All a Dream -- Like Dallas

Back in the 1980's, when John McCain was embroiled in the Keating Five scandal that cost Americans a hundred or so billion dollars and a pack of Savings and Loans, I was Producer-Writer of the TV show Dallas -- set in Cheney-Bush Land. Like them, we drilled for oil, corrupted folks, screwed them out of money and livelihoods and then.. then there was The Dream.

Midway into the show's Eighth season, after the Exec Producer, Patrick Duffy, and I had left, Dallas took a pretty sharp ratings drop. Management asked the three of us back. But there was a problem. Duffy's character, Bobby Ewing was dead. Millions had seen him struck by a car, then saw him die on screen. How do you bring a dead man back? Well, a solution eventually emerged. It was decided that Bobby's "widow" Pamela would wake up one morning, find Bobby in the shower and tell him she'd had a horrible dream -- that he'd been hit by a car and had died.

Which brings us to John McCain.

One of his lobbyists (I mean Spinner-Strategists! Keep forgetting he doesn't work with lobbyists) came up with a "Dream" of his own. "Why don't we convince the voters," he suggested, "that the Republican Party wasn't founded in the 1850s, but was born just last month, when Sarah Palin came on-stage!"

"Genius," exclaimed the other Rove-ites, little red eyes brimming with rapture. "Talk about taking a wide stance! That way we can argue that nothing that happened during the past eight years could possibly be considered our fault. All that ugliness with 'W'hat's-his-name and his Veep, the deaths of our soldiers, the economic chaos they're leaving, housing crisis, banking crisis, so many foreclosures, the fact that (wink-wink) McCain really did vote with George 90% of the time... none of it can be blamed on us - not if it was in a dream. Wiping out the Bush-Cheney years means that even the Bridge to Nowhere didn't happen... so we won't have to answer for why our PTA Mom-Hockey-Mayor-Governor was 'for' it before she was against it. Betchya we even evade the disgrace of Tom Delay's treachery, and Abramoff's payoffs, and the billions in cash Cheney's Halliburton ate. None of the scandals will have a Republican leg to stand on. How could they if our party is only one week new. The Bush years'll be gone like Dallas' dream."

Tragically, McCain's "New Republicans" may actually be on to something if voters don't start demanding something better than sloganeering. Dallas' public wanted more than more pretty, smiling faces. They wanted basic change in the Storyline. America needs that change desperately now, but we sure won't get it with the Family McBush. Wake up, America! The Dallas dream worked. If, God forbid, the Bush-Rove-McCain ploy should work, the four years they will bring us will be a nightmare.

Comments

[Ardeche73]

You betcha. It would be no dream if McCain and Palin snuck in. It would be a nightmare.

[FALCON72]

Too many of otherwise intelligent Americans have been living in the dream the last 8 years. However, now reality, which is the worst nightmare we could imagine, has jerked all of us wide awake. The reality that the Republican stewardship of our country has brought us to the literal brink of economic disaster. The reality that it will likely take many years before we recover. The reality that when the Christian right wing idealogues promised everything would be right in our world if their annointed ones were put in office turned out to be outrageous lies. The dream McCain/Palin want us to believe in has the plausibility of the Easter bunny.......it's the stuff for little children.

[karebarron]

Well that about explains it. And here all along I thought McCain/Palin were running, not on the Republican ticket, but rather on the third party "Maverick" ticket. I like your dream scenario much better. It fits well with the fantastical world (and economy) John Mccain appears to exist in.

[rich misty]

I wonder if there is a medical treatment possible for Republicanism.

[Dystopic]

no treatment, stupid is permanent

[singwood]

Your suggestion is already in their game plan. When Sara chided Joe during the "debate" for bringing up the Bush record as " pointing to the past, not the future", she was trying to pull your dream stunt. We are not supposed to remember nor blame the philosophy the small government party. The mess-makers are now the change-makers, don'tcha know.

[ert]

Palin is a disgusting person she has some nerve to attack Obama, McCain is shameful with no honor. Im sure another vet just shedded a tear.

[mommadona]

You would think after the treatment during the hurricanes that both Texas and Louisiana would be as blue as blue could be......

What is with people - that they are more loyal to an ideologically challenged 'party' that governs against their personal interest every time?

It's called a PARTY for a reason.....that's what it's all about....party hearty.

Realize that the Chamber of Commerce votes and lobbies AGAINST your family's interests.

Leave your religion in your church. Take the spirit with you.
Get over yourselves.

Now, let's get back to the people's business.
That is called governing. NOT to be mixed up with BUSINESS.

[tompoe]

Interesting connections. One thing the Republicans can't do, though. They can call themselves anything they want, but they can't hide their Party of Corporate Welfare label. America does not tolerate corporate welfare. Say goodbye to the Party of Corporate Welfare. Unfortunately, it looks like we'll have half a million more foreclosures between now and January. Hopefully, the bleeding will then stop, and we can begin the long road back to where we were in 1999. Next Republican you see, make sure they know they belong to the Party of Corporate Welfare.

[HateLieCheatKillRepubWay]

ROTFLMAO; that's too funnee. It's funny because I am been thinking maybe I will wake up and the people of American would be more intelligent in their voting. I guess I have to wait to Nov 4th to see it I am awake or it's a nightmare.