Hate Week begins for McCain's Republicans

Thanks to the nomination of Sarah Palin, we already know how it will end...

On the sixth day of Hate Week, after the processions, the speeches, the shouting, the singing, the banners, the posters, the films, the waxworks, the rolling of drums and squealing of trumpets, the tramp of marching feet, the grinding of the caterpillars of tanks, the roar of massed planes, the booming of guns - after six days of this, when the great orgasm was quivering to its climax and the general hatred of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium that if the crowd could have got their hands on the 2,000 Eurasian war-criminals who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of the proceedings, they would unquestionably have torn them to pieces - at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally.

There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place. Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy.

The candidate who has repeatedly attacked his opponent for lack of experience is choosing a running mate with similarly little experience.

The candidate who has claimed that the overriding issue of this election is the threat of international terrorism -- and that his opponent is, because of a lack of experience, ill-suited to face down that threat -- is choosing a running mate who literally appears not to have formulated an opinion on the country's ongoing wars.

The candidate who has derided his opponent for not providing details on the "change" he would bring (despite that candidate's thorough public documentation of his specific differences with the policies of the current administration) is now preparing to stake his claim to the Presidency on the entirely vague notion that he (an ardent supporter of the current administration and longtime member of Congress) will bring "reform" to Washington.

Almost all of this candidate's partisan supporters are sure to accept this instantaneous, complete reversal at the end of their upcoming weeklong celebration, which will be punctuated by the moment the candidate becomes the nominee. Together they will stand, cheering, buried in confetti and balloons, never having been at war with Eurasia.

It was sabotage! The agents of Goldstein had been at work!