Comments on: Senator McCrazypants

By: Larry Jones

Larry Jones — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:50:07 +0000

Didn’t see a comment from you, Vikki.

By: vikkitikkitavi

vikkitikkitavi — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:52:06 +0000

Dang. Did my comment post?

By: Larry Jones

Larry Jones — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:05:27 +0000

kStyle – I hurried past those supposed rationales, because, hey, he’s sold his soul to get the presidency, and we can no longer take his actions at face value. All he’s doing now is campaigning, albeit in a wacky, screwball, fighter-pilot-taking-flak kind of way.

Bill – The sad thing is, John McCain might have been a Republican we could work with, before the Atwater/Rove/Cheney scorched earth divide-and-conquer style of electioneering became the neocon norm.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:25:20 +0000

Old John is so old I think he feels exempt from reality. His campaign has been one long and miserable Three Card Monty con job. Apparently there’s enough suckers to keep his goofiness seen as serious and real.

By: kStyle

kStyle — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:35:19 +0000

“McCrazyPants”! Wonderful turn of phrase, Larry!

I don’t know what this says about me, but I think I get where McCrazyPants is going with a lot of this stuff. NOT THAT I AGREE.

Palin: Hunters love her! Obama wants to take their guns! Fundies love her! Obama wants them to bow to Mecca! Women love her! Obama took away Hillary’s chance!

Hurricane: It would look Really Really Bad if the Republicans were throwing confetti while Katrina 2 destroyed the South. They would look Out of Touch.

Economic Crisis: McCrazypants is a man of action! He can clean up Wall Street!

By: Larry Jones

Larry Jones — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:15:37 +0000

C.B. – Where have you been? Obama learned how to speak Campaign English like, two months ago. I think he would win a debate both on formal points and in perception. Obviously, McCrazypants knows this, too.

Wren – Unserious? How about “goofy”?

By: Wren

Wren — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:02:00 +0000

Can you say “unserious?” Goood! I knew you could!

By: Caravana Basura

Caravana Basura — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:51:44 +0000

Yes. McCain really really blundered with his stated desire to cancel this debate. Especially because he does at least as well as Obama in spontaneous speaking, and especially especially because the topic (world affairs or defense or somesuch) is more up McCain’s alley than it is up Obama’s alley.

McCain speaks more forcefully, more simplistically, and with fewer hesitations, and in technical terms he would almost for sure “win” such a debate. This is not to say anyone’s mind would be changed about whom to vote for, but still, why give up a chance to show up Obama?

There’s a weirdness about this Palin-Cancel-the-Debate behavior that is sort of disturbing. It’s reminiscent of Gary Hart taunting the media to catch him with a girl, or whatever he did to blow his chances back in 1984. It’s a self-destructive thing, as if neither man really wanted to succeed, perhaps because the idea of being Pres is so fucking scary.

And dittos on the hurricane hesitation. Good point there, Larry!