2008 USP(G)ET pt. II: counting the days to 2012 primary thread 1

"there's a bunch of young urban voters registering for the first time this year - you can't count mccain out just yet!"

lol

urban

they could do ANYTHING - they are YOUNG and full of UNPREDICTABLE VITALITY!

you're forgetting about the pitbulls and the hockey moms, they will decide this thing

lotsa pitbulls in urban areas, that's all I'm saying

it's already lost in the shuffle but tha vimeo link i posted was a sarah silverman bit that's going around. pretty funny.

man, I can't handle this many lafffs in one day

so if crashing and burning is an inappropriate metaphor for McCain here, can we get some alternative suggestions...?

it's funny if you like silverman

cratering, xp

guys, i'm starting to feel a little more settled now. mccain and palin are such a mess right now that i can't see them winning this thing, the convention bounce has been completely nullified and palin is like a deer caught in the headlights these days.

yeah, a hot sexy librarian type deer that you want to cover with whipped cream

cell phone users for mccain/palin

tina fey as sarah palin was about 10x hotter than the real thing imo

obv

hey jeff i know you think i'm some kind of secret racist hypocrite so you follow me around calling out my posts like nate patrin pt2 but what i'm talking aobut is that i've been working at the campaign for change office downtown to help register voters under 25 who live in fulton county, meaning metro atlanta

also
http://culturekitchen.com/files/sarahpalin-moostachelove.jpg

Dat moose is way too happy

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/129016.html

Today was hardly the first time John McCain has put Country First by showily "suspending" his campaign for the White House. On March 31, 1999, a week before his scheduled "official announcement" confirming the months-old news that he was running for president, and a week after Bill Clinton sent bombers over Kosovo, McCain announced that "It's not appropriate at this time to launch a political campaign."

How'd that work for him politically? According to sympathetic biographer Robert Timberg,

His decision amounted to a masterful political stroke. The Washington Post's Mary McGrory said that "professional politicians of both parties were wowed by McCain's beau geste.... McCain has made himself the de facto Republican foreign policy spokesman, and is getting yards of publicity for a non-event." The kudos kept pouring in, as did even more demands for him to appear on news-oriented TV talk shows. On one day alone, Monday, April 5, he could be seen arguing his case on Fox News's Crier Report, CNN's Larry King Live, PBS's Charlie Rose, two programs on CNBC, and two more on MSNBC, according to the Post's Dan Balz. Balz quoted one Republican strategist as labeling the conflict in Kosovo "All McCain, all the time." By week's end, syndicated columnist Mark Shields, on CNN's Capital Gang, said, "Let me just say in thirty-five years in Washington, I have never seen a debate dominated by an individual in the minority party as I've seen this one dominated by John McCain."

As Jake Tapper reported, in a May 1999 Salon piece that began with the phrase "First, a confession: Sen. John McCain almost seduced me":

"It tells people, here's a guy who doesn't need consultants to tell him what he believes in," says Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., another McCain 2000 co-chairman. "Contrast that with who's been leading this country for the last seven years."

"He's surged in New Hampshire," brags Warren Rudman. "He went from 3 percent to 15 percent in just a month."

As Sen. Gordon Smith puts it, "He's won the Kosovo primary."

puppetmaster - that comment wasn't a dig at you. sorry you're so sensitive about race.

http://www.moosechick.com/NorthernExposure.wav

Looks like Palin's got a type.

Ronnie Dunn better watch out.

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattlepolitics/archives/149622.asp

Bob Barr wants debate sugar

The Senator’s left eye seems even more droopy than usual these days — is there something behind his campaign postponement he’s not telling us?The internet suggests Bell’s Palsy as a possibility, or some type of stroke — and you should always trust what the internet says about medical conditions.

http://www.esoterically.net/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/mccain-iseman.jpg

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/12355/thumbs/s-V-large.jpghttp://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/12348/thumbs/s-CINDY-large.jpg

"...while my russian wing..."

way to blow a joke, slate

http://www.slate.com/id/2200927/

not a one funny

The picture is funny!

wtf?

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=M2RlYWZjNGJiYjZiZmNjNjE2OTdlODVhNmQwYjdhMjI=

When Jonah and folk read shit like this, do they think - "This is what we've gotta put up with for our winning Conservative coalition'?

