John McCain edition. I don’t want these guys to win their party back, not when DeLay/Bushism is already so close to discrediting the GOP forever, but it is refreshing to watch them try.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.
Let’s not be the monsters we hate.
Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.
If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.
This blog will pay for itself.
Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?
Damn right I heard that as a threat.
Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.
The revolution will be supervised.
Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.
Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.
Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.
Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.
Ah, the different things are different argument.
Let there be snark.
Innocent people don’t delay justice.
I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.
If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.
A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.
We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.
Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.
They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!
White supremacy is terrorism.
Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.
TheFountainHead
I think you ought to gather up all those quotes and publish them once a month here from now until November, maybe once a week as we get closer to it. Of course, adding any new idiotic things he’s likely to say as we go along.
Cris
Kara Hopkins’s string of McCain quotes reads like the transcript of a fabulous YouTube compilation. If only someone had the time and access to footage to put it all together. No, I’m not volunteering.
Zifnab
They’d have to take the axe to DeLay/Bushism if they seriously wanted to reclaim it. That said, one party systems are bad systems. I’d happily see a GOP that serves as a functioning foil to the Democratic Party rather than a magnification of all its flaws and weaknesses set up as an “alternative”.
LITBMueller
This video is pretty close, Cris.
jake
Fixed.
The Moar You Know
Fixed that to reflect current conditions.
TheFountainHead
Big Tent Democrat is not happy about our new friend Joe. Not at all. But he’s speaking for himself only.
jrg
Great list of quotes. McCain has been wrong about nearly everything in the past 7 years. This one’s a doozie:
New GOP motto: “socialize warfare, not healthcare”! The GOP has reached a level of dishonesty I previously thought was impossible. While we’re on the subject of the Bushification of the GOP, i’d say that this gem from Ben Stein dovetails nicely:
Wow. Where do people like Stein and McCain get this stuff? How on earth can the GOP, as a party, toggle between “We don’t nation build”/”We are the world’s police” and “Ivory tower multiculturalism is destroying America”/”Scientists and academics are not culturally respectful as conservatives are”.
The morons that comprise the GOP base will swallow absolutely anything. All you need to do in order to be a Republican is to “hate liberals”. These people stand for nothing other than that.
mrmobi
McCain continues to get a total free pass from the broadcast media.
He was on “Morning Joe” today. There was not a single follow-up question from any of the co-hosts. (clearly, Mika B. has been given instructions to clam up when interviewing McCain). This “interview” was almost content free, indeed, the main goal seemed to be to see how long they could make McCain smile. He was positively beaming, and why wouldn’t he be, it’s good to be the king!
I understand that Obama will be the only guest on Press the Meat Sunday.
Can we have a pool here at BJ about how much of the hour will be devoted to Rev. Wright, Minister Farrakhan, and Professor Ayers?
I’m betting 50% at least, although Timmeh might want to question Obama about whether he and his wife should be charged with child abuse for forcing their two daughters to sit through hate-speech sermons, and, of course, whether he is a Black Muslim.
Today is a particularly unhappy anniversary for me. Five years ago, while watching Mr. McFlightsuit land on an aircraft carrier and declare victory, I had a revelation. Like a punch to the face, I realized that the Iraq war was political theater to the Bush administration, and nothing else.
Previous to that, I supported the Iraq War, believed Colin Powell’s recitation of lies to the U.N., etc.
I remain deeply ashamed of that uninformed, lazy decision.
My father, who was a Goldwater Republican, then a Reagan Republican, was nonetheless a guy who had little trust in politicians (especially Nixon). Even though we agreed on little politically during most of his life, I valued his counsel more than I can say.
In his later years, he voted for Bill Clinton twice, to my delight and amazement. Were he alive today, I’m sure he’d be a Democrat.
And that’s the “particularly unhappy” part of today’s anniversary for me.
It is also the 10th anniversary of my fathers’ passing.
Here’s to you, Dad!
ThymeZone
John McCain is a complete fucking absolutely unambiguous trainwreck of a person and a candidate.
I keep saying this and yet people keep thinking that this lunatic old fart can win the coming general election.
He can’t. He is completely incompetant. His own words prove it. Pick a subject, the guy is a disaster looking for a place to happen.
