A Thought On The Speech Pre-emption Deal

Update: Final question, if McCain stepped on Huckabee's speech and Romney did the same thing to McCain for whatever reason, doesn't McCain's hissy fit make him look like a prima donna? Or is this just McCain's uncontrollable temper popping off? Bryan has video of the sequence.

It's being suggested that Romney deliberately walked over McCain's concession speech.

Romney can respond for himself. But I did notice that Fox went to Huckabee for his speech and waited and waited until it almost became a joke. Is it possible there was a mix up as Huckabee set the whole process back?

And, by the way, McCain stepped on Huck's speech, ... so.

Comments

[Allen Wood]

Personally, I cheered when McCain's speech was stepped on, but I do think timing is partially to blame. However, in Iowa when Mitt came in a strong second place we didn't get to hear his speech!

[Sandra]

so right , we did not even get to hear Romney's speech, I could not figure out what happened, huckabee is the one who slowed everyone up, I do not believe at all that ROMNEY did this on purpose.

[Lisa]

What whiners! Mitt's concession speech wasn't played live in NH and the Romney campaign didn't start crying. I'm sure this was Huckleberry's fault. His campaign is a total joke.

[mike]

Mitt wiped the floor with McCain, 9%...this was called a nail biter...I don't think so. Give him credit.

[cindi]

boring, not to mention expected. Any real candidates out there? You know, guys with balls?

[Cory]

McCain is just a big baby. I'm surprisd he didn't have an anger-induced tantrum right then and there. Oh, wait, he probably did. If McCain gets the nomination he'll be done immediately after his first violently angry rant.

[rwilymz]

"Any real candidates out there? You know, guys with balls?"

There's always Hillary. She has balls.

[Waho Willie Sez:]

"Any real candidates out there? You know, guys with balls?"

"There's always Hillary. She has balls."

I agree that Hildabeast is the manliest of the bunch and has 35 years experience and all, but she keeps her balls in a little cigarette case wrapped in her crying towel. Never knows which she'll need most.

[lj]

Huckabee was about 30 minutes late starting his speech and then he went into full campaign mode, which caused the timing problem. It was all Huckabee's fault!!! Did anyone really feel bad about not hearing McCain's speech?

[chris]

"I agree that Hildabeast is the manliest of the bunch"

I have to agree that Hillary has way more balls than the dried up drunk that you have now. Cowering in a bunker on 9/11, making out with Saudi leaders - not much of a leader, that Decider. He was a fine cheerleader though.

[Fred Beloit]

chris means the guy who ended the reign of a tyrant and turned Iraq into a democratic state. No thanks necessary, chris, just doing his job.

[rwilymz]

"Hillary has way more balls than the dried up drunk that you have now."

It's never a safe thing to go around making circumstantial insults; it's only a matter of time before they can be redirected at the insulter.

If you have specific criticisms of any public official, it's best to be specific about it, and not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

To wit: there are a huge number of "dried-out drunks" in both parties, not to mention future convicted felons, that using such methods typically means that the insulter [in this case: you] are seriously grasping for relevance.

"Cowering in a bunker on 9/11"

Case in point.

The Continuity of Government plan was passed into law in 1947, and requires certain and specific measures to be taken upon persons in high government office, including the Prez, Veep, USSC Justices and various specific Congressional leaders and Secretaries, by force if need be, by agents of the US Secret Service.

If Bush hadn't gone quietly with his Secret Service detail to AF1, and thence to Offutt, he would have been restrained and taken anyway.

You're "cowering in a bunker" line is ever so cliche, and it most certainly plays to the idiots and nincompoops who are predisposed to knee-jerk denunciation of current politics, but it's fairly prima facie evidence that you don't know what you're talking about -- or that you do, but that you're deliberately dishonest.

Knowing you, however, I'd have to conclude that you're just an ignoramus.

"He was a fine cheerleader though."

AKA: he was doing pretty much what we've come to expect of our presidents, and pretty much what they're properly limited to.

In other words, he was doing his job. It's just that the way he did it does not conform to your wishes, and therefore you're going to whizz all over everything in sight.

Drink lotsa water, mictu-boy; you don't want to get dehydrated.