The true deception in current politics

At the Republican National Convention in 2004, as grown men and women waived flip-flops in their hands, a symbol of John Kerry's supposed political record, I wondered is this really the America that our forefathers invisioned. Today it seems as though the tables have turned on the Republican party, perhaps Karma at work:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/13/palin.iraq/index.html