BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA and his RADICAL WIFE -- those FOREIGN, WEIRD, BLACK BLACK BLACK LEFTISTS -- and MOCK their LIBERAL, QUEER, UNAMERICAN-NESS and their LIBERAL, QUEER, UNAMERICAN supporters...

And THEY'RE the PATRIOTS???

And the fucking corporate media will lap it up and stoke the flames and goddamn if half this motherfucking country will go to the polls and vote for John motherfucking McCain and the party of HATE.

Sure enough, the Republicans remained true to ugly, predictable, hateful form; their convention was an exercise in shameless dishonesty and supposititious patriotism. Given four days to speak to the American people and make their case for John McCain, they chose instead to spend the vast majority of their time mocking, belittling and sneering at Barack Obama -- and his proposals for solving this country's problems and for this country's future -- and, by extension, his millions of supporters.