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kittens
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McCain's gotta be trolling.
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John McCain: Romney should pick Sarah Palin for his VP slot
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McCain's gotta be trolling.
Atramental
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I was thinking about Wallace's article/essay on him in Consider the Lobster--hard to get past his known sense of humor, however much I might disagree with him otherwise.
Gentleman Jack
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There's no question he was kidding around. Here's the question he was responding to:
He almost said 'I think it should be Sarah Palin, too.' He's calling her her out for the self-promotion and getting a nice body shot in the same sentence.
ElectricBlue187
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Damn that's comedy gold. McCain is funnier than I thought
Something Wicked
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Sarcasm: how does it work?...
MrPing1000
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Once McCain's campaign started to go crazy and he saw how fucking insane a lot of his support was, I think he finally realized that he hated what he'd become, so he went back to being kinda alright.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrnRU3ocIH4 stuff like that must have scared the shit out of him at the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrnRU3ocIH4 stuff like that must have scared the shit out of him at the time.
I have never read that. I should check it out.
Before he ran for president, I grew up knowing him as one of the funnier conservative dudes you'd see on The Daily Show, Letterman or Conan.
Yeah, he bought into the system, but clearly regretted it. His drop-out speech was actually pretty moving.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I think Mitch Daniels, as a relatively visible, relatively experienced, relatively popular, and not quite as insane as most, sitting Republican Governor, is probably just about the best possible Republican VP pick. Tim Pawlenty would be a distant second.
In the wildcard category, Dick Lugar (although I suspect he's a tad too old to be comfortable to say yes). I think Marco Rubio is way overbought right now, but stranger things have happened. Bobby Jindal as well is someone whose name keeps coming up, but there's no particularly good argument for him. Chris Christie would be a disaster.
In the wildcard category, Dick Lugar (although I suspect he's a tad too old to be comfortable to say yes). I think Marco Rubio is way overbought right now, but stranger things have happened. Bobby Jindal as well is someone whose name keeps coming up, but there's no particularly good argument for him. Chris Christie would be a disaster.
Ignatz Mouse
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He's got to be trolling..... has to be.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ7z5CUsrbk
Look into the eyes, if you see a glint of decency, compassion or intellect it's not her.
Look into the eyes, if you see a glint of decency, compassion or intellect it's not her.
Rubio is still the perfect match I think
-Minority
-Conservative base adores him
-From a swing state
Escape Goat
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McCain still resents being saddled with palin.
polyh3dron
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Too bad trolling is about to be illegal in McCain's state.
ElectricBlue187
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Most of those people would have a better shot at being president than Romney. They are better off waiting till 2016
Yeah, clear sarcasm.
Problem?
bigtroyjon
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It's actually not that horrible of an idea in terms of strategy. Romney will never win because of how little he fires up the republicans, Palin coming on board would increase the Republican turnout in the election by quite a bit. (still don't think he wins but his chances wouldn't be zero)
She's spent the last 4 years as a tv personality and is more than capable of holding her own during interviews now. All her dirty laundry has been aired and discussed to death, so no surprises there. Even the debates wouldn't be much of an issue since shes spent so much time sitting around listening to and spouting off talking points.
She'd never do it though, VP nomination isn't going to be worth disclosing her income and blowing up whatever notion is left that she is an every woman.
She's spent the last 4 years as a tv personality and is more than capable of holding her own during interviews now. All her dirty laundry has been aired and discussed to death, so no surprises there. Even the debates wouldn't be much of an issue since shes spent so much time sitting around listening to and spouting off talking points.
She'd never do it though, VP nomination isn't going to be worth disclosing her income and blowing up whatever notion is left that she is an every woman.
That would certainly make more sense.
Dreams-Visions
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Go get your teeth whitened, John. You can afford it.
ElectricBlue187
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Two grumpy old moderates
Seraphinianus
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STRONGLY AGREED. (so we can clinch the loss)
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echoshifting
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Poor John McCain. He was obviously joking, so either you're looking at it out of context and it makes him look like a senile old man with dementia, or you look at it in context and it's a remark that could easily land him in a lot of hot water with Sarah's minions. Fortunately subtlety isn't their strong suit.
ElectricBlue187
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He's old and wealthy and untouchable. He doesn't give a damn
sixteen-bit
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He must be trolling.
grandjedi6
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Oh course McCain's a jokester. He was the Daily Show's most frequent guest for years before him and Stewart broke up.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
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She has a lot of skeletons in her closet. Affairs and the like. Opening up all that to the national media would be very bad for Romney.
Really man? Really?
He started with a little joke and then went on to seriously answer to the question.
Head of Vengarl
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I think McCain is a pretty cool guy. Eh makes fun of his own party and doesnt afraid of anything.
Blackace
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Jindal would be just as awesome
SouthernDragon
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He's Cuban. Anyone that's not Cuban will not give two shits.
He used to break with the party a lot more on serious issues, now he just doesn't care who he targets/it's Romney he hates.
No, not really . . . he's always been a rather hardline conservative. It's just that he's not insane.
ReturnOfTheRAT
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Sounds like sabotage to me.
Honest question. Outside of times where a President has been shot or impeached when was the last time the VP honestly mattered?
That's a big reason why many moderates I know switched from McCain to Obama.
He seemed old/possible risk of death, and if his VP choice didn't legitimately seem mentally challenged/batshit crazy they probably would have stayed in his camp. I know personally before McCain flipped on a few issues I was on the fence, but the Palin choice was the last straw for me.
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