Out: Suggestions that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has lost his bearings. In: Jokes about him being "liable to break a hip."
Opening his Campaign Sketch column today, Washington Post's Dana Milbank painted the Arizona senator as a political dancer shuffling left-and-right all over the campaign floor:
If John McCain keeps dancing like this, he's liable to break a hip.
Last month, he shimmied to the left on energy policy, infuriating conservatives with a plan to cap carbon emissions. Yesterday, he shuffled back to the right, demanding an end to quarter-century-old bans on offshore oil drilling.
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It was, in other words, a typical day in the life of McCain. Pulled between the need to appeal to independent voters and the need to placate the still-suspicious Republican base, McCain has been stutter-stepping his way to the GOP convention.
While it is fair to note McCain's delicate balancing act in reaching out to liberal-leaning independents while working to secure and retain the base conservative Republican vote, the "break a hip" snark is rather uncalled for.
I don't think I'm going out on a limb to predict that should McCain slip in the polls and have a hard time regaining momentum against Obama, someone in the MSM is going to bring back the tag line from the old Lifecall commercial, "I've fallen, and I can't get up!"
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Did Dana Millbank use to
June 17, 2008 - 09:58 ET by mattmDid Dana Millbank use to work for Saturday Night Live? It's about the same level...
Only Conservatives Have Broken Bones
June 17, 2008 - 11:22 ET by zeestephenMcCain's "delicate balancing act?"
Wow.
In the last decade when has McCain NOT been reaching out to the Left?
Last time I looked McCain had only convinced 10% of Bush's 2004 donors to write checks in 2008.
Think maybe that has something to do with his sudden desire to drill for oil?
When it comes to Conservatives, McCain should go back to his original campaign slogan:
"Vote for me because Obama is even worse!"
When you be shilling
June 17, 2008 - 10:03 ET by 10ksnookerFor a full throated Marxist who just happens to be black, what you going to do. All you got is distractions. You obviously can't talk about what Comrade wants to do and what it might mean to the people of America.
Jive talking is all you got...
Incredible and disgusting.
June 17, 2008 - 10:20 ET by futbolisgreat1Incredible and disgusting. If anyone on the right and I believe even in the media were to say that Obama is dancing back and forth and the made fun of how he had a beat or something like that because he is black, the media, the Democrats, Obama, etc would go crazy.
It is disgusting how if you are a Republican (RINO or not), it is ok to make fun of your age, race, gender, etc, etc, etc.......
i do find it amusing, however, how the media's love affair with McCain, The Maverick, has been gone for quite a while now.
Hmmm...now who predicted that would happen? That's right, Rush Limbaugh.
Call it what it is
June 17, 2008 - 10:26 ET by Agrarian-Decentralist"While it is fair to note McCain's delicate balancing act in reaching out to liberal-leaning independents while working to secure and retain the base conservative Republican vote...."
"Delicate balancing act"? How about world-class flip-flopping?
HELLO? AARP? NAP TIME IS OVER!
June 17, 2008 - 10:37 ET by SickofLibsWhere the hell is that huge activist group called the AARP on this?
Or are Medicare deductibles the only thing they care about?
sickoflibs... Don't
June 17, 2008 - 10:52 ET by Clear thinkersickoflibs...
Don't expect AARP to come to anyones defense unless they have a (D) after their name.
I once went to their online forum and found it full of old hippies and old commies wanting nothing more than the gvernment to give them free everything. What I found insane was... they want all this free stuff while at the same time they root for the demise of our government.
"Abstain from McCain"
CT: Oh yeah, I am totally
June 17, 2008 - 11:43 ET by SickofLibsCT: Oh yeah, I am totally aware of AARP's politics. My comment was directed at their obvious cynical nature of not even making the slightest pretense of defending stereotyped discriminatory remarks against their constituency. Kinda like CAIR, only they'd pull up in a Buick to deliver the message.
Obama blew off attending an AARP-sponsored forum in Iowa this past fall; McCain did not.
My Dad is 82; if I ever said to him "Don't break a hip clipping those hedges" he'd kick my ass. And Milbank's, right after that.
My Dad is 82; if I ever
June 17, 2008 - 16:32 ET by red_dragon311My Dad is 82; if I ever said to him "Don't break a hip clipping those hedges" he'd kick my ass. And Milbank's, right after that.
I tried to fight my dad once.........once
and to quote Richard Pryor "old men don't f**k around when they be fighting"
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Gerald Ford
My 16 yr old son, let's say
June 17, 2008 - 16:45 ET by SickofLibsMy 16 yr old son, let's say 'tested me' last year, and he found out Pryor was right on.
I'm happy to report 'no further problems'!
Still got some old Pryor albums, the ones that were considered contraband. Need to get my Onkyo turntable out of the attic some day.
Not just AARP, VOTERS!
June 17, 2008 - 10:59 ET by Ten7sNot just AARP, VOTERS! I've got some news for Obama supporters. You aren't going to get much milage at the ballot box by insulting John McCain's age. Most voters are over 30. Usually, the older you get the more you realize that age usually imparts wisdom with experience and the more you understand and become sympathetic to your elders and less patient with disrespect toward same.
AARP means...
June 17, 2008 - 11:07 ET by wizardjrAARP is the acronym for Anti American Red Proletariat.
It's run by a bunch of 40-something Baby Boomer Marxists.
Frankly, it would be a
June 17, 2008 - 10:48 ET by jdhawkFrankly, it would be a pleasant and unexpected surprise if McCain "broke" a hip moving to the right.
I just doubt that is happening . . . That would be totally out of character for this RINO.
But it is perfectly fine....
June 17, 2008 - 10:52 ET by The Detroit PopulistFor Ann Coulter to make her Racist, Homophobic, Anti-Muslim, Anti-Gay Statements in her Column, because she's a Conservative, right?
Get Real...
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Obama is a Marxist, not to mention an Empty Suit!
http://politicalbyli...
another troll heard from
June 17, 2008 - 11:16 ET by wizardjrPlease give an example of her racism.
Please explain why being against the cultural take over of society and the educational exploitation of children with generally unacceptable sexual matter is homophobia as opposed to disapprobation.
Please explain why you imply that disapproving of a group that goes around cutting peoples' heads off and blowing up thousands of innocent people in the name of their group is wrong or bad?
I'd really like to know.
John McCain is in no danger of breaking a hip
June 17, 2008 - 11:55 ET by allamericangirlWe have seen how flexible he can be bending over backwards and reaching over the isle to the left.
The media seems to be getting away with insulting older people so perhaps we will have to add a new word to our unending list of phobias. Old-ageOphobia.
That way the Obama loving Media would have to come up with a new PC way to insult McCain.
McCain
June 17, 2008 - 12:44 ET by okiehawk44Johnny Mc is going to break more than a hip trying to always get to the "other side" or maybe he'll do it "groveling" or "turning himself inside out" trying to get the adulation of socialist-democrats. That's ok with me Johnny, I just can't stand you.