No candidate in recent history will infuriate his party’s base like John McCain.
Seriously, he hit on every hot button that has pissed off hardline Republicans in the last ten years. It wouldn’t be my first choice to spend valuable convention time emphatically reminding the faithful of McCain’s heterodoxy on global warming, campaign finance and judicial nominations.
***Update***
I forgot to mention free trade and immigration. And oh yeah, Joementum made a major applause line out of praising Bill Clinton. That should play well with the dittoheads.
Davis X. Machina
Should we tell Joe that they’re using him, that they don’t actually like him, or just go with it?
Cris
Not to mention immigration and free trade. He really did cover a greatest hits.
mercurino
plant
D. Mason
I hate to say it because I’m no fan of Lieberman but this speech sounded more like he was having a laugh at their expense.
KC
Boring.
TR
Add this to the fact that Thompson talked about how McCain used to date a stripper.
With friends like these….
Just Some Fuckhead
I liked when he said nice things about Bill Clinton and the crowd couldn’t figure out whether to clap or boo.
Eric
Alright. The truth is out. Joe Lieberman is actually running a double-secret insurgency against the Republicans. He was only pretending to abandon the Democrats…he’s been a Democrat all along!!
Fucking. Train. Wreck.
r€nato
Fuck Lieberman.
Joshua Norton
Just when you think they’ve hit bottom, they dig deeper and find a whole subterranean level of crazy.
Now there’s people claiming that Palin knows all about Russia and N. Korea through osmosis
Os-freaking-mosis.
Like plants.
Really.
I can smell the flop sweat through my speakers.
Joshua Norton
Just when you think they’ve hit bottom, they dig deeper and find a whole subterranean level of crazy.
Now there’s people claiming that Palin knows all about Russia and N. Korea through osmosis
Os-freaking-mosis.
Like plants.
Really.
I can smell the flop sweat through my speakers.
TheFountainHead
Apparently Sarah Pallin has a pastor who says some not very nice things about Jews.
Where’s Sean Hannity when you need him?
Andrew
I was waiting for Rick Astley to pop out and start singing “Never Gonna Give You Up.”
TR
I’m starting to wonder if we’ll see a convention bounce this week for Obama.
r€nato
I don’t know about that but he does do a pretty good impersonation of a colostomy bag.
SamFromUtah
I’m starting to wonder if we’ll see a convention bounce this week for Obama.
I was thinking the same thing – only as a convention dip for McSame.
mercurino
The Flame of Florida
cindy must have been loving that one.
FAMILY VALUES, BITCHES
Conservatively Liberal
What I got a laugh at was Thompson talking about McCain’s time in the service and how much of a troublemaker he was. Not only that, but he was the heade troublemaker.
Being 894th out of 899 in his class in the service, he had to be doing something other than his studies, that’s for damn sure. No wonder he crashed so many planes, he never learned to fly them.
Conservatively Liberal
head even…lol.
SGEW
Well, come on. Who here hasn’t dated a stripper?
. . .
What?
Ned R.
Dating != getting a lap dance, alas.
Ninerdave
I listened to Joe on the way home, aside from the lusty applause as he came out (I’m assuming the audience was hoping for another Zell Miller), the rest of the applause lines were tepid at best.
zuzu's petals
I wonder how he felt about that preacher closing his prayer “in Jesus’ name, amen.”
Dennis - SGMM
“The shorter Joe Leberman?” If they let all of the shit out of him he’d be the shortest man in the world.
zuzu's petals
That’s actually true, according to one of his old Navy pals.
The guy was being interviewed on the CNN special, “McCain Revealed.” He said McCain spent so much time partying, he never bothered to read the study manuals.
He crashed his first plane on water, and when it sank to the bottom, he just sat there trying to figure out where the jettison switch was, ’cause he’d never bothered to read the manual. He finally broke open the canopy and saved himself. Sheer dumb luck.
zuzu's petals
Oh God, who could forget.
SPITBAWWWWWLSSSSS ! ! !
nwithers
I really, Really wished that I said somthing after the Palin nomination. From what we have seen of Joe on the progessive side, he’s all buddy-buddy (while still being so oleaginous that you want to take a shower afterward) as long as you give him more power, but if you mess with his plans for more personal power he will turn on you in a heartbeat in such a way that he doesn’t quite make the party leaders chuck him over the side like a barrel of rotten salt mackerel. I was half expecting him to shank the republicans after he was denied the veep spot, and he didn’t dissapoint. (at least what I understand from the comments, I can’t stand to hear the man’s voice)
Marshall
Well, come on. Who here hasn’t dated a stripper?
Never dated a stripper, but I used to have some as friends – as a big guy, they would sometimes ask me to come along for protection when they got their pay (in cash, of course, thus the need for protection).
Does that count ?
DBrown
This is a joke, right? McInsane only says one thing that matters to the loony right – he will over-turn a woman’s right to choice and hence, they will lick his asshole day and night and suck his cock until they come.