Ed Drone
In honor of the day:
Turn the Boat Around
(Tune: Yellow Rose of Texas)
Our leader landed on the deck dressed in a soldier suit,
A banner stretched above his head, he looked so doggone cute.
But San Diego could be seen, right there in the background,
So the order soon was given, “Turn the boat around.”
Chorus:
It’s time to turn the boat around, that’s what the people say.
The course our leader’s setting is exactly the wrong way.
The compass reads “disaster,” he’s run us hard aground,
It’s time to fire the skipper, and then turn the boat around.
He claimed that he’d found danger, as plain as white and black,
And the source of all that danger was in far-away Iraq.
Terror, weapons, poison gas, nukular missiles, too,
All waiting, primed and ready, to use on me and you.
So we went in a-shooting, and had ‘em on the run,
With bought-and-paid-for press along, to show us all the fun.
We never found those weapons, the poison gas and such,
And the folks whose land we shot to hell don’t like us very much.
Repeat Chorus
“Stay the course,” he told us, but wouldn’t show his map;
He wants complacent citizens to go back to their nap.
To end the war in Iraq, he’s got a cunning plan –
He’ll pull the troops out one fine day – and send them to Iran!
Now, here at home, the policies are tilted toward the rich,
Big tax cuts and deficits, the good old bait and switch!
Our leader loves the rich, and puts the dollars in their fist,
But for the poor, there’s still the war, so they can just enlist!
Repeat Chorus
This is the “ship of state,” not another “photo op,”
And when it gets to going, it’s damn-all hard to stop.
But if we can turn a carrier to try to fool the press,
Then we can turn the country ‘round, and get out of this mess.
Repeat Chorus
Copyright ©2003, 2006 Bob Clayton & Ed Drone
Zifnab
Gee, almost reminds me of the entire rest of the election cycle.
gypsy howell
OT, but Holy Crap. The DC Madam “commits suicide?”
Anyone really believe she killed herself?
John S.
Those middle-class voters Hillarity says she is ‘fighting hard’ for should hear who she is really fighting for:
But Obama is an elitist!
gypsy howell
7 years? Good lord, McCain has been wrong about nearly everything his entire friggin’ life . It was difficult for me to imagine that we could have a republican nominee who was less intelligent, less intellectually curious, more inept, possibly more unethical, and more of an all-around lying sack of shit than Bush, but then along came McCain.
Tsulagi
Again, ditto.
While I would have voted for McCain in 00, I can’t stand that pandering sonofabitch now. Yep, look at all those rosy prognostications in the past from Mr. Straight Talker. While on his own website from a speech given about this time last year…
Several times I’ve heard him say in this election cycle that all during the first four years he knew it was fucked up. But how many times while he knew it was a clusterfuck did he as a senior member of a Republican controlled Congress with a seat on the Armed Services Committee call for any oversight hearings? Hearings that were the norm in past wars? Zero.
Instead he was too busy in knee-pad service to the Purple Heart bandaid and sky-fairy warriors in the Party of Bush so he could position himself with them for this presidential run. Asshole doesn’t begin to describe this bastard.
The Grand Panjandrum
Mission Accomplished. Glad to see some vets and other concerned citizens reminded the half-bright in the White House that other peoples sons and daughters are still dying.
OT: Scotty may not be able to beam us up yet, but ol’ Bones would be tickled pink. Tricorders!
SteveinSC
The fucking warmonger Bush ain’t finished yet. I think more and more that the assholes will start a war with Iran or bust. I hope they have those impeachment papers ready to go. What better way to stampede the sheeple to McInsane than a little manufactured dust-up with Iran near election time?
Delia
Neglecting the general stupidity of the concept, I’ll only remark that the Current Administration is working hard to make sure that we’re a great superpower no longer, and whatever loose ends in that endeavor they fail to tie up, McCain is sure to run straight into the ground.
Rick Taylor
Andrew Sullivan voices a similar sentiment.
I’d disagree with the last, by the way. One of the things I will say for Bush and Rove was they realized the Republican party would need minority votes in the long run. But then the Republican debates turned into a contest to see who could play the fear the illegal immigrants card the best.
Soylent Green
Same as the guy currently completing his second term. And how did he get the job, pray tell?
Notorious P.A.T.
Too bad they’re taking the entire country down with them. If only they could find a way to discredit themselves without ruining things for the rest of us as well.