Republicans are Lying Again!

The past few weeks the political scene has widdled itself down to the two parties nominees—John McCain for the Republicans and Barak Obama for the Democrats. Recenlty, both parties made it official with their National Conventions in St. Paul/Minneapolis and Denver.

Marked by a who’s-who of political faces, giant jumbo screens, and a mix of roaring and boring speeches, both parties were pushing “change” over the current status quo in Washington. One thing that hasn’t changed though is their true motives: getting our votes at almost any cost, and the Republicans are bending—and sometimes leaving complete segments out of—the truth.

According to the Associated Press, who went back through and painstakingly fact checked and re-checked both parties speeches at the conventions, it was found out that both stretched the facts, but that the Republicans did more so.

Starting off with the vice presidential selection Sarah Palin. Gov. Palin has stated she is against earmarks and wasteful spending, telling Congress “thanks but no thanks.”

I guess she forgot she hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington to support earmarks for the town of Wasilla, totaling $27 million, while she was mayor. Or how she was for a bridge from the mainland to a tiny island whose biggest attraction was an airport, what she know calls the “Bridge to Nowhere.” The bridge would’ve cost an estimated $398 million.

Also, that luxury jet she said she sold on Ebay was a stretch. It actually wasn’t sold on Ebay (according to CNN) but to a private buyer for $2.1 million. Too bad it cost the Alaska taxpayers $2.7 million to purchase.

But Gov. Palin is not the only Republican that has been stretching the truth. Former Massachusetts governor has said that Washington needed to “change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington.” I guess he forgot that Congress was in Conservative Republican control until last year, and a conservative President has been in the oval office for the past 7 years.

Republican nominee John McCain followed suit. He praised Palin’s ability to run the Alaska National Guard. The only problem is Palin loses executive control of the state guard—which roughly at 4,200 members—when National emergencies, such as the wars in Afganistan and Iraq. Did he mention that the Alaska National Guards is one of the smallest in the country?

Even Cindy McCain got in on the action, saying that Palin has experience with foreign policy because Alaska is so close to Russia. I guess Palin just walks across the Bering Strait and chats it up with Putin. Well, at least she knows geography.

By no means am I discrediting the Democrats of stretching the truth: they are. It just seems like the Republicans are doing it more.

The main goal of political parties is to gain and keep office. I don’t care how much they say they are “there for the common people.” These people aren’t like the common American, and they never will be. They say they are pushing change to help de-corrupt Washington. So why does it still feel like more of the same from both sides?