Oct 10 2007
The punchline that is McCain
Matt Taibbi’s latest about the pathetic excuse of a candidate known as John McCain is a must read. It’s interesting how foar McCain has fallen, because if you asked me a few years ago who the GOP frontrunner was, I would have thought it was him. But I guess having your public persona being that of a constant dweller of Bush’s nether-cavities has probably taken quite a bit of sheen off of that rose. You can only milk that Nam thng so much before many start waking up to the fact that there’s something really wrong with you if you lived through something like that and are continuously promoting something similar, or worse. Leap below the jump to witness the atrocities…
Now, whenever I see anyone supporting the GOP candidates, especially enthusiastically, my first reaction is “Who are these idiots?” (and yes, I get that about a lot of Dem supporters, too). WEll, as Taibbi’s dialog with several McCain supporters clearly illustrate, the answer is… idiots. Although it should be apparent, the emphasis on the money quotes are mine…
Rusty Houser likes McCain’s stance on the war; when I ask him why we are in Iraq in the first place, he tells me, “To get rid of Al Qaeda.” When I point out that Bush himself has admitted there was no connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda, Houser shrugs. Bush, he assures me, “doesn’t always let people know what he knows.”…
Another McCain supporter named Johnny Mack who is pushing “No Surrender” petitions at a VFW appearance in Anderson says he didn’t know that there was no connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq before the war, but that doesn’t matter, because “I’m just a dumb country boy” who nonetheless knows of “secret reasons” for the war from his time running nightclubs in the Midwest, where he learned “things I can’t disclose.”
A third supporter, Lynn Fowler, says she agrees with McCain’s assessment that we need to fight the terrorists in Iraq because otherwise they will come here. “I never understood that one,” I say. “If the terrorists want to fight us here, how are we stopping them from coming by going to Iraq? Are we tying up the air-traffic controllers or something?”
She frowns. “They are here,” she says. “They’re all around us! They have prayer mats in schools! In New York, there are taxi drivers who won’t let you in their cab if you’re carrying alcohol!”
“Yeah, they’re already here,” agrees a guy in an Air Force T-shirt. “All over the place.”
You know, the next stop for a Muslim cabbie who won’t let you bring alcohol in their cab (does that really happen?) is usually a stop at the local bomb store (which of course, is hidden in a secret wall behind the local mosque). I mean, these people are in serious tinfoil hat territory, no?
Now, lest you think this is something unique to the reddest of states, or something, not so. Just have a look at how former plagiarist/hack/Rainville toady/Green Mountain Daily ‘innocent victim” Christopher Potter Stewart is still so enraptured with oozy man-love for McCain, unabated, as he was plugging the hopeless one mercilessly last year. Why, as recently as this last September, he issued this mildly retarded proclaimation:
First, we believe that John McCain is the most qualified of all the presidential candidates to “sort out” American policy in Iraq when the troop surge is up in April.
We can apparently see this qualification in McCain’s continuous embrace of the Bush agenda. Brilliant. Stay in New Hampshire, Chris. Please. Or go work for Joe Lieberman.
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