No seriously. we need to volley BOB BARR onto the debate. Yes, BOB BARR. What's Obama gonna do? "Well, Bob, you got me there."

Then we can finally rest for a while.

As Jake Tapper reported, in a May 1999 Salon piece that began with the phrase "First, a confession: Sen. John McCain almost seduced me":

"He's surged in New Hampshire," brags Warren Rudman.

These guys either never get laid or really need sodomy.

Man, I haven't had so much fun reading wingnut blogs since the '06 congressional elections:

Kristol:

As for the question of Friday night's debate, which some in the media seem to think more important than saving the financial system--if the negotiations are still going on in D.C., McCain should offer to send Palin to debate Obama! Or he can take a break from the meetings, fly down at the last minute himself, and turn a boring foreign policy debate, in which he and Obama would repeat well-rehearsed arguments, into a discussion about leadership and decisiveness. And if the negotiations are clearly on a path to success, then McCain can say he can now afford to leave D.C., fly down, and the debate would become a victory lap for McCain.

So the action of these few days becomes more important than the talk of that hour and a half Friday night. One could even say the contrast between the two men in action becomes the true debate over who should be president. The media, being talkers and debaters, love debates, overestimate their importance, and are underestimating the possible effect of McCain's dramatic action. In the debate itself, McCain should mock the media's greater concern for gabbing than solving our economic problems, and should associate Obama with such a talk-heavy media-type approach to politics. If the race is between an energetic executive and an indecisive talker, the energetic executive should win.

mccain is an 'energetic executive'? what, has he started taking geritol?

Hey, wait just a goddamned minute:

Palin was asked if she thought the U.S. presence in Iraq and Afghanistan was helping to mitigate terrorism.

"I think our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan will lead to further security for our nation. We can never again let them onto our soil," she said.

"Them?" Since Iraqis and Afghans were never on our soil committing terrorist acts, I wonder who she could be talking about here?

"the debate would become a victory lap for mccain"

nice way to get 2 steps ahead of yourself, dude

The media, being talkers and debaters, love debates

oh do tell

http://writingcompany.blogs.com/this_isnt_writing_its_typ/images/baghdad_bob_1.jpg

Kristol's smug face makes me want to smash things

i mean does kristol expect mccain to show up at the debate and be all "hey guys! i made it! i was busy being very, very important but i'm glad i could sit in on this little chat" to the adoring ovation of the crowd and jim lehrer?

w-w-waauuuu

lol colbert

The idea that Lehman Brothers doesn't get any money and AIG does reminds me very much of ''Iran is a mortal enemy because they have not achieved a nuclear weapon. But North Korea is a country we can work with, because they have a nuclear weapon.'' The idea is, Get big or go home. How big can you fuck up? Can you fuck up so bad that you would ruin the world economy? If it's just 15,000 who are out of jobs, no. You have to actually be a global fuck-up to get any help.

McCain should mock the media's greater concern for gabbing than solving our economic problems
McCain should mock the media's greater concern for gabbing than solving our economic problems
McCain should mock the media's greater concern for gabbing than solving our economic problems
McCain should mock the media's greater concern for gabbing than solving our economic problems
McCain should mock the media's greater concern for gabbing than solving our economic problems
McCain should mock the media's greater concern for gabbing than solving our economic problems
McCain should mock the media's greater concern for gabbing than solving our economic problems
McCain should mock the media's greater concern for gabbing than solving our economic problems

"What the fuck are YOU going to do about our economy, Wolf Blitzer?"

McCain should mock the media's greater concern for gabbneb than solving our economic problems.

given mccains taste in mockery, it'd be more "what is this coffee klatsch bullshit you media cunts are gabbing on about"

Looks like Palin's got a type.

Ronnie Dunn better watch out.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, September 25, 2008 2:53 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

HAAAAAAhhahahaha!

btw did anyone else see this? was fwd'ed to me yesterday:

http://blurt.publr.net/dzbF8ze2LGDP_m.jpg

Fake. I think it was posted Monday (i.e. ~10,000 posts back)

holy shit

xp awww say it ain't so

that would explain why i missed it. hard to keep up here.