Mccain Bashing Thread

[JeRmZ]

I just wish the dude would stop calling me his friend.


"My Friends"


I don't even know him!!

[chljoe]

I do grow tired of the "my friends" quote every single time he speaks.

[Yanksfan396]

I think it's funny that this is the only candidate alive who can rival Bush's level of stupidity. Finished near-bottom of a class of almost 900. Palin's not much better. I'll bet 40% of this website has more college experience than she does. Maybe if she actually attended more than a few semesters, the world wouln't be awestruck by her dittiness. I'd take Obama coincidently on the same board as Ayers than Palin "palling" around with Limbaugh, while her husband belongs to an Alaskan radical group. The Republican ticket is a joke. Most of us have, at one point in our lives, had the unsettling feeling in our respective stomach that we were, perhaps, more intelligent than one of our teachers or professors. Much of the country has had this feeling for the past eight years; imagine another four!

[gatorboymike]

I have a lot to say about this...I think it might be pretty offensive to both parties and Americans in general, but try to keep your head on.

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John McCain's campaign has to be one of the most poorly run in US history, if not the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel worst. Even worse than the 1800 John Adams campaign that claimed Thomas Jefferson would destroy Christianity and fill the churches with prostitutes if he was elected. If McCain does win, it will be a bigger fluke than Bush losing and still winning, or Ford being planted in the White House without ever having a single vote cast in his name.

What's the problem? Well, it seems that Bush is the prototype after which the Christian Right intends to pattern all future Republican candidates. But Bush has become as unpopular as New Coke and is likely to stay that way for years or even decades. After all, Carter was unpopular throughout most of his presidency and we still consider his presidency a failure. So, in what may have been little more than a show of their own power, the Christian Right took the one guy who had a reputation for being unBush more than anyone else--a guy with a history of opposing them when his fellow Republicans looked up to them with wide eyes and gaping mouths--and turned him into Bush behind the scenes.

McCain likes to sell himself as a maverick, and once upon a time he really was one. I used to respect that about him. But all it took was the Right he had once vilified whispering sweet nothings in his ear about sitting in the Oval Office, and he sold out faster than black lipstick at an Evanescence concert. With visions of sugarplums and White Houses dancing in his head, McCain went from unBush to Bush seemingly overnight. And, in an act of diabolical cunning worthy of a cat-stroking James Bond villain, the Christian Right attached to the septuagenarian ex-POW's ticket a candidate who is more Bush than Bush himself is, in all the qualities that make Bush Bush. The intent is so obvious that even McCain himself must see it, if there's any shred of his old self left under the Buhsified shell we see on TV: all he's there to do is win the election and then die. Bango-zango, Bush lives on, only with lipstick.

Actually, that's not entirely fair. There are three other reasons Palin was put on the ticket. First, to attempt to sway Hillary voters who felt disenfranchised at Obama's victory over her. But they should have known that wouldn't work very well, as it would require Democratic women to vote against their interest on virtually every issue and principle they have, just because the opposing candidate was a woman. Second, Palin was chosen to motivate young evangelical Christians to get excited about politics to counter the strong pro-Obama youth vote. But the Right should have known that Palin's 15 minutes of fame would be over long before Election Day, and in the meantime, the media and the Democrats would dig up enough dirt on her to form a tunnel to China. So that effect wouldn't cut it, either.

The truth is that the Christian Right has always known that the 2008 election would be near-impossible for them to win. They're not stupid...they may be apocalyptic, megalomaniacal and utterly ruthless, but not stupid. They know America almost always votes out the party in power when the economy is bad, and this is the worst it's been since the days of Carter. We all know what happened to him! The real reason for picking Palin was the third reason: to establish a presence for her on the national stage so she can run against Obama in 2012. In effect, Palin's candidacy is nothing more than a red herring.

Yet, I have to give the Republicans credit here. They have a history of coughing up old, white man after old, white man, and it seems they've finally caught on to the concept that youth = popularity. It worked for Kennedy, it worked for Clinton, and it's working for Obama. They've even caught on to the idea of nominating female candidates. Twenty-four years after the Democrats tried it with Mondale/Ferraro, the Republicans are trying it with McCain/Palin, and for them, 24 years is making good time. That seems to be the way new electoral trends work in this country: a new kind of candidate has to appear--and lose--first, to give the idea a sense of legitimacy before they can win. So, in effect, the failed candidacy of Geraldine Ferraro opened the door for women candidates on major-party tickets. This election proved that Democrats would be willing to have a woman president, and even Republicans would be willing to have a woman vice president. Dare I hope that society is making progress?

