McPhony

I have a theory. John McCain, still pissed off at the Republican party for hanging him out to dry in 2000 has decided to bring the party down. Destroy it completely from the inside. It was a risky move. It would cost millions and take years, but he’s done it. In just a few weeks, he will finally be able to see the country’s referendum on Republicans. Fuck with me will you? I’ll bring down the whole goddamn lot of you like Sampson praying for one last bout of strength to tople the columns.

Makes you wonder who is really running his campaign. Is it really Rick Davis making these incredibly stupid decisions or does McCain override him and make them on his own. Seems like they are on a rudderless ship. But Im not complaining, because whatever they are doing (or not doing) is working great…for us. So keep up the good work McCain.

The last half of this ad – as the camera zooms in and words start appearing next to his head – make mccain look especially old. No, I mean really old. As in, older than he normally looks. Fail!

Strange how history plays out. Had McCain been elected in 2000 we would have never heard from Karl Rove again, there would likely have never been a War in Iraq (and some would argue no 9-11). Republicans would have muddled us through these last eight years with only minor visible signs of ineptitude, and the Democratic party would likely have been permanently defeated simply due to voter apathy. If the Repugs had let him win, they would have won in the long run.Maybe we had to got through all this strife and death in order to reawaken people’s recognition of their role and responsibility to participate in our democracy.(where’d all that come from? kinda syrupy, eh?)

LFOD, yeah, ironically I was thinking the same thing last night about McCain (back before his ideological “retrofit”). Good (metahistorical) perspective. I think that your last points are good ones–not syrupy, really.Basically Bush has pretty much destroyed the party’s credibility such that “Republicans” are running on being “mavericks” and not aligning themselves with the party (it’s working in a lot of the “slower” circles of the electorate). Notice how party is rarely brought up–I think it should be. McCain himself opened up the issue last night by doing his scary “gotcha” thing when he said that Dems were in the majority on Cap. Hill for the past two years (insert Penguin-esque “Hah!? HAH?!!” here). Obama should have shot back with, “Wait a second, John, from 2001 through 2006, Republicans were in charge of all three branches of government. Your party set the policies in place–including annual budget deficits averaging X–that got us into this mess. And you’re blaming the Democratic party, which controlled Congress for two years out of the past eight? You and your party had the reins, John, and your party’s experiment failed. So, you can try to call yourself a Maverick, but last time I checked, you’re running as a Republican. It’s time to give the Democratic party a chance to lead–you had your chance and you blew it.”

twoeightnine: FYI…From NPR’s Day to Day program earlier today (“Before the debate, we spoke to undecided Ohio voter Barbara Zimmerman. We check back in with her to see if she got the answers she needed to finally make up her mind. Sort of, she says. But although she wants to vote Republican, the anger in the GOP candidate’s brow left her a little worried.” (NPR’s Day to Day, 10.16.08)”I would love to vote Republican. However, I’m watching McCain’s body language and I’m looking at him and he appeared to be so angry and so frustrated. And what came into my head was ‘how are you going to deal people from other countries who have totally different cultures if you can’t even deal with another American sitting in the same room with you…on a relaxed, educated level? That’s what bothers me, that’s what bothers me big time. Whereas Obama does come across as definitely more stately, more of a statesman, more of a…someone you would want in the White House. That’s my dilemma; I would love to vote Republican..hahah…but I’m just not convinced that would fly…hahah. So it’s almost like I’m going to toss a coin.”http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95787075):“Before the debate, we spoke to undecided Ohio voter Barbara Zimmerman. We check back in with her to see if she got the answers she needed to finally make up her mind. Sort of, she says. But although she wants to vote Republican, the anger in the GOP candidate’s brow left her a little worried.”BZ: “I would love to vote Republican. However, I’m watching McCain’s body language and I’m looking at him and he appeared to be so angry and so frustrated. And what came into my head was ‘how are you going to deal people from other countries who have totally different cultures if you can’t even deal with another American sitting in the same room with you…on a relaxed, educated level? That’s what bothers me, that’s what bothers me big time. Whereas Obama does come across as definitely more stately, more of a statesman, more of a…someone you would want in the White House. That’s my dilemma; I would love to vote Republican..hahah…but I’m just not convinced that would fly…hahah. So it’s almost like I’m going to toss a coin.”

His prosody is the most awful thing I’ve ever heard. Christ. He’s the grumpy old man awkwardly forced to talk at his five-year-old grandkids.

Phony as..Prezint GWB blathering about how his War shouldn’t be micromanaged by Pulitishins in Worshinton.But McCain knows a lot.McCain knows how to…He has a plan to…Because he fucking knows…The audacity to say: I’ll fix it. My friends, I’ll fix it because I know how. I know… You’ll see. Just elect me.That One is kicking my ass, and I know you’re angry and afraid. I know. I know.