Well, now that I’m a member I can leave a proper Thank You for the inspiration.

Yeah, that is a really long discussion about a bunch of nobodies.

It makes the Repubs’ quest for a presidential candidate earlier in the cycle look positively rich with prospects.

It also forecasts a VP candidate who’s more of a loser than their presidential search dribbled out.

Should be a hell of a ticket.

The Politics of Leprosy.

If you vote for McCain you just may catch it. Excellent!

People come away with different impressions of the same text.

That passage lept out at me.

Personally, I’m looking forward to the McCain-Chertoff ticket, and one of those catchy press monikers like: “The Cadaver Twins.”

When I see things like “I follow politics pretty closely” and “until recently, I had no idea who so-and-so is” quite close, I know I am in the midst of great punditry.

One thing we haven’t considered w/r/t Carcieri is that the ticket would be McCain/Carcieri. Say it. That’s an excessive number of hard “c” sounds.

Thank God this team of all-wise pundits are considering the vital issues facing America when they offer their thoughtful insights into the all-important selection of a vice presidential candidate.

By the way, Dan Quayle is still available, has policy experience, is way younger than McCain, has only one hard “c” sound in his name.

Marsha Blackburn is probably one of the least-bad choices if McCain decides that he needs a woman on the ticket, as she’s a wonderful and articulate conservative from a border-South state

When I read things like this, it’s as if the primary wars among Dems quieten instantly, and you see just how fucked the GOP is.

Marsha frigging Blackburn, that no-brained, self-impressed heehaw? Oh, dear me. Well, she’s one of the ‘least bad’ choices among the huge selection of female GOPpers in Congress. As for the Afric– …ah.

Dan McLaughlin I, too, like Hunstman, he’d probably be somewhere between #4 and #6 on my list.

Uh, dude. Wouldn’t that make him #5?

Wow: it’s a veritable garden of delights over there:

blackhedd: If it weren’t for McCain’s age and infirmities, I’d say that the veep slot isn’t worth paying any attention to.

Yes, yesss…. if only.

Hunter Baker: Burn it down. Rick Santorum.

Wouldja? Wouldja please? Pleeeeze?

Neil Stevens: But job one is winning, and to win we need winners

Think, dammit, THINK! There’s got to be someone out there!

Mark Kilmer: What about Duncan Hunter or Spence Abraham?
Leon H. Wolf: [Hunter] beclowned himself on national TV twice.

Beclowned?!@?

Then, from the wilderness, a sage, an oracle, beams forth with a winner: John Boltooooon!

You can say that again

I swear to God, they got *this* close to shrugging: “what if we just grabbed some random schmuck off the convention floor — couldn’t be much worse, could it?”

With half the GOP heavy hitters either indicted or in jail and the rest about to be un-elected because their politics are totally out of touch with America’s needs and desires, they’re pretty much left inflating the party’s dustbunnies and boogers to see if they can wear a suit and tie and be sworn into office… but as one of the oracles over there declared: “in order to win, we need winners…” — oh, snap! But thank you for playing.

Just curious, but was this event straight-jacket optional? How about drool bibs?
Please God let them be stoopid er..I mean clever enough to choose John Bolten.

Favorite comment over there (the same guy said this):

I do not see this as overwhelmingly important, so long as he doesn’t pick a fellow Septuagenerian.
[…]
Pick a solid conservative, as his first Presidential decision can be said to give insight into his plans for governance. I like Jon Huntsman from Utah and Al Haig. (Oh, why not?)

Maybe because Al’s an octogenarian?

Are they talking about Marty Feeb?

Hunt, hunt, hunt
He’s the Huntsman
“Into action” is his cry
From the forest to the city
He will run there in a jiffy
To sock evil in the eye

Marty Feeb was a poor hunter
Hungry without dough
‘Til the day he saved a chunky elf
From being eaten by a crow
The elf rewarded Marty Feeb
With a magic sack of corn
He gained strength and speed and shiny teeth
And as the Huntsman was reborn

Hunt, hunt, hunt
He’s the Huntsman
He’ll whip the pants off the bad guys
If there’s an emergency
Sound the Horn of Urgency
And summon the Huntsman
“Into action” is his cry!
Hunt.

I think people haven’t really caught on to the fact that McCain is going to get his clock cleaned by Obama. This will be no contest at all. It is going to be a landslide of historic proportions. Obama would have beaten McCain without the Iraq War and Bush baggage McCain will be carrying into the election. I would say that McCain’s chances of winning this election are barely better than his chances of dying of old age before November. Both are in the 10 to 15 % range. Even my Republican father is considering voting for Obama (he voted for Bush twice, Bush’s father twice and Reagan twice and… Bob Dole).
As soon as it goes head to head, McCain will flounder like an old, sick dog who needs to be put out of his misery. What’s he going to do - make another trip to Iraq? He’s got nothing.

Jeesh, thanks a lot. I wasted 15 minutes reading that thread and lost a 1/2 dozen political IQ points in the process. What a bunch of smug, self-deluding clowns. Nothing like whistling past the political graveyard, I guess….

