{"id":1800,"date":"2010-04-12T10:20:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T18:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2012-07-25T11:34:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T19:34:48","slug":"the-missing-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1800\/the-missing-link\/","title":{"rendered":"The Missing Link"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Tim Arnold<\/a><\/strong>, guest contribution<\/em>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 12, 2010<\/p>\n

I know what you\u2019re thinking: how could anybody defile our Statue of Liberty like this? Our very symbol of freedom and democracy, the icon we all rallied around after 9\/11? Who would do such a thing?<\/p>\n

The Republican Party, that\u2019s who.<\/p>\n

\"\"

Photo by Tim Arnold<\/p><\/div>\n

I took this photo Thursday, September 2, 2004, in the lobby of a sprawling space at 220 12th Avenue, between 27th and 28th Streets, in New York City. It was rented on behalf of the Republican Party and converted to host after-hours parties for their delegates and insiders during their convention week.<\/p>\n

The week before the convention it was cleared for security by the US Capitol Police, whose mission it is to \u201cprotect and support the Congress in meeting its Constitutional responsibilities.” This statue \u2013 rented and installed there by the Republican conventioneers – is two stories tall and sat right inside the front door and immediately to the right of a large bank of metal detectors. \u201cGive me your revelers,\u201d it says around its base.<\/p>\n

Building tenants were warned that it would be active each night from 10pm to 6am \u2013 and no wonder: lots of steam to blow off after endless speeches about why it takes George W. and Dick Cheney to protect us from dangers of the world we live in, and admonitions from the likes of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who said, \u201cTo those who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say, don\u2019t be economic girlie men!\u201d And rants from Southern Dixiecrat Senator Zell Miller: \u201cour nation is being torn apart and made weaker because of the Democrats’ manic obsession to bring down our Commander-in-Chief.” (A teaching moment, as President Obama might call it now, except these Republicans didn\u2019t learn a damned thing, did they?).<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"\"At the time I questioned the utter hypocrisy of it all. How does the Republican Party come to New York, drape themselves in the American flag and family values, co-opt the Statue of Liberty as their convention symbol, parade 9\/11 widows to the stage and shamelessly exploit this act of war in speech after convention speech, all within a heart beat of Ground Zero \u2013 and then erect an abomination like this?<\/p>\n

I wanted to know how Rudy Giuliani felt about how his Republican Party defiled his city\u2019s and his nation\u2019s most powerful symbol of the very values they continue to lay claim to. Or Mayor Bloomberg?<\/p>\n

Was this George Pataki\u2019s idea of how to welcome visiting Republicans into \u201chostile territory,\u201d make them feel more at home? How did any of these guys explain this to their wives (ah, never mind)? And I wanted to know how \u201cgood Republicans\u201d like John McCain (well, he used to be one) tolerated such a thing \u2013 especially since his party had adopted this very symbol to represent their convention. And by the way, who paid for it all?<\/p>\n

And hey – why would these 2nd Amendment zealots want to set up metal detectors to screen for guns, anyway? It\u2019s our inalienable right to carry the damned things. Ain\u2019t it, or ain\u2019t it not?<\/p>\n

Problem was I was taking all this stuff way too seriously.<\/p>\n

First of all, think about it: Mark Sanford and John Ensign and Paul Stanley and Mark Duvall could have walked into their 2004 convention party headquarters in New York City, taken one look at this sexy lady and said, \u201cyeah baby! That\u2019s what I\u2019m talkin\u2019 about!\u201d<\/p>\n

And then it dawned on me: McCain was thinking ahead, too, and he must have come face with an inspiration:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Because less than four years later he erects another robust female figure, puts her on her own pedestal and names her \u201cthe next Vice-President of the United States of America!\u201c Let\u2019s face it, Sarah Palin has a lot in common with this other Republican version of what must be their vision of what the real American woman is all about. Damn straight!<\/p>\n

Most of America was surprised with McCain\u2019s pick, but that likely did not include the Republican conventioneers at that 2004 convention party \u2013 they\u2019d already seen a fully-authorized, pre qualified, full-figured precursor-icon for an otherwise unknown who would storm America\u2019s next election stage with breathless \u2013 and some would say, clueless \u2013 cheerleader chutzpah.<\/p>\n

Think about the foreshadowing, the links between these two babelicious idols that at the very least must have represented for McCain a phantasmagoric contrast to what he was going home to:<\/p>\n

Both assume one of those jaunty, look-at-me ain\u2019t I hot? poses.<\/p>\n

And speaking of hot \u2026 you betcha! \u2026<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\u201cGive me your revelers,\u201d is what it said to the Republican partiers at the base of the notthe- Statue of Liberty. And the she went back into storage. Give me a bridge to nowhere, said the Governor. And then she quit.<\/p>\n

The not-the-Statue wears a tiara crown; the Statuesque wore one when she won the Miss Wasilla Pageant \u2013 but just look at her now, here she comes – still wearing one as if.<\/p>\n

Both are stylishly adorned, some would say gratuitously sexy, both wardrobes funded by their enablers.<\/p>\n

The not-the-Statue of Liberty has bigger boobs. The not-the-Vice President is a bigger boob.<\/p>\n

Each one is air headed: the statue, literally, the wannabe \u2026 literally. In other words, they\u2019re both empty suits. They are both political bimbos.<\/p>\n

Truth be known, Palin has much in common with the real Statue of Liberty, too: \u201cThe statue is built top-heavy in order to create a slight forced perspective and appear more correctly proportioned when viewed from its base.\u201d* Which also describes the goal her political handlers would have to adopt in her election bid.<\/p>\n

The Statue of Liberty<\/a> holds a tabula ansata<\/a> in her left hand, representing the Declaration of Independence; the not-the-Statue of Liberty holds no such thing, tantamount to admitting she\u2019s no pretender. The wannabe writes crib sheet notes on her left hand \u2013 a declaration of dependence – which is tantamount to admitting she is.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\u201cThe statue was built to withstand heavy winds, but designed to sway when faced with high wind loads.\u201d * Ring a bell?<\/p>\n

\u201cGive me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses \u2026 the wretched refuse \u2026 the homeless\u2026 ,\u201d as it\u2019s inscribed at the base of our Statue of Liberty. To which Palin could be expected to respond, \u201cwouldn\u2019t that be one of those dope-y change-y things for us Republicans?\u201d<\/p>\n

On the other hand \u2026 maybe this cheerleader ain\u2019t so dumb after all:<\/p>\n

\"\"

“Gimmee an O!”<\/p><\/div>\n

After all, if, according to the Republican’s last excuse for a president, \u201c\u2026 the human being and fish can coexist peacefully,\u201d then anything is possible.<\/p>\n

* Wikepedia, The Statue of Liberty, Physical characteristics.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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