Now, 18 months later, McCain seems pretty clearly to have been right.

Things look pretty dreamy with your eyes full of pie.

What!?! Things are going swimmingly! Forget the Titanic, these guys are trying to repaint the Hindenberg: “No could have expected the blah, blah, blah…”

Shitbags. When will the market, the sweet, sweet market, “correct” itself and put these guys in the jobs they perform best — fluffing gay cowboy snuff films — and I apologize to all the gay cowboys out there…

Can McCain get voters to consider his leadership in this instance, and get them to ask when Obama took a similarly courageous stand on any issue? Yes he can — but it’s not clear if his campaign will be much help.

So, McCain is going to be able to accomplish this great moment in leadership-considering, but his campaign is the problem? Who hired all those guys, anyway? Does this make any sense outside of Kristol-land? “We have a great candidate, but his whole campaign sucks. Vote for him anyway!”

I refuse to click the link but I will say this–I think Kristol is on to something here which is that in most modern republican campaigns since Nixon (but not including Nixon) the idea of the candidate actually having any leadership, or ideas, or control over his staff is absurd. I took one look at mccain’s green backdrop and realized that the republican kingmakers had just decided to drop him like a hot potato. As my mother observed when I pointed this out to her *the republican party and its major owners have more than enough money to have bussed in an entire town to listen to Mccain* if they wanted to–more than enough money to have paid for Karl Rove to teleport backstage to orchestrate an attractive backdrop of living babies sewn together as a flag. If they didn’t do that for Mccain he’s not their last best hope. They’ve lost all hope and are just conserving money for the next round of oppositional defiance from the remaining republican angry adolescents in congress. OK, she didn’t say all the last part. But she did say that about the village.

aimai

Yes boys and girls…it’s Kristol the Klown day at TAGG’s place…http://www.tagg-theangrygayguy.com

… Yet in the last year we have seen the success of that plan as violence has fallen to a four-year low.

…18 months later, McCain seems pretty clearly to have been right.

Five years on and no American official can make the seven mile drive from Baghdad International Airport to the capitol. But, they do have a statistic that says things are much, much better. The Iraqis who would prefer to have peace, electricity, jobs, water, medicine, schools, will no doubt be heartened by this statistic. Kristol certainly is.

You know, these past eight years of adventures with the neo-cons look more and more like a gay cowboy snuff film: you’ve got Haggard, Fole, Craig and all the other foot tappers playing the part of teh gay, Dubya and Dick “birdshot” Cheney playing the valiant and randy cowboys (a cameo appearance by Ted Nugent is just eye candy), and four thousand brave Americans playing the part of teh snuff. Straight to video, of course, but a very decent release from GOP Productions.

In spite of Kristol’s hard-on at the mere thought of it, we’re not going to get to see the production of the sequel starring John McCain as the rancid old coot down the road who turns out to have quite a thing for the young girls in the village… maybe they’ll do something necro instead, involving Reagan’s corpse, Ann Althouse and Peggy Noonan (“Oh, Ronny, I always knew you’d come back to save us. My hero! But wait, what’s that smell?”)

Wouldn’t it be funny if the NYT doesn’t need to issue any corrections for Kristol’s column this week?

I think both the Kristol-class pundits and McCain’s campaign were blindsided by the by the withering of their guy in the presidential spotlight. And when the press starts hammering on the dozen or so gaffs a day, watch the above pundit group call for a putsch at the gooper convention. It’ll be textbook GOP party discipline.

Tbogg should write Cliff Notes.

Well, they haven’t made much of a show of covering his gaffes yet, but perhaps once they catch the scent of tar, feathers, and pickforks, they might suddenly get the hint that the populace is rather upset, don’t you think?

dude,

with all the movie speculation going on in the very next thread
you were THIS close to the ultimate screenplay title …

MCCAIN: THE WITHERING

The scent of tar will be states turning blue in the polls…

millhous451

I’d be excited about the title and project if Altman was still alive to direct it.

Next time, I’ll just order coffee.

Can I take him his coffee? Please, oh pleeeeeease!?!

gee, I just love this candid photo of the bloody Kristol.

The attacks often concluded, “That’s not change we can believe in.”

I can’t believe he forgets to mention that demented smile that accompanied the statement each time.

face it, republicans …

you candidate needs smiling lessons