Letters to the Editor
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John "Cartoon" McCain!
Is it funny that John McCain is becoming more like Homer Simpson everyday? Like Homer,Mr.McCain is not deterred or slowed down a bit by chronic incompetence or bad reviews.
Hope springs eternal in cartoon land because these two impetuous characters simply refuse to believe they're as limited,boorish and stunned as they really are!
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I can save you two pages of reading
Will New Hampshire Republicans give him the nod again?
No.
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I think McCain will be the nominee for the Republicans
Why?
Not because he's good.
Because he sucks less than the others.
McCain is the only candidate out there that the Republicans wouldn't have to be actively ashamed of afterwards.
And that will be enough.
Bob Dole, move over!
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Well, we only care about the trivialities, anyway
Sen. McCain won't be the nominee, because he's too fat and Americans hate fat. He must weight twice what he did back when he was a pilot. None of the other candidates are porky; I think Taft must have been our last porky President.
And what's this about "I don't want to eat Mexican chocolate" ? Does he even have a clue about what "Mexican chocolate" is? If he did, he'd tell Hershey to wake up and smell the cocoa.
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more of the handicapping...
More pointless stories of the race horses...bla bla bla bla
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the GOP vs Iraq and the voters
People use all sorts of unpredictable heuristics by which to sort out information about politicians, generally avoiding actual research into the history of the candidate's positions, as you suggest with McCain re the Iraq war.
With that assumption in mind, it occurs to me that maybe primary voters will look at McCain's intraparty heresy with respect to immigration and decide that it demonstrates that he's been consistent on Iraq. Not exactly Q.E.D., but I suspect it works that way for a lot of people.
Likewise, if voters in the GOP are sick of the war but keep hearing Fox News tell them that being sick of the war is This Thing that all good conservatives agree Simply Cannot Be Uttered, I could well see being regarded as a smooth "flip-flopper" as a thing that may well play in Romney's favor:
the meta-message might be that Romney just says he supports the war because he's being a good republican and has to say it, but will bail when the public's ire becomes too strong, so let's vote for him, letting our screwy conservative collective unconscious be our guide.
Whereas you have to watch out for "old reliable" McCain, because maybe he really means it!
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Wrong then, wrong now
New Hampshire voters got it wrong in 2004...will they do it again? Old Coot McPain has zero credibility, and if NH voters want to be the laughingstock of the nation, they will choose this whacky old fart as their Presidential nominee.
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The Media has now
decided to start the "McCain Comeback" narrative, after building up (and now tearing down) Huckabee. I knew this would happen, it was just a matter of when. The MSM loves this guy too much to let him go, even though the Republican base has long since turned its back on him. Being a war hero/POW can only take you so far if your party hates many of the things you've done and said in your Senate career, and the "maverick" status has been shelved after the literal and figurative embrace of GWB and his war, so what's the meme going to be this time? "John McCain: Everyone else sucks worse"?
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What happened to McCain?
Seriously, is the guy on antidepressants?
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Swan Song for McCain
McCain should have "Runnin' on Empty" as his campaign theme song, since that's what he's been doing the whole time. As I've said before, 2000 was his moment, when the maverick myth that protected him so long was in full splendor.
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McCain
I'm not a republican, but in 2000 I liked and respected John McCain. Didn't he win N.H. by 20 points? He was doing great until the likes of Rove got into the really ugly lying slander spread that was the Bush campaign.
McCain was pretty much out of the GOP loop, and he seems to have cow towed to the pressure. He's not the guy from 2000. He has sucked up to the GOP. Having said that out of all the republican candidate, he's still my favorite even though I don't agree with some of his positions. But if one of the republican lot had to win, I'd rather it be him.
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Campaign smart, not hard.
The Iowa and New Hampshire Republican primaries are a test of the political organizations of the Republican candidates rather than of the candidates themselves. Media reports have not caught up with the fact that these small states no longer have much sway in the primary process. A candidate can no longer win much in these primaries, but a candidate can certainly lose much. It doesn’t matter so much how well you do, but how far from expectations you fall.
I am betting on the political organizations that are bypassing these primaries. The strategy should be to pay lip service to these states, don’t deal with anything controversial, while aiming for the large state and multi-state primaries. Candidates campaigning hard in Iowa and New Hampshire are displaying a sense of desperation. The desperation may lead to a short term success but such displays eventually enter into the consciousness of the public where it evolves into a negative reaction.
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McFly, Redux
Poor John Mccain. He used to make sense, make a case for the Republicans and make a difference; now, he makes a pitiful figure. He looks more like the old neighborhood codger who comes out on his front porch to yell "hey, you kids, keep off my lawn!". How very sad.
In the old "Back To The Future" motion pictures, Marty McFly's hapless dad was reduced to a cartoonish buffoon, smiling and shuffling along and generally uttering babble and nonsense. John McCain is the McFly of this campaign: bumbling, fumbling and, increasingly, irrelevant.
John's downfall began in 2000 when he allowed George W. Bush to paint him as having a black child...among other things...in the South Carolina primary. He also...correctly...accused the late Rev. Fallwell of being an "agent of intolerence". That was then.
Fast-forward to the 2004 election and there's John McCain... pitifully endorsing Bush...the very man who slimed him four years earlier. This year, he made nice with the "agents of intolerence" to win their ReligiousRight votes. He also claimed to be a member of the Southern Baptist Convention... even though he is actually a life-long member of the Episcopal Church.
John McCain has become a caricature of a sleazy politician who will say anything and do anything for a vote; it is no wonder, then, that the electorate has found him out.
Put a fork in 'im; he's done...