The thing about new kinds of candidates is that they are often gambles. The major parties know this, which is why said people are usually nominated to tickets that expect to lose. That was the case with Mondale/Ferraro, who were creamed by Reagan/Bush in 1984, and it's the same with McCain/Palin in 2008, whom few have expected to defeat Obama/Biden. But therein lays the quandary: Obama himself is a new kind of candidate. If you'd asked me five or six years ago whether Americans would ever elect a black guy with a partially Muslim heritage, I'd say you were mistaking Americans for human beings rather than the hamster-like creatures that subsist entirely on hollow nationalistic propaganda and soul-melting Hollywood tripe that they are. In the wake of 9/11, which it seems mass numbers of us will never be able to move on from, I would have said that you'd have to be so white and Christian that you make Kirk Cameron look like Louis Farrakhan to come within ten blocks of old 1600 Pennsylvania. I would have said that Obama wouldn't have a shot until at least 2024, and only then with an utterly spotless Senate record, at least one failed vice-presidential bid and at least one failed presidential bid under his belt. In fact, until Obama was elected to the Senate in 2004, I doubted that I would live to see a non-white male president in my lifetime. But something about him just screamed, "This is the guy."

Not to say Obama is the perfect candidate. He's a politician, which automatically makes him one of the people who LEAST deserve to be in politics. And it doesn't matter who you are, if you put your name out there like that, people will dig up every wrong thing you've ever done, cast every right thing you've ever done in a negative light, and clog the media with enough insults, threats, accusations and lies about you to make you think you'd had a Big Mac surgically implanted into your aorta. The Christian Right has thrown everything short of the kitchen sink at Obama, and they do have some legitimately serious concerns, but none of it has stuck. It's even caused backlash for McCain; apparently Americans really do have a limit to how much negative campaigning they can handle. If Slick Willie was a Teflon president, then Slick Barry must be a rubber president. And that's the biggest insult of all to McCain and the Republicans. In effect, America is telling them, "We'd rather have a black guy with a Muslim dad, acquaintances with former domestic terrorists and zero experience than you." That can't be good for their self-esteem. But I wouldn't count on them playing dead for long. Given the Republicans' newfound knowledge of demographics, it's only a matter of time before we see Palinator 2: Judgment Day, co-starring Piyush "Bobby" Jindal as Mahatma Connor, the young man who will one day save the world from the liberal cyborgs.

[hendrikus1967]

Haha...nice read! Liked it!

[TechMan]

I think it's funny that this is the only candidate alive who can rival Bush's level of stupidity. Finished near-bottom of a class of almost 900. Palin's not much better. I'll bet 40% of this website has more college experience than she does. Maybe if she actually attended more than a few semesters, the world wouln't be awestruck by her dittiness. I'd take Obama coincidently on the same board as Ayers than Palin "palling" around with Limbaugh, while her husband belongs to an Alaskan radical group. The Republican ticket is a joke. Most of us have, at one point in our lives, had the unsettling feeling in our respective stomach that we were, perhaps, more intelligent than one of our teachers or professors. Much of the country has had this feeling for the past eight years; imagine another four!

I love how people can this ,but can you imagine the stress of being PResident? Can you imagine having your country attacked i nthe first few months you took over? Many peopel CAN THINK they are smart, but id like to see them Deal with what A President has t odeal with for an hour.

[Bonds_25]

I love how people can this ,but can you imagine the stress of being PResident? Can you imagine having your country attacked i nthe first few months you took over? Many peopel CAN THINK they are smart, but id like to see them Deal with what A President has t odeal with for an hour.

They know that going in though, that's part of the job. Sure he couldn't have known 9/11 was coming or some of the things he has had to deal with, but as a presidential candidate you have to prepare yourself for the worst.

[Yanksfan396]

Alright, I'll go along with the stress thing. It actually strengthens the Obama/Biden ticket.



Gator... awesome stuff, man.

[Chuck-17]

I think it's funny that this is the only candidate alive who can rival Bush's level of stupidity. Finished near-bottom of a class of almost 900. Palin's not much better. I'll bet 40% of this website has more college experience than she does. Maybe if she actually attended more than a few semesters, the world wouln't be awestruck by her dittiness. I'd take Obama coincidently on the same board as Ayers than Palin "palling" around with Limbaugh, while her husband belongs to an Alaskan radical group. The Republican ticket is a joke. Most of us have, at one point in our lives, had the unsettling feeling in our respective stomach that we were, perhaps, more intelligent than one of our teachers or professors. Much of the country has had this feeling for the past eight years; imagine another four!

Yanksfan396 go ahead and post your educational background. I am sure you went to great schools like Yale and Harvard. I would love to see your background and compare it to a Harvard MBA.

[gladdyontherise]

i can see a clueless democrat from my computer!

why dont you just grow up?