Mitt Romney
-Headline of the day-
"Romney Can’t Bring Himself To Say That McCain Has Conducted A 'Dignified And Honest' Campaign."
Who knew Mittens the Flip-Flopper had any shame? You learn something new every day. Appearing on NBC's Today Show, host Meredith Vieira asked Mitt Romney, "So, let me ask you, would you characterize John McCain’s campaign as dignified and honest?"
"Well, what I’d characterize the entire campaign as is extraordinarily negative on the part of Barack Obama," Mittens said. I won't say "answered," because he didn't. So Meredith tried again.
"So you think his campaign was dignified?" she asked.
"Well, I think it’s going to come down to this, and I think that is, who is going to be able to keep America safe and who is it that’s going to add jobs," Mittens again non-answered. WTF man? That's not even close.
"Governor, not to beat a dead horse here, but once again, do you believe that the campaign was dignified?" Vieira asked one last time.
"Was it dignified?" Mitt failed to answer. "It was presidential." I guess at this point she just gave up. In Mitt's defense, "presidential" has lost a lot of its meaning post-Bush. Since McCain managed to get through the entire campaign without actually falling down an open manhole, then yeah, I guess you could say it was "presidential." Then again, so's making big decisions with a Magic Eightball.
A lie of omission is still a lie. You're so goin' to Hell, Jesus boy. (Think Progress)
-I blame the aides-
Sarah Palin got a prank phone call this weekend from Montreal's Les justiciers masqués (the Masked Avengers). In the call, McCain's veepee was told she was on the line with French President Sarkozy. Of course, it wasn't. It was a comedian using such an exaggerated French accent that he sounded like Inspector Clouseau. If that wasn't a big enough giveaway, "Sarkozy" suggested they go "'unting from a 'elicoptaire."
"I just love killing those animals," the MA told her. "Mmm, mmm, take away life, that is so fun. I'd really love to go, so long as we don't bring along Vice-President Cheney." He also told her that "we have a lot in common also, because except from my house I can see Belgium. That's kind of less interesting than you."
She must've wised up at the end, when the following came up:
A: Gov. Palin, I love the documentary they made on your life. You know Hustler's Nailin' Paylin?
P: Ohh, good, thank you, yes.
A: That was really edgy.
P: Well, good.
Seriously, the problem here -- as it almost always has been -- is the McCain advisors. Someone handed her that phone and told her who it was supposed to be from. What's she supposed to do? She's never met Sarkozy and there's really no reason to believe he's not completely insane. If she said, "Wait minute here, Buster! Yer not that Sarkozy guy!" and it turned out it was that Sarkozy guy and he was just crazy, then what?
This is less a glimpse of how dumb Palin is (although it's that too) and more of a glimpse at how fucked up, inept, and clueless McCain's campaign is. This may be my last chance to say this before Team McCain folds up the tent, but these people are astonishingly stupid. All of them. Seriously, sometimes I wonder how they manage to feed themselves.
Man, we're really dodging a bullet on this one. McCain seems to be attracted to the dumbest goddam political minds in America. If he won, we'd wind up with Rush Limbaugh as Secretary of State or something. (Globe and Mail)
-Reddit gets all votie-
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Vote, vote, VOTE!! (reddit, reddit, and reddit)
