One could honestly wonder whose side Sen. John McCain is on this election. Yesterday, McCain gave Mitt Romney a bit of unsolicited (and unhinged) advice on how to beat Barack Obama: do what I did in 2008. McCain went on CBS This Morning and said that the best thing Romney could do it to pick Sarah Palin as a running mate. He appears to be making a joke but one wonders what is more interesting: the fact that McCain might suggest it or that his prior running mate is now an obvious joke as a disastrous choice for a candidate.
When asked to suggest some names on Wednesday, McCain initially offered only one: “I think it should be Sarah Palin.” he laughs at the thought of it.
Palin quit her job as governor of Alaska before completing her first term and started a reality show instead. She has made millions ridiculing “intellectuals” and wrapping herself in a proud cloak of ignorance on policy issues. As a result, she has become one of the most polarizing figures in American politics. Yet that is the person McCain wants Romney to pick to run in what would at best be a close election.
Despite widespread views that Palin cost McCain critical percentage points in the 2008 race, McCain long seemed to have embraced a clinical form of denial and refused to accept that he made a colossal mistake. Of course, it would immediately improve the employment numbers by guaranteeing work for Tina Fey.
For my part, I believe it is the most inspired suggestion since Christopher Walken insisted that what was missing from the Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear The Reaper” was a cow bell.
Source: CBS
Gene, True enough but they might look like they are competing for upper class twit of the year.
Oh, make no mistake, I said “tactically”, Smom. I wasn’t endorsing him. lol He just looks moderate enough on paper to more salable than most of the names mentioned to this point.
It would definitely be the dream ticket for the very wealthy white male, anon nurse.
Thanks for the information/link, Swarthmore mom.
Gene, His ties to the Bush family are deep.
Now there’s one that has some independent/moderate appeal, Smom. Tactically, probably the best suggestion so far.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/74896.html “Right now the name on the lips of most GOP strategists is Ohio senator and former George W. Bush administration official Rob Portman.”
TD,
“…drop the Mitt which means My in Swedish. We will see how a snowball has a chance in Haiti.”
Mitt also means “middle”. Suit him better?
And a snowball in Haiti has about the same chance as selling one in Stockholm today. We had a snowstorm an hour ago. Happy Easter Bunny to you too.
Speaking of loaned things: You’ve heard of the drink called Mai Thai, it became popular after coming from mainland USA to Hawaii. Well, we’ve got a Thai carry-away only a couple of blocks from me with thai man and wife cooking and a Swedish lady fronting the cashregister.
It’s obviously called Mai Thai to get the interests of those from here who were in Thailand and drank many Mai thais there on the beach or bar.
So, what’s the point?
Mai Thai, means in Thai “not thai”.
Mai means simply “No or not”
Mai dee, no good, mai aou, no have, mai dai, not true, etc.
So I learned some market Thai in ’65.
Just for the record from someone in AZ who should know:
Mitt’s grandpa made his in Mexico starting and running a plantation. Whether it was a slave plantation can be discussed. So, if Mitt came from money, it wasn’t old money.
I never have forgiven the North Vietnamese for releasing Mad Dog John McCain — at any altitude less than 10,000 feet, without a parachute. They sure got back at us with that move.
I always thought that McCain picked Sarah Palin for a running mate because he needed someone to lend intelligence, integrity, humanity, and vision to his ticket, at least as far as he understood those qualities. He does like to “joke” sometimes, though, like when he goes around drooling: “bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.” Hilarious stuff. Every time I can’t avoid seeing his lips move while he exhales lies, I think:
“Up Yours John McCain”
Well, “Up Yours!” Mad Dog John McCain,
And what’s that stench I smell?
Why could it be an albatross
That you wear like a bell:
A dead, decaying necklace that
Suits leper losers well?
I do hope that you keep it up
Attacking us who learned
In Southeast Asia lessons that
You’ve only ever spurned
An asinine amnesiac,
Your coming loss you’ve earned
That fetid, feathered bird you wear
So proudly on your chest
Sure ought to help you win two states
And that’s about the best
That fools like you could hope to win
While losing all the rest
Just like a bomber pilot you
Just shit on those below
And never see the ground beneath
Where people you don’t know
Look up and curse the vapor trail
From hot air that you blow
And do team up with Holy Joe
The Judas Lie-berman
Who trashes “his own party” for
The Faux News Murdoch clan
And Zionist Likudniks who
Promote the fascist plan
Each day we’ve lost two more GIs
Through years that number four
Now with your “surge” you’ve doubled that
With killed and maimed galore
Among Iraqis — Afghans, too —
And still you cry for more!
You have no honor left to lose
You sold that long ago
For dreams of fighting ‘Nam again
And just as badly, so
Your plans for poor Iraq amount
To nothing we don’t know
You’ve nothing new to add of worth,
Just more of what we’ve had:
A litany of lies and death
And “leadership” so bad
That more of what you offer could
But make more widows sad
Please go away and save us all
The boredom of your screeds
We’ve seen and heard enough from George
And all his lousy deeds
We really do not care for you
And your pathetic needs
So “Up Yours!” Mad Dog John McCain,
And you can kiss my butt
Your stupid brain has slipped some gears
And left you in a rut
Espousing war that no one wants —
Except the senile nut
Michael Murry, The Misfortune Teller, Copyright 2007
i would say romney/bachman but he can’t run because he’s canadian.
Never have I worn such an outfit but I would have to go with the blue tourmaline as it matches my eye color better. lol