I love this line… “it would take all of two televised speeches for [Mike] Pence to become a household name!

Yep, Pence would be a nationally known self-righteous dweeb instead of just being known as a self-righteous dweeb just in Indiana….

And they descend into kabbalistic numerology:

I also admire his bio–but that’s not exactly Cheney calliber from where I sit unless I’m missing something.

By an odd coincidence, I believe they were born in the same year.

My favorite part is that they don’t mention really any of the concern troll favorites–jindal anyone?–that the brooks’s, rove’s etc… have been touting. Why? because they are just among friends and they don’t have to keep up the pretense that the republican party as a whole is committed to anything other than taxpayer rip offs and war.

aimai

Now, now. Let the kids play “election.” It keeps them out of the pool hall in any case.

Totally off topic, but holy hell, sometimes they just write themselves.

Taken from here: http://hotlineblog.nationaljou.....nd_be.html

Joe Lieberman’s response to Obama’s comments that McSame has “lost his bearings”

“‘I just want to report that this morning I personally checked John McCain’s bearings,” said the 2000 Dem veep nom. “He has not lost any of them. They are all in really great shape.”

Feel the Joementum!

thx, socaljason, the mental imagery of joe checking john’s bearings just made me throw up a little in my mouth… I’m sure they’re close and all that, but really. That’s just…

In the words of one of our most famous VP’s: “So!?!”

“Dan McLaughlin: I, too, like Hunstman, he’d probably be somewhere between #4 and #6 on my list.”

Would that make him about #5, Dan?

I think people haven’t really caught on to the fact that McCain is going to get his clock cleaned by Obama.

And Obama has yet to even really use his stealth weapon yet: Michelle Obama. Just wait until the public gets a clear contrast between the Princeton/Harvard educated Ms. Obama (not a bad orator in her own right) and McCain’s crazy-eyed, hillbilly heroin-loving trollop. Ouch….

Aw hell, just give it to Cheney again. That way we won’t have to pry him out of his secret bunker.

Why not N.Y. Republican Congressman Vito Fossella? I hear that he’s going to be available for other work very soon.

Protip: Fossella is strong on Family Values. So strong, in fact, that he has two families.

” I like Carcieri a lot. Yeah, he’s not very charismatic, but he’s better than Cheney, while exuding the same level of gravitas. ”

I have no idea who this Carcieri guy is, but more charisma than Cheney? Ouch. That narrows it down to those not comatose or on life support. Now the thought of nominating Ricky Santorum - GENIUS!

Frankly, the most popular Repub at the moment is probably Laura Bush. I don’t see the appeal myself, there doesn’t seem to be anyone else.

Jesus doesn’t love us enough to make McCain take Carcieri:

http://www.projo.com/news/poli.....6081c.html

And that’s one of his better weeks in recent memory.

McInsane’s essential problem in picking a running mate is that no matter what side dish you serve with baked shit, the whole dish just tastes like baked shit.

Face it; whomever McCain chooses, the ticket will be a douche and a turd sandwich.

The jokers over at Red State have been inhaling the heady fragrance of each other’s farts for so long that they now mistake them for cologne.

Hoekstra and Hunter were my favs. Like there isn’t enough crazy on the ticket with McInsane himself. A little disappointed that George Allen didn’t get any love.

Pejman Yousefzadeh: Five points.

1. Cheney did indeed clean Edwards’s clock during their debate. As Robert Draper noted in his book, Dead Certain, whatever one thinks of George W. Bush’s intellect, he would at the very least read serious books and entertain serious arguments. Edwards would not do even that. Cheney–as Draper further recounts–nevertheless trained for his encounter with Edwards as if Edwards was the greatest debater of all time. The real Edwards was a pale imitation of the person Cheney trained to debate. The contest was no contest at all.

Well, I just don’t remember the clock-cleaning Cheney gave Edwards during their 2004 debate. Must have pushed the mute button for a second. Or maybe I was stoned. On one hand, I almost feel sorry for these guys when they make dumbass statements. On the other hand…Nah.

Somebody owes me a coke. . .

Hey, it IS the sincerest form of flattery, y’know…

Dear God! I don’t know where to begin. Do they not know how they sound?

I guess not, since they don’t know the difference between Pakistanis and people from Southeast Asia.

Beclowned?!@?

Yeah, it’s a word they made up a while back, and they really seem to have taken a shine to it. Couldn’t tell you why.

Urrrgh. The second ‘c’ in Carcieri is soft. The ‘qu’ in Quayle is hard. Egad — they can’t even count! To TWO, no less.

So many fine choices - Quayle, Santorum, Al Haig. I can just feel the momentum gathering.

While I was reading the Red State entry, it occurred to me that, while W may or may not be the worse President ever (I am not as familiar with the Presidency of James Buchanan as maybe I should be), Dick Cheney is without a doubt the worst Vice President ever, by orders of magnitude.