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Yay, technology! Yay, free exchange of information! Yay, I get to point this out regarding John McCain’s attempt to shut down and reboot a dying campaign:
Mickey Edwards, Princeton lecturer and former Republican congressman:
Oh, brother. What idiot came up with this stunt?
It ranks somewhere on the stupidity scale between plain silly and numbingly desperate. McCain and Obama are both members of the senate and they’re both able to help craft a solution if they wish to do so without putting the presidential campaign on hold; after all, I’m sure congressional leaders would be willing to accept their calls if they have some important insights to impart. And while one of them will eventually become president, neither one is president yet, nor is either one a member of the congressional leadership; I’m confident that somehow the administration and the other 533 members of congress will be able to muddle through without tapping into the superior wisdom and intellect of their nominees. Sorry, john; it really sounds like you’re afraid to debate. This sounds like the sort of ploy we used to use in junior high school elections.
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This was purely a Hail Mary pass. Unfortunately for McCain, nobody wanted to catch it.
Joseph Nye said it for me:
And apparently Kevin Madden either doesn’t know McCain was in the Navy or he thinks the Navy has generals. I can see why Romney is watching from the sidelines.
I just got a whiff of flopsweat.
Whew!
Shorter McCain Campaign:
[hit in arm with golf ball, waits three seconds]Ooh! Ooh! My arm is broken!
You gotta love Mickey Edwards’ take — it’s quality snark right there, from one who used to sip the kool-aid with McCain at the GOP high table.
This mavericky stunt by McCain really is something else — can’t help but wonder if he and the Army of Lobbyists running his campaign have gamed thru all the possible scenarios… like, what if Obama calls his bluff, says “no” and he and Biden show up as agreed to debate no-one in particular? After Palin so lovingly flipped the media the bird at the UN the other day they’ll probably be inclined to simply run their cameras without her presence. And while ol’ Krusty is busy saving the economy with the duct tape from the basement in house #4, Obama will have an hour of prime time to lay out an actual economic plan. Should make for some interesting viewing…
Keep swinging, McCain, at this rate and with your aim you’re likely to knock yourself out of the running before November rolls around.
Well I’ll have you dirty fucking hippies know that Jonah Goldberg, leading intellectual of the Imperious Right Wing thinks you’re all doody-heads and this move by McCain is the greatest political tactic EVAH!
EAT IT! Losers … Just a taste of Jonah (and yes ladies, that’s an entendre, not sure if it’s doubled or not) before the link to Tom’s place …
The McCain Leadership Factor…
This is the greatest single act of responsibility ever taken by a presidential candidate and rivals President Eisenhower saying, ‘I will go to Korea.’
http://tehipitetom.blogspot.com/2008/09/lol.html
Hey how can we miss you if you’re not gone? :- )
McCain is a sidekick instead of a maverick alright. I don’t know whether it’s in the mold of Frank Burns or Dwight Shrute. But one of those high-strung big-idea types who make for many laughs.
Talk about talking down the economy. All we have to fear is fear-mongering itself.
That’s Just What I Said
Palin is proving that “that thing you do with your tongue” may not be sufficient qualification to be vice-president.
If it didn’t mean our kids’ll be fighting over roadkill before too long, this would all just be good fun and games. Check out this nugget from Forbes.com, hardly a snarky site, on that magic $700bn number that’s been thrown about by Paulson:
“In fact, some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure Treasury would use to buy up bad debt, are fuzzy. ‘It’s not based on any particular data point,’ a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. ‘We just wanted to choose a really large number.’”
Seriously, that’s like pre-school: “yeah, well *my* Dad has a gazillion billion dollars…” Sheesh, first Bush hired heckuva-job Brownie to do disaster management, even though his only skill was wanking off race horses, and now we see he hired someone equally qualified to run the economy. It just boggles the mind.
Another shorter McCain:
“And the people who knocked down
these buildingsthis economy will hear all of us soon!”I hear McCain is planning to dress up as POTUS for Halloween…
“Let’s see…. 138 million goes into $700 billion–”
“Moshi moshi?”
“Hey! Someone fix this damn Blackberry so I can use the calculator function! I think I just called f*ckin’ Japan, again!
I know why he’s Palining today. I just saw the Fox polls…I’d be flailing about too. Actually, I would be dignified in defeat, and drag as many GOP senators with me as I could…(hint,hint asshole.)
I almost forgot. I cannot recall a worse day for a presidential candidate. Yes there was Eagleton, and swift boats, but this was all self-inflicted wounds. Amazing. Between the wolf-killers mondo diablo interview and the crypt keeper turning to dust in front of our eyes, wow.
Didn’t he tell his handlers to keep him out of direct sunlight?
As I sit planning my emergency plan for when the black helicopters appear to maintain Law & Order during the McPalin coronation I have to say the new FOX News poll numbers give me reason to smile. “Kids, can you say ‘campaign self-destruction’? I knew you could.”
Young Krusty McCain:
“Mom, I can’t do my homework ‘cuz my friends spent all our allowance!”
Free Wi-Fi in SD Airport? Nah, can’t be.