Reply #4: What else would they say?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

"We are totally hosed; we're hopelessly behind in the polls because you've all finally figured out that our party is mostly comprised of crooks, perverts, liars and religious fanatics whose desperate determination to hang on to power has cost the lives of thousands of people, looted the treasury, destroyed our country's reputation and generally fucked you over. We know you're going to vote our sorry asses out of office, but we're going to pretend everything's rosy, just like we've been pretending the Iraq debacle is a bed of fucking roses, because nobody wants to vote for losers."