Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Everybody saw this coming.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

The words do not have to be perfect.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

This blog will pay for itself.

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  5. 5.

    ThymeZone

    Many jokes will be made, but I have been watching this guy for you for 25 years so you don’t have to … and I think he is actually losing it. His mental acuity is going downhill fast, and as much as I hate to see this happen to any person, I think it is time to make an issue of it. I really don’t think this man can serve out a 4-year term in the job he seeks.

    And of course, if he gets that job (which is highly Selassie, I mean, unlikely … heh …) we know what happens next.

    Mrs. Mooseburger gets the job.

  6. 6.

    upgrayedd

    I can’t wait for his post-campaign ghost-written book: "Also, My Friends: A Message To My Fellow Prisoners, Also That One"

  8. 8.

    Justin

    The strain of campaigning against a younger, more charismatic opponent, after you’ve turned the press against you, would buckle most men, let alone a 72 year old trying to deal with the cognitive dissonance of imagining oneself to be a good, honourable man running the sleaziest campaign ever.

    I wonder how intrade would price the odds of him stroking out before November 5th. I keep expecting him to drop an N-bomb on camera now.

  10. 10.

    Tsulagi

    Sounds like senior moments McCain having a Back to the Future moment in his personal time bubble. I await to hear him refer to Obama as Charlie.

  13. 13.

    raff

    Palin’s reaction struck me as odd. She clearly hears McCain’s slip-up, but does nothing. She could have tapped McCain’s shoulder gently, whispered in his ear & McCain could have made an endearing joke about it. But she let him go.

    At least Joe Leiberman had the sense to correct McCain when neccessary.

  14. 14.

    w vincentz

    Cindy smiled demurely when McStud let slip their "secret" bedroom bondage game.
    Afterwards, Johnnie was heard to whisper, "Did ya bring the handcuffs, Trollop?"

  15. 15.

    Krista

    At least Joe Leiberman had the sense to correct McCain when neccessary.

    True, but Lieberman probably wasn’t worried about McCain losing his temper and blurting out "Let me handle this, you c**t!"

    Then again…

  16. 16.

    Dawn Hannity

    Hey, wait a second here. Give the man a break.
    McCain is, after all, speaking with complete clarity and candor.
    Republican campaign events are exclusively populated by party purist where the disloyal "ones" and other elites are locked out, thus yes they are prisons for his loyalist.
    What’s to question?

  19. 19.

    tripletee (formerly tBone)

    @Krista:

    Worried about it? I’m guessing Liebs would pay for it. And then say "Thank you sir, may I have another?"

    Re: the prisoner slip, I don’t really see why everyone is so worked up about it. People misspeak, and McCain’s under an enormous amount of pressure. Why go after him on something like this when there’s a metric fuckton of legitimate reasons to go after him? As That One might say, don’t make a big election about small things.

  20. 20.

    raff

    True, but Lieberman probably wasn’t worried about McCain losing his temper and blurting out "Let me handle this, you c**t!"

    Heh! It had occured to me that Palin probably kept her peace (& place) because correcting McCain might be considered unseemly. One might even say… uppity.

    Lieberman can correct McCain because they’re equals (of a sort). Palin is not an equal. She’s a prop, a gimmick, an affectation… & affectations don’t correct great men.

  22. 22.

    CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII

    Lieberman can correct McCain because they’re equals (of a sort). Palin is not an equal. She’s a prop, a gimmick, an affectation… & affectations don’t correct great men.

    And she knows it… yet it gnaws at her, so much so that she lays awake simmering over it in the dark and then gets up in the morning and goes on national television and talks about the "Palin/McCain" ticket. Ha!

    But, still, she knows it, and that’s enough!

  23. 23.

    gocart mozart

    After 8 years of Cheney/Bush, I think it was just ol timey McCain straight talkin mavrickness.

  26. 26.

    Comrade Nikolita

    @ThymeZone:

    That’s more or less what I was thinking of last night. His attitude towards Obama and the whole election campaign in general strikes me as someone who is losing control (of both himself and his campaign), losing his capabilities, and is striking out blindly in a desperate effort to get what he wants.

