Lipstick on a Pig

Here States side, “lipstick on a pig” has become the whining battle cry of the Republicans. Obama had made a statement to the effect that however McCain-Palin dress itself, it is still more of a continuation of the Bush admin. —i.e., even if you put a lipstick on a pig, it still remains a pig. McCain had used the same phrase in describing Hillary Clinton's health plan. But the wily Republicans latched on to that, corrupting it as a negative attack on Palin, who had earlier described herself as a ferocious pitbull (dog) hockey mom with lipstick. Come on! Give me a break.
Get back to the program people—health care, the tanking economy, tarnished reputation abroad, disaster capitalism, etc, etc.