"Anticipation" -- The Ketchup Wars

I hope to sort through this in my mind and return with a well thought-out post on why this is so, but for some reason, this just so sums up why I believe the right is completely tapped out at this moment in history, and ready for defeat. It's almost as if they want to be beaten (or have their bottoms pounded upon, to get the damn sauce to emerge from the bottle) [ed., I didn't know Dick Cheney was into that sort of thing, but kinda makes sense]. It's their natural state in contemporary American political history. It's where they are most comfortable -- not in a position of power (particularly not the awesome responsibility of holding all three branches of government), but in a position to attack and ridicule Democrats who, for the most part, take holding the levers of power seriously.

I know that, to some degree, that overstates the case wildly (yes, I realize Jerry Springer is a democratic delegate from Ohio), but doesn't it seem like the Rightwing nuttery is careering almost uncontrollably towards a state of self-Parody? And their furious surprise at the discipline and control the Kerry/Edwards campaign and the convention itself is showing. They whine about Bush-bashing, but are at a loss to find much of it at the convention.

So, like frat boys recently disciplined by the dean, they come up with sophomoric ideas like "freedom fries" and "W ketchup." Silly.

I especially appreciate the George Washington imagery on the label. A man who, famously if perhaps apocryphally, could not tell a lie, shilling for a group of men and women who don't seem equipped to tell the truth.