Political Jackass

Since John McCain can’t run on his policies in this election (he’s agreed with Bush over 90% of the time when Bush’s approval ratings are the lowest they’ve ever been), he decided to run on personal attacks and fear. The Republicans attack over everything, even if their own candidates can be attacked using the same criteria. They took it to a new low at the RNC. The taboo of American politics is using footage from 9/11 to further your political party’s cause. They did it. I’m completely disgusted by it. How dare them use that footage to drum up support for McCain. McCain should denounce it right now. Those people did not die so John McCain could be president. The entire Republican party should be ashamed of themselves. From the Boston Globe:

One of the most enduring taboos in American politics, the airing of graphic images from the September 11 attacks in a partisan context, died today. It was nearly seven years old.

The informal prohibition, which had been occasionally threatened by political ads in recent years, was pronounced dead at approximately 7:40 CST, when a video aired before delegates at the Republican National Convention included slow-motion footage of a plane striking the World Trade Center, the towers’ subsequent collapse, and smoke emerging from the Pentagon.

The September 11 precedent was one of the few surviving campaign-season taboos. It is survived by direct comparisons of one’s opponents to Hitler.