Perplexed Disquietude

The GOP is worried. Worried that Barack Obama did indeed fight back. They have never had an opponent who has called them out on their twaddle. The GOP has successfully since "Tricky Dick" was in office, painted their opponents as sere and plaintive. Barack Obama proved in his speech and has proved for the past 18 months for that matter, that he is not going to let the merchants of fear and smear swiftboat him. 

Swiftboating is a form of imbruting one's image by any means necessary. The GOP typically uses elements of questioning patriotism, while lacing it with character assassination. They most recently used it in 2004, with Senator John Kerry. 

Barack Obama called out John McCain on his idiotic campaign during his acceptance speech by saying that we can respectfully disagree without questioning each other's love of country. With amusing remarks, Barack showed he could deliver a menacing punch to the GOP merchants of veneration. Karl Rove, a protege of the Bush administration, successfully painted John Kerry as a demon by eviscerating his war record and making him look like a kook. Karl Rove is now working for McCain, but Karl did not anticipate a fight from the Illinois democrat.

Barack Obama's speech set the bar high for the GOP, who has been worried from the start because their brand is ruined. As one Republican put it, "if they were dog food, the grocer would be take it off the shelves." The swiftboating does not seem to be working this time; partly because Obama is tough, but more importantly, because after decades of being controlled like puppets; Americans are rejecting the GOP's excrement. The party of Reagan is truly and utterly addled this election year.