Here’s something I’ve been trying to wrap my head around, but have not been able to.

Media Narrative 1: McCain really wanted to pick Lieberman for Vice-President, because he likes Lieberman and he is a Maverick. Lieberman, however, would have pissed off the Republican base.

Media Narrative 2: McCain picked Sarah Palin over many more conventional choices because he is Maverick. Also, she happens to cater perfectly to the desires of his raving base.

So basically, whatever McCain does, even if it’s caving to his own desires to settle for someone who placates Conservatives, the media will still call him Maverick. I’m getting to the point where, every time I hear or say Maverick, I feel like I’m being molested in my ear or mouth a little bit.

All I know is, if Sarah Palin were Maverick Tom Cruise’s Top Gun Flight School Instructor in Top Gun the Movie, he would have crashed his fighter jet in World War I, just like Maverick John McCain.

Olds McCain is taking a break from complaining about the weather, his rheumatism, and the tricksy shifts in the world’s geography. Instead he’s bitching about the media’s “love affair” with Barry Obama. Some of his followers are also pissed that the liberal media are still liberal:

How can an antiwar candidate vote against the Bush Surge– a brave maneuver that saved the Middle East from catastrophe, the international community from economic turmoil, and America her reputation– then say he’d do it again after undeniable succes — and still get glowing remarks from the media?
What’s wrong with this picture?
Is it because he looks good in shades? What?

But maybe something else is going on, eh?
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McCain on geography:

We have a lot of work to do and I’m afraid it’s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border.

This “situation” he speaks of is, of course, the existence of Iran and Afghanistan between Iraq and Pakistan.

[LA Times]

Investment scam artist and former Oregon State GOP chairman Craig Berkman is hurling thousands of dollars into the Psychogeezer’s campaign war chest despite the fact that he is tens of millions in the hole to repay all the investors a jury found he stole from them in his scummy investment scam.

The Psychogeezer, Mr. Finance Reform himself, shockingly, is sucking up all the money like a starving dog on a pork loin, Williamette Week reports. The Portland weekly looked in the Federal Election Commission filings and found that Berkman had thrown $50,000 at Republican political enterprise but the biggest chunk of change had gone to the guy who was made famous for putting in the fix for criminal mastermind and S&L bust-out artist Charles Keating: the Psychogeezer.

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Alzheimer’s victim and presumptive Republican candidate for president John ‘Psychogeezer’ McCain proved again that he is a slack-jawed imbecile addled by age and life’s brutalities, pronouncing today at a news conference in Amman that Iran was supporting “Cheetah extremists” who want to enslave Iraq to worship bizarre feline icons or something.

McCain corrects himself on which group Iran backs

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This is a McCain ad made to remind us that John McCain is like Teddy Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, in that there is shitty old black and white footage of all three of them, because they are so very, very, old that the piano was the only instrument available for soundtracks back then (besides the washboard, I guess). Also, there are some supernovas in there or something, because after McCain wins the war in Iraq, he will wage war against the universe, and he will win the only way he knows how - by being tortured in Vietnam and talking about it forever and ever, amen.

Everyone knows GOP presidential candidate John McCain is a raging face-biting lunatic, but in the hallways of the Pentagon, the big brass fear they would have an apocalyptic psycho driving the country to ruin prosecuting wars on every imaginable frontier in an orgy of blood and destruction informed by a twisted man driven by a howling fury. Read the rest of this entry »

Having already written once about how everything Vicki Iseman and McCain are openly accused of doing (as opposed to rumored to have done IN BED) is really just business-as-usual in Washington, I don’t really feel like repeating it. Actually, if they were boning that would be pretty common in Washington, too, but whatevs. Yawn. People cheat on their spouses! News at 11!

Anyway, having already said it’s business as usual, it turns out McCain totally agreed with me… and not just when he was defending himself this week. When he was deposed as part of Senator Mitch McConnell’s lawsuit against the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill, he agreed that meeting with Lowell Paxson and flying on his corporate jet with or without Vicki Iseman and taking his campaign contributions and writing the letter asking the FCC to vote on the station acquisition was business as usual… and that it looked kind of shady. Oh, um, oops. I mean, not that any of that stuff was actually eliminated under McCain-Feingold, or even under the more recent lobbying reform bill (though, they are supposed to pay something closer to the actual value of the corporate jet ticket), but, you know, it looks shady, which is why most Congress Members and Senators don’t like it out there that they do it ALL THE TIME.

Oh, and they might’ve boned. Which is the only reason the story got written in the first place.

A Hole in McCain’s Defense? [Newsweek]

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) stands with his primary opponent for the Republican nomination, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)

John McCain has the Republican nomination all but locked up, but with one small problem: his party’s base hates him with such vitriol that some of the most vocal among them are suggesting supporting Hillary Clinton. McCain earned himself a reputation as a maverick, the kind of guy willing to work with Democrats to get things done. Unfortunately, his compromises brought about the unspeakable infringement of free speech that is that McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law, that actually places a limit on how much people can express their support for a particular candidate in the most beneficial form: dollars*. Disgraceful.

More recently, he was advocate for the President’s Shamnesty immigration bill that would have made it the law for alien Mexicans to kill your children and have their way with your wife. He also refuses to endorse torture as an interrogation method for bloodthirsty Muslim Terrorist Killers (meaning, terrorists who kills, not helpful turncoats who kill Muslim terrorists. Frankly, there aren’t enough of those) because once a long, long time ago some Vietnamese guys didn’t turn his sheets down at the Hilton he was staying in or something. Cry me a river Senator Hasnoballs! And thus, to become president, McCain must run against a rival more stronger, and more wily and cunning than any fascist New York mayor or lunatic, self-hating cult member ever could be: himself. Read the rest of this entry »