We've Been Silent On McCain-Paris-Britney Too Long!

Mother and child

Even though Bush personally nixed plans to have Britney Spears play the Republican Convention in NYC in 2004, the trashy, drug addicted and dysfunctional McComb, Mississippi/Kentwood, Louisiana dancer and singer, is as famous for endorsing him (as well as Pepsi and a bevy of swell fragrances called Curious, Fantasy, In Control and, most recently, Believe) as she is for her attempts to write songs. Watch her first brush with GOP presidential fame:



Now she has been dragged into another Republican presidential campaign-- along with one of the few celebrities with even less talent than herself-- and she doesn't like it one bit. While McCain has been roundly berated for taking the low road for a spate of vicious, racist, negative campaign ads, Britney herself has either been too drugged up to be aware of them or is, uncharacteristically, keeping her own counsel. But the other camp isn't.

Kathy Hilton, the proud parent of Paris, is a McCain campaign contributor. Shallow, selfish rich people tend to kick in a little when their candidates are running for office. But now that infamous McCain ad, further dehumanizing her daughter, has got her dander up. Kathy posted at HuffPo this morning. She actually managed 5 coherent sentences proving she's twice as smart as her daughter and Britney combined. She points out that the ad is a frivolous way to chose the next president and that it's a "complete waste of the country's time and attention at the very moment when millions of people are losing their homes and their jobs," although glossing over why she donated money to a candidate who's record and policies are the very cause of those millions of people losing their homes and their jobs. But her first point, a quintessentially Republican-- and personal-- one, is that "it is a complete waste of the money John McCain's contributors have donated to his campaign." Indeed. And I hope they learned their lesson. Why not, as an alternative, donate to someone who is planning to come to the aid of those millions of people whose homes and jobs are in jeopardy because of the Bush-McCain Economic Miracle? May I suggest someone courageous, fearless and brilliant like Alan Grayson, Jeff Merkley, Carol Shea-Porter, or Howard Shanker? Or, if you don't want to donate to a Democrat, Steve Porter.

Meanwhile, here's McCain's latest fucked up and desperate campaign ad-- in which he substitutes Britney and Paris for Moses-- and here's one from Obama: