He really is running for it:
Via Oliver.
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Reminds me of this.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.
So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.
A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals
If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.
You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.
They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.
Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.
Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.
We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.
A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.
Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.
Elections aren’t won by handwringing, cowering, and/or bashing your own candidates.
Black Jesus loves a paper trail.
They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.
The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.
Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.
That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.
We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.
This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.
Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.
I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.
Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.
Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.
It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!
Tiparillo
But did he look into Putin’s eyes to get a sense of his soul?
Jay B.
Well, to be fair Tiparillo, once he matches a set of eyes with the country they lead he rarely forgets it. But sometimes he gets a bit confused.
Leo
I don’t think he’s running for Bush’s third term. His views are much more aligned with Cheney than Bush.
laneman
so ….. what’s with the jacket?
sorry, you’re a fossil, not a bomber. I am tired of the faux symbolism of nothing.
lex sigh
Leo
Although, I will admit, his apparent level of competence is more Bush than Cheney.
Tiparillo
Hey Jay give Senator Magoo a break – everyone is always getting Angela Merkel confused with Vladimir Putin
Tiparillo
Laneman – I thought that was a Members Only jacket for moment
lampwick
Wait til McCain tries to give Putin a backrub.
Louise
So who got the backrub?
John S.
Not Bush. I don’t think he’s ever tried to rub Vladimir’s shoulders…
patroclus
I don’t understand how McCain confusing Russia and Germany (and their respective leaders) is going to help us accomplish the crucial mission of delivering bottled hot water to dehydrated babies…
Tsulagi
“President Putin of Germany”? This guy’s Alzheimers is speeding up; I’m not sure he’s going to last until November.
Or was he thinking of continuing the Bush tradition of unsolicited neck rubs of German chancellors and Putin came to mind as his fave? His way of getting in touch with the base?
Rosali
I guess they’ll have to rethink their ad campaign that says that Obama is gaffe-prone.
Glocksman
That’d be the same base ‘Wide Stance’ Larry Craig appeals to? :)
Third Eye Open
For some reason…I expected him to burst into an acapella version of Neil Diamond’s, “Heartlight”
“I just made a friend
A friend is someone you need
But now that he had to go away
I still feel the words that he might say
Turn on your heartlight
Let it shine wherever you go
Let it make a happy glow
For all the world to see
Turn on your heartlight
In the middle of a young boy’s dream
Don’t wake me up too soon
Gonna take a ride across the moon
You and me”
sivapith
Merkel go the backrub.
Jon H
“Wait til McCain tries to give Putin a backrub.”
Putin demands a happy ending.
moeman
What about Poland!?
mark
What’s with the bomber jacket? Does he get the chills a lot?
Balakirev
I’m glad to see that McCain has found an enemy so insidious it can only be attacked through time travel.
Tsulagi
Also another little point, “President” isn’t the correct title anymore for Putin. He’s now Prime Minister Putin. Under the new Russian constitution he couldn’t have a third consecutive presidential term so he had the new president make him prime minister and assumed that office last month.
So not only did he get the country wrong, he got the position wrong. Or the wrong name for the current Russian president. Cue feeble McCain voice from last Tuesday: “That’s not experience you can believe in.”
Conservatively Liberal
Of course! McCain wants those people on his side because a base with a wide stance is harder to knock over. Plus the wide stance makes you look strong and manly, but most importantly it says ‘Show me your hand, and I will show you mine’.
McCain vaguely remembers flying a plane, and a bomber jacket is associated with flying. Close enough for government work.
Well, if the ‘wide stance’ fails to impress, you have to be ready to be a ‘hands on’ kind of guy.
Just Some Fuckhead
What’s with the lousy camera angle preventing me from swooning over his codpiece?
Joyce
I wonder if he knows his previous statements are contradicting his campaign commercial?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBobsMD7DBM
Conservatively Liberal
Chris Matthews requested that. Commenting admiringly about the ‘onions’ on a guy is his job.
/retch
Dennis - SGMM
He meant to say, “Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany.”
ThymeZone
Worst.Candidate.Ever.
This guy is just a giant disappointment machine.
Dennis - SGMM
And give him a break; he just couldn’t remember the name of the current Tsar of all the Russias.
eric
Have any of you guys gone back to taylormarsh since Clinton dropped? It’s positively heartwarming over there. There’s still some dead-enders (knock on wood) in the comments but I actually don’t feel like killing people when I visit anymore.
Goddamn, Obama’s gonna wreck it in November.
GSD
It’s like that song, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Lichtenstein.
-GSD
demimondian
Goddamn it, GSD, John McCain didn’t sing that. Somebody else with the same name, voice, and appearance did.
croatoan
Colonel Tigh?
Mike35
Ok, I’ll pull the threadjack and point us all to CSPAN where Kucinich is on article 18 of 35 in his articles of impeachment of Dubya.
asl
Since John banned ageist remarks, I find these blooper clips as refreshing as a cold mist on a 100-degree day.
passerby
McCain continues these ridiculous gaffes. Lindsey Graham came out and said “absolutely” Mccain policies will be the same as Bush (counter to what McCain said). The poles still indicate that a hefty percentage will STILL vote McCain despite his campaign being a JOKE.
I gotta believe this disaster is intentional.
What is the GOP up to? Who will they nominate at the convention? Is this a psychological operation to determine the loyalty of their electorate?
All I got is guesses. But, I am sure about one thing, this wreck of a campaign is no accident.
T
Third Eye Open
RawStory has the link to the first ten minutes of Kucinich bringing articles of impeachment against Bush/Cheney.
I can’t figure out whether this helps the Obama campaign, or risks sucking the oxygen from the nascent General election.
Either way, I appreciate his bollocks and I will reward him with money and scooby snacks
Third Eye Open
Mike35,
Sorry boss, your thread didn’t show up while I was typing, carry on.
Warren Terra
This is off topic, but I have to mention that, as I consider Balloon Juice to be pretty much a go-to site for Political Snark and the Political Snarkable, it’s just a crying shame that there isn’t more mention here of Mary Grabar’s column. To prove my point, here’s the first passage Hilzoy, of Obsidian Wings, chooses to highlight:
wasabi gasp
War. Hero.
S’all good.
And besides, this is really a failure of Lieberman.
jake
Get the hook, hit the gong, pour pennies in the Straight Talk Express’ radiator. Just. Make. It. Stop!
No, no, no, no, no. Only Democrats make gaffes (when they aren’t making blatantly anti-American/troop/Christian/family/democracy statements).
Republicans are always “misheard,” or “misunderstood” by the dim-witted proletariat. Of course the poor dears are often the victims of Democrats and the liberal MSM who take their comments out of context or quibble about syntax. Hey, for all we know John McCane was talking about the future (you know, the world in 2013) when Putin will be the President of Germany.
Seriously, if I thought the McCrankster was just an old guy who’s wits were starting to wander I’d feel a little sorry for him. But he’s a GOPer and none of those assholes could locate their dicks with a map, because they don’t need to find their dicks. They’ve got Joe Lieberman to do that for him.
jake
Get the hook, hit the gong, pour pennies in the Straight Talk Express’ radiator. Just. Make. It. Stop!
No, no, no, no, no. Only Democrats make gaffes (when they aren’t making blatantly anti-American/troop/Christian/family/democracy statements).
Republicans are always “misheard,” or “misunderstood” by the dim-witted proletariat. Of course the poor dears are often the victims of Democrats and the liberal MSM who take their comments out of context or quibble about syntax. Hey, for all we know John McCane was talking about the future (you know, the world in 2013) when Putin will be the President of Germany.
Seriously, if I thought the McCrankster was just an old guy who’s wits were starting to wander I’d feel a little sorry for him. But he’s a GOPer and none of those assholes could locate their dicks with a map, because they don’t need to find their dicks.
They’ve got Joe Lieberman to do that for them.
cleek
i went to sign up, but they were all out of virgins. so i thought i’d take one of the pre-enjoyed units. nope, all out of them, too. fuck. this speaks volumes about his readiness to take office, IMO. if he can’t supply virgins for all who want one, how is going to provide health care?
i’ll still support Obama, but he owes me, big.
laneman
I’m forced to reiterate my previous comment – lex sigh – McSame isn’t even a joke anymore, if he ever was, it’s pathetic. Oh, kinda like shrub in 2000 and 2004.
Jon H
That’s not a codpiece, his depends are bunching.
Duros Hussein 62
He meant to say, “Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany.”
Who he met personally.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
i went to sign up, but they were all out
Well then you’re obviously not one of the advanced troops. You need to practice ensconcing until you get better at it.
What I want to know is, how did the Obavant-guard overlook the liquor cabinet?
Did somebody hide the keys inside a hollow bust of Edmund Burke? Maybe Sully would know.
Conservative professors usually have some damn fine scotch, and I heard you can find cognac and cigars in the Deans’ office, or at least that is what Bill Buckley told me back in the day.
Jon H
Again, I must insist that someone should set up a stand outside the GOP convention selling purple heart band-aids.
It’d be an awesome sting. Some GOP fools would buy and wear them, in memory of the great larfs they had mocking John Kerry. But it could be made to look REALLY BAD for the GOP this time around.
The Other Steve
Google “songbird mccain”
abiodun
He needs the jacket, it is cold indoors! You tend to lose temperature control with age.