The momentum continues for Barack Obama, as he wins today’s Maine caucuses. Turnout was high. (MSNBC):
Maine - Barack Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic Party’s Maine caucuses on Sunday, grabbing a majority of delegates as the state’s Democrats overlooked the snowy weather and turned out in heavy numbers for municipal gatherings.***With 70 percent of the participating precincts reporting, Obama had 57 percent of the vote, while Clinton had 42 percent.
But back to the lonely GOP clown car:
* In ho-hum news (aside from the screaming going on in Freeperland), failed heir to the Reagan mantle, Fred Thompson, has endorsed McCain.
* John McCain adviser Charlie Black has no reservations about the Tool cozying up to master-of-disaster Dear Leader:
With Mr. McCain facing resistance from conservatives, Mr. Bush has also emerged as the man Republicans, including the McCain camp, are counting on to unite the party. One McCain adviser, Charlie Black, called Mr. Bush “a political asset” in an interview last week. Another, speaking anonymously to discuss strategy, said Mr. Bush needed to “put his arms around John McCain,” by figuratively linking himself with the senator in public comments.Even better, we get a preview of what kind of general election McCain plans to run. He’s also ready to hop in bed with Karl Rove. This is what McCain said about the dark lord of dirty politics, who gave $2300 to McCain’s campaign.
MCCAIN: Oh yeah. A lot of the fundraisers from other camps are coming on board. And yeah we’re seeing that coming together really well. We’re seeing it.You can see the video here.[Inaudible]
MCCAIN: Who?
QUESTION: Karl Rove?
MCCAIN: Oh I, listen, he ah. Nobody denies he’s one of the smartest political minds in America. I’d be glad to get his advice. I get advice from a lot of people. I’d be happy to have his advice.
QUESTION: I was wondering about that, right….
MCCAIN: He beat me. I certainly would be glad to get his advice. I don’t think I’d want to revisit how he did it. And I mean that. Not about South Carolina. I mean I don’t feel like reliving my defeat.
QUESTION: Are you worried about, he uses very aggressive tactics is that something that–
MCCAIN: I’ve always respected Karl Rove as one of the smart great political minds I think in American politics. I’ve always respected him. We never had any ill will after the initial South Carolina thing. After we had the meeting with President Bush we moved on. I’ve seen Karl Rove many times when I’ve been over at the White House. We’ve always had pleasant conversations.
QUESTION: His tactics don’t, you don’t disapprove of them? They don’t make you nervous?
MCCAIN: It’s not so much whether I approve of his tactics or not. It’s that he has a very good, great political mind. Any information or advice and council he can give us, I’d be glad to have. I don’t think anybody denies his talents. So I’d be glad to get any advice and council. We would obviously decide whether to accept it or not.
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I hardly think McCain is ready to “hop into bed” with Rove. All I read into McCain’s response is that that he has a thick skin and doesn’t hold grudges. In other words, he’s a professional politician.
“Would you be more or less likely to vote for John McCain if you were to learn he had an illegitimate black child?”
Oh yeah, Rove’s “brilliant” all right. I think my favorite Rove story is the one where he smeared the judge in Alabama as a pedophile. I can’t wait to receive push-poll and mass mailings about Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s desire to create a world-wide Caliphate, give all your children crack, and give all your money to Africans.
What a straight-talkin’ maverick that john McCain is. Yessiree!
Why in each of those posted shots does McCain look like a baby koala clinging to its mother?
I think my favorite quote on this comes from Fox News:
“John McCain says that Karl Rove’s help and advice is welcome aboard the Straight Talk Express.”
(Huzzah for Obama!)
Why in each of those posted shots does McCain look like a baby koala clinging to its mother?/i>
He can’t lift his arms above his shoulders due to injuries from his POW days.
Come to think of it, I can’t really imagine a presidential nominee– or president– who can’t raise his or her arms, wave, etc. No particular reason, I guess, but it’s a sort of assumed posture.
Oops, sorry about the italics. Bedtime.
Shorter McCain: “Sure, you have to sign contracts with him in blood, but he does deliver on the deal.”
“I wish I could quit you”
Poor John McCain. He’s so desperate to win that he will do ANYTHING to do it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he starts getting all racist and ‘bubba’ in the near future. Making a racist comment might buy him some bitch slapping by the left but it would go far for the ‘religious’ right ‘values voters’ who need someone to be in the groove with their hatred and fear.
McCain is about to take advice from the most evil genius of political rat-fucking that has ever walked the earth. Rove is to good for a bullet, he’s so loathsome, disgusting, vile, hideous and nasty that he is probably the only person that CAN get McCain elected.
But John should watch out for a ‘Rove blowback’ which could actually happen this year. The sheep in the ‘religious right’ aren’t quite as up on things as the left but they realize that they’ve been swindled and taken for granted by Bush/Rove and might not be so easy to land on the stern of the scow McCain as John thinks. (And I sincerely hope.) But hey, John will do anything to win and obviously Karl’s black bag of tricks meets with his approval or he wouldn’t be considering it.
“Like what Bush has done to America and the world? Vote for McCain.”
Just think of the further wreckage that John McCain can bring to the world. Say, he doesn’t believe in the ‘rapture‘, does he?
The intriguing question to me is whether McCain will take Rove’s advice against Huckabee.
I can easily see the machine seeing that that is the necessary and obvious first step, especially while the Democratic nomination is in flux, But that would really blow up in their faces (I guess, I’ve pretty much given up on figuring out how the rank and file Republican will jump).
Then again, if you can convince people that torture is patriotism and John McCain is a traitor, you can convince them of just about anything.
The last politician to take the high ground was John Kerry circa ‘03-’04 and look where that got him. Hitting below the belt is survival politics and I wouldn’t expect anything less of any politician who’s serious about becoming president. Presidents have to be able to sleep at night knowing they’ve just given the green light to bomb the shit out of major areas in the world, with likely civilian casualties. Like any one of these people is going to give a second thought to a little dirty campaigning.
Oh ew. Bring back Kerry/Edwards!