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Statorama (to himself) on November 5th:"I'll bide my time for 10 months, then I'll show 'em!!!"
Not if we don't know. I'm certain the Sunday gabfests have already designed "Weekend at Bernie's" style tactics to combat it.
Maybe that can be his slogan in twenty twelve."McCain - I'm Still Here"
Truer words have never been spoken. People seem to have forgotten how much damage Bush did to this country. Or they never wanted to admit it in the first place.
Maybe so, maybe not.
Interesting article
254 days McCain has managed to stay alive and it's seen as a victory for his supporters. Congrats guys. 
For the record, I would've voted for Al Gore, John Edwards, my barber, my cat, a broken bowling pin, a deflated innertube, the integer 5, a ghost, every misspelling on the English version of Chinese restaurant's menu, or the scar on my ankle before I voted for a Republican in 2008. Sucks to be you, John McCain!
Just trying to stick it in the faces of people that were so scared that McCain would croak and this country would be *gasp* run by a strong willed woman.Can't have that. We'd rather have a self-avowed socialist who can't make a decision without a teleprompter telling him to do it....just because he has a wang.53% of the voting public is getting the crappy government they deserve...the rest of us shouldn't have to suffer for their mistake.
You really think that the problem people had with Palin was that she was a "strong willed woman"? Typically, the appearance of decisiveness and strong will are favorable for positions of leadership...Just trying to stick it in the faces of people that were so scared that McCain would croak and this country would be *gasp* run by a strong willed woman.Can't have that. We'd rather have a self-avowed socialist who can't make a decision without a teleprompter telling him to do it....just because he has a wang.
53% of the voting public is getting the crappy government they deserve...the rest of us shouldn't have to suffer for their mistake.
True, but having a ###### is a liability.You really think that the problem people had with Palin was that she was a "strong willed woman"? Typically, the appearance of decisiveness and strong will are favorable for positions of leadership...Just trying to stick it in the faces of people that were so scared that McCain would croak and this country would be *gasp* run by a strong willed woman.Can't have that. We'd rather have a self-avowed socialist who can't make a decision without a teleprompter telling him to do it....just because he has a wang.
254 days McCain has managed to stay alive and it's seen as a victory for his supporters. Congrats guys.
53% of the voting public is getting the crappy government they deserve...the rest of us shouldn't have to suffer for their mistake.
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that people didn't vote for McCain because they were worried about Palin being president. But it's just as likely if not more likely that people didn't vote for McCain because choosing Palin as a VP candidate showed amazingly bad judgment. I know you hate Obama, but frankly, he could make a sex tape with one of Malia's classmates and it would still show better judgment than choosing the summer 2008 version of Sarah Palin to be a Vice-Presidential candidate.
She's smarter than Joe Biden dude.
Captain Maverick shuffled himself to the right the second he heard what a tea partier was.I don't see how anyone could think that McCain's post-election behavior has cast him a good light. Whatever personal courage he showed to the Viet Cong, he has the political backbone of a turnip.
Still alive though
And he has a cute daughter. I'm not made of stone.Still alive though
You may think that- heck, it might even be true- but I'm pretty sure that Joe Biden could have named a newspaper and a Supreme Court case if Katie Couric asked him to in the summer of 2008.
I'm not sure if meghan mccain is "cute" or not, but she hates Sarah Palin so that bumps her up a point or two.And he has a cute daughter. I'm not made of stone.Still alive though
Joe Biden could plagiarize that newspaper or Supreme Court case.
Personally, I disliked the summer 2008 version of Palin less than the current incarnation.
and she has nice cans.I'm not sure if meghan mccain is "cute" or not, but she hates Sarah Palin so that bumps her up a point or two.And he has a cute daughter. I'm not made of stone.Still alive though
Agreed, but the Summer 2008 version is a less defensible choice. The current version, while obviously negative, hateful and decisive, at least would probably bother to learn some basic facts about national government and read up on current events before kicking off a campaign for vice president of the United States. Or at least she's got people around to tell her to do so now.
He does now. Up until he started campaigning for Prez he still did. If he hadn't turned into a spineless sounding board for Rush's GOP agenda and pick the biggest idiot in politics (since Quayle and before O'Donnel, but now back in front of the would be Wiccan) as his running mate I would've voted for him. My biggest disappointment in political history, in my life, was the about face of the "honest to goodness hero in an time in which they are sorely needed" as Letterman put it. And still amazingly after the campaign he had the most impressive political speech I've heard, again in my lifetime/ Unfortunately all the people that still put their faith in McCain in 08 just didn't listen to his plea of helping America in bipartisanship, especially the leaders of the GOP who immediately decreed that they would oppose Obama at every turn. I think McCain could've been a great President, but we'll never know and that's unfortunately entirely his fault and I hope his long legacy of heroism and straight shooting is his legacy and not his poor choices at the end of his career.scoobygang said:
Even in his "straight talk' schtick, you were being played....
In 2000
Why do you assume the 2000 McCain was genuine? John McCain was a reliable Reagan conservative coming into 2000. By all accounts, his record and policy proposals placed him to the right of George W. Bush. But he saw a craving for bipartisanship and built his reputation around campaign finance reform. The Bush campaign pulled it's dirty tricks and McCain then spent four years significantly farther to the left than he had ever been. When it became clear that Bush couldn't be challenged in 2004, he tacked back to the right to be in position for 08. He tacked further right in the primaries and then back to the center for the general election. Then he tacked further right than ever, including on an issue where his "moderate" stance was well documented in immigration once he was challenged on the right. The guy has always been a political opportunist. Political courage is a different animal than personal courage.
I can't imagine what gives you the impression that she's learned any basic facts about national government. As far as people around her to tell her to learn that stuff (or teach her that stuff), I'd put that on McCain's campaign people moreso than Palin herself.TobiasFunke said:
My memory isn't short. Replace the words all you want - I believe the statement no matter who's put in it right now.
DOW 25,000, S&P hits five digits, unemployment rate actually goes negative (more jobs available than people, we have to quickly legalize the underground immigrant population to meet demands), housing market roars back to life, income taxes slashed, and free public wi-fi for all would have been accomplished by now, so he'd probably just put his feet up on that big desk and coast through the rest of his term.
Outlives Bin Laden
I don't see how I could be better off today. But thanks.
Maybe, maybe not. We will never know.However if you want to blame someone for me not voting republican in the last presidential election you should blame McCain for his ridiculous running mate pick. That move cost him a TON of votes from the millions of undecided voters like myself.
How would she have been any different than Biden? Seriously.
Do you think there would be a debt ceiling issue if McCain were president? Or would it have been passed with no issues like it was 7 times under Bush?
Someone's been reading the ticklers on my Lotus Notes calendar.