    Even if his "my fellow prisoners" line was a mis-step, I think it’s fair to ask if Obama would’ve made the same mistake. And I think the answer would be no – because he’s younger, he’s in better mental shape, he has better control over himself, and he usually knows how to phrase his words.

    Also: http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/bardot-slams-palin-as-a-disgrace-to-women/2008/10/08/1223145388360.html

  27. 27.

    Polish the Guillotines

    Palin’s reaction struck me as odd. She clearly hears McCain’s slip-up, but does nothing. She could have tapped McCain’s shoulder gently, whispered in his ear & McCain could have made an endearing joke about it. But she let him go.

    Cuz she buys into the wingtard hype that she should be at the top of the ticket. She’d put a shiv in the old guy (metaphorically or otherwise) in a New York minute to become Jesus’ Specially Anointed Spokesmodel-In-Chief Of the Apocalypse(tm).

  29. 29.

    jake 4 that 1

    What Polish the Guillotines said. Every time McPOW has what might be a Senior Moment Palin mentally does a little moose-step of glee.

    If they get elected, though, the reporters will start avoiding her also and the constant torrent of fun facts about the odd thing the President did or said.

    And that fucker will deserve every sharp object she inserts in his back.

  31. 31.

    raff

    I see, via the WashMonthly, that the right is in a bit of a tizzy over Obama’s (correct) pronounciation of ‘Pakistan", or as K-Lo puts it: "Pock-i-stahn".

    John McCain’s pronounciation of "Americans" that comes out sounding like "prisoners", however, causes the hystericans no concern whatsoever.

  32. 32.

    Delia

    Cuz she buys into the wingtard hype that she should be at the top of the ticket. She’d put a shiv in the old guy (metaphorically or otherwise) in a New York minute to become Jesus’ Specially Anointed Spokesmodel-In-Chief Of the Apocalypse™.

    Yeah, La Palin is waiting for her moment. Get McPOW elected; then if his melanoma doesn’t fortuitously kick in, have him declared mentally incompetent sometime within the first year. She’s ignorant as a pile of rocks but she’s not exactly stupid. You can see the calculations whirring in her brain as she looks away and then looks back again. All I can say is Cindy better hope they lose. Or hire some good bodyguards.

  33. 33.

    #33497H

    You people make me sick.

    John McCain is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.

  34. 34.

    bedlam UK

    I was reading on one of the tin-foil hat blogs a theory that McCain didn’t pick Palin like its suggested.
    She was picked to be his replacement.
    When its too late to do anything else he’ll step down into a reverse ticket due to ‘health’ reasons, and Palin will lead the party.

    I have no idea about the rules over there but assume that this wouldn’t be possible. But hell, that was a scary idea.

    Either way though, McCain doesn’t have control of his faculties and hasn’t for a while. That is abundantly clear.
    So Palin will be leading one way or the other.
    McCains just the mouth piece. the POW face of the party.

  35. 35.

    Ash Can

    Tripletee: "Why go after him on something like this when there’s a metric fuckton of legitimate reasons to go after him?"

    That was my initial reaction as well. I can forgive a misspeak; everyone does it. I have to wonder where this one came from, though.

  36. 36.

    aarrgghh

    ash can: that was my initial reaction as well. i can forgive a misspeak; everyone does it. i have to wonder where this one came from, though.

    correctamundo, richie — everyone trips over their tongue now and then, but in this case we’ve got a complete and frankly bizarre word substitution that makes you really wonder what universe mccain thought he was in, and, more importantly, how often he visits.

  37. 37.

    Ron E.

    We are all prisoners of his pathetic bullshit campaign and his pathetic unqualified to even be mayor of Wasilla running mate.

  38. 38.

    Rick Taylor

    I can’t be the first one to think of this. Can I?

    Nope. I put a link to it in the previous thread.

    We’re all pawns, m’dear.

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