Tuesday, September 09, 2008

The Waiting for McCain to Die Party

It looks like the election is boiling down to a battle between the Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama and John McCain, the candidate of the "Waiting for John McCain to Die" Party.
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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

I was thinking the same thing!

As a liberal, I can stomach McCain, because I believe deep down he doesn't care for religion and the Christian right. But I cannot tolerate Sarah Palin's views. Did you see her speech at the Pentecostal church in Alaska? It's been in the news lately. She's as silly in her beliefs as an evangelical gets.

If Obama loses, we're in trouble...

12:46 PM
Anonymous said...

I can't stomach McCain on any level. He's an angry, nasty, small-minded bully. He thinks America owes him the oval office because he was a POW, and I say he's milked that story far too long. That was something that HAPPENED to him; it isn't an accomplishment and shouldn't go on his resume. He treats women as interchangeable and disposable pieces of his world. He dumped his first wife after she became disabled and disfigured in an auto accident. A month later he married the rich 25-yr-old blonde he'd been doing on the side. He's humiliated her in tirades of profanity in front of campaign aides and press. Now his VP pick--he doesn't get that we're not all alike. He thinks the 18 million people who voted for Hillary only did that because she has boobs, so he put a pair on his ticket.
He mouthed off about Bush's entanglements with the religious right, but he's bowed to them in this election. May he choke the next time he has the gall to spout his tag line "Country First."
As to Palin, she is painfully stupid, arrogantly proud of it, and her beliefs keep me up at night. If McCain wins, she'll ultimately rule. He's 72, and the strain of cancer he had averages 10 years remission--he's more than 7 years into that 10.
If Obama loses, we're toast.

1:55 PM
timb said...

Speaking of that, Professor, have you seen these Republicans latch on to identity politics? It reminds me of how you used to call Protein Wisdom the "Fluff Right".

There's a fair amount of far-Right comment dedicated to wrapping itself in the mantle of progressive terms to support their cultural war position (ironically, it's a very Leninist position, i.e. everything is political).

On conservative blogs, any criticism of a gay Republican is "homophobia", on talk radio any criticism of Clarence Thomas is "racism", and now to the McCain campaign any criticism of Sarah Palin is "sexism."

For decades those Righties thought they were losing arguments to minorities not because the positions were losers, but because the visual was all wrong (Roger Ailes, what have you wrought?).

Thye seem to believe (at least jeff Goldstein, Sean Hannity, and other public Righties) that the problem with opposing the FMLA or Gay marriage or affirmative action was the fact that a straight white dude was opposing it, instead of the fact that their policy prescriptions were reactionary and silly.

So, over the last few years, they have embraced identity politics and, yet, STILL criticize it. Worse, they have been waiting to wield this cudgel for so long, that they convince themselves a small-time mayor/theocrat is actually a libertarian reformer and pointing she's not means women aren't "authentic".

Their dissonance would be embarrassing if they weren't so successful in making elections about the personal rather the issue. I can't imagine the chutzpah it takes every day for Rick Davis to get up and say to people whose very hopes and dreams his candidates' policies would hinder and tell them they should vote his guy, because he's likable and was a POW.

This dichotomy might explain their anger; that and losing all the arguments in the long run.

PS Not trying to start a blog war, but this morning's bullsh*t "lipstick" argument sent me to various nutty right wing fever swamp blogs and they are just loony.

8:03 AM
Anonymous said...

I don't understand your entry at all. Is it full of ageism or is there another reference I'm missing?

1:18 PM
Ric Caric said...

All conservative Republicans care about is Sarah Palin. If McCain gets elected, they'll start hoping that he dies about a minute after he's inaugurated. That's what I mean by the "Waiting for John McCain to Die" Party.

4:16 PM
timb said...

Since when does a ViCe President mean anything anyway? Are these simpletons so easy to fool?

7:38 PM
Ric Caric said...

Hey Tim, one of the interesting things is contemplating what Sarah Palin would actually do in a McCain administration. I get a good laugh out the idea that McCain would put her in charge of "standing up to oil companies."

8:05 PM
timb said...

After the windfall profits tax she levied on them in Alaska, I'm thinking the oil compnaies wouldn't like it.

And, that's the rub about her. She wants them to drill everywhere, but, if attaining higher office or being popular means violating her stated values to curry favor, then she's all right with that.

She's apparently a different kind of Maverick.

6:44 AM

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