As can be seen at Truthcheck, John MkKKain has tried every possible way to distort, distract and lie his way to the office he has devoted his life to attaining.
Yes, Obama and the democrats have added to the mix, but the two sides are hardly equal in vitriol.
Obama has been cited for inaccuracies or misleading regarding Policy Positions, Real Issues and Party Platform Items. Not cool, but typical politics.
MkKKain and his minions invented character flaws, lied about personal issues and built their entire campaign around Obama’s associations. They labeled him as “other” and did all they could to get us to fear his evil, socialist, terrorist, Muslim, “not like us” ways. They have a large portion of Texas (look up Ignorance International Headquarters) believing his is a Muslim, non-US citizen. Even yesterday, the lovely and talented Hank Williams Jr. told the audience that Obama “hates the National Anthem and wants to replace it with ‘I Want To Teach The World To Sing’”. Petty, stupid, vapid remarks that they think will sway voters. The “smallness” of the Republikkkan campaigns across the country has been remarkable. From Coleman taking bribes in Minnesota, Dole going mental in NC, to Stevens being “non-convicted” in Alaska, to sweet little Sarah being “100% vindicated” in a report that cites her for violating state ethics laws.
The Rupublikkkans had no incumbent President to campaign for them, the VP was pure poison, no one even wanted to ride the MkKKain coat tails after seeing the lack of ideas and meanness of his campaign. They had no play left but to pander to the various base elements of their own party (Religious Wing-Nuts; Ultra-Wealthy 1%; Red-neck, gun-toten’, un-educated, war-rootin’, tooth-missin’, racists: or the power-mad neo-cons), knowing that no path could lead to victory.
I am actually quite conservative in many of my own views and would have liked to have had a viable choice in this election, but what emerged was slander, innuendo and fear-mongering. Even that was not done on a very sophisticated level - more like what would be planned by a group of 4th-grade boys at recess to get even for losing the dodgeball game.