And So It Begins: Newsweek Channels Chuck Norris

Tonight Senator John McCain won Florida, he is now the presumptive nominee. And so he begins to lose his largest fan base. Great, just freakin' great.

Here's my unscientific theory about the presidency: it ages a person in dog years. Each year in office is roughly equivalent to seven years in the life of an ordinary citizen. I base this on before-and-after photographs of the occupants of the Oval Office, who frequently look as though they've spent their time in captivity, being beaten with sticks. Which may help explain why 71-year-old John McCain, who actually has been beaten in captivity, may think that the fact that he would be the oldest person ever to enter the job is immaterial. In this, alas, he is mistaken.

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[Roy Mustang]

That's why McCain's mom looks like his wife and his wife looks like his daughter. Yeah, that's the reason.

[seekeronos]

What makes McCain completely unaccountable to the base is the fact that he *knows* he probably won't make it through a second term (at least with his mental faculties intact) ... so he will do whatever the heck he likes.

Which will likely include pushing through the first round of shamnesty that Kennedy can pump through the DemCong.

[seekeronos]

"--- when a boy at one event asked him respectfully if he was too old for the job, he responded with his trademark acerbic humor, "Thanks for the question, you little jerk." ---"

Good Old (and I do mean old) John Mud-slinging, robo-calling, Grumpy Gus McCain.

Not even a young boy is safe from his acid wit.

[Roy Mustang]

And everybody in the audience laughed heartily. I guess only RINOS have a sense of humor.

President McCain's illegal Amensty bill will be meet with the same force as President Bush's illegal Amensty bill. Leaders like Senator Sessions will again stop Shamnesty in its tracks.

[LOL]

rofl he won by 100,000 votes about. That's what it's looking like. What is it with wingers and their anti-midas touch? First they liked Fred! and maybe Giuliani. Then they liked Romney.

Rofl. It's as if hardly anyone else agrees with you guys!

[jkatl]

What a dissapointment. How can reasonable republicans vote for this ill tempered ill mannered, contentious, phony, who had to lie to win florida. And I have lost all respect for Gov. Crist who as far as I'm concerned showed his true colors(which is awfully tan by the way). In three short days he went from, in my mind, a gov who cared about the state and people of florida to a sellout ,out for himself, political climber reminiscent of the clintons. If he gets the vp nod he essentially say kiss off florida. I'm going to Washington and I'm bringing my tanning bed with me. On Friday and early saturday Romney was up in some polls by 5-6% , then Crist bends over and the rest is history, and guess who is right off mccains right shoulder, Mr. Bronze, the only other person visible in the camera shot during mccains victory speech. Strange Crist is 50 something years old no kids no wife. But back to Mccain. People will dismiss this as swiftboating and roll their eyes but take a cruise around vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com some interesting stuff there. I wonder how he answers the question of why he was one of the only pows who was not promoted during captivity. The Navy's way of saying we are well aware of what you did during captivity. I wonder if he can explain why shortly after he was captured American jets shot down increased 60 %. Course he's apparantly not an excellent driver. While flying for the navy he some how managed to put not one, not two, not three but count em FOUR multi million dollar jets in to the drink or dirt. And you mccain voters are voting for him to pilot this nation???? This is a man who relishes picking fights with his own party on key republican issues because he somehow enjoys it. Straight talking maverick - what a bunch of absolute garbage. It is truly a sad day, I don't see how he can be stopped. In my initial anger I thought a similar thing that dan did. I'd almost rather vote for Hillary than Mccain in the general. But then later when I cooled down a little bit I heard a good point made on CNN. If there are suddenly two vacancies on the supreme court do you want mccain to pick the nominees or do you want Hillary picking them. We could be screwed either way. And who knows what the hell will happen if the nominees are picked by President Crist.

[Roy Mustang]

When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn’t like it.

Compromise was a dirty word to them and they wouldn’t face the fact that we couldn’t get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don’t get it all, some said, don’t take anything.

I’d learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: ‘I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.’

If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.

[BobInStamford]

Well, having the flip-flopper to go after for 10 months would have been a bigger laugh, but Bob Dole Part Deux will do. It's the 21st century and the best that the GOP has is an angry OLD man whose main claim to fame is that he spent some time in the Ho Chi Minh City Hyatt.

Again, in the words of a true leader - Bring em on!

[Fred Beloit]

Well, the Dems are no better, Boob. You've got the candidate whose whole story is her husband. (She may also now be termed the Lady in Red.) And you have the basically one year in the Senate experience of Obama. Tell me about how great these qualifications are.

My county voted for Romney. One of my fellow Bay Countians wrote to the local paper as follows: "How smart do you have to be to understand that both the Democrats[ics] and Republicans are each a wing off the same buzzard?" [Addition by yours truly]

That about sums up the current candidates I'd say.

[Chris]

I just wish that the Hero of 9/11 and his princess had hung around through 2/5 so he could have come in 3rd in NY. 9/11 - Never Forget!

[templar knight]

Fred, the Boob wants George Soros to run everything, that's why he loves the potential nominees of the Democratics, all three of whom are tuned in to the nutroot hordes bought and paid for by Soros.

[Ed Flinn]

Vote Whig in 2012? We'll need an animal mascot to compete with elephant and donkey.

[Chris]

'Vote Whig in 2012'

John McCain is old enough to have voted for the Whigs back in the day.

[joeb]

Yes he looks old. But he doesnt act old. His mother is 95 by the way so maybe he has good genes. But yes he is old to be taking on the Presidency. I would like to have someone younger or at least a strong VP for McCain. Who would that likely be????

[seekeronos]

"--- Yes he looks old. But he doesnt act old. His mother is 95 by the way so maybe he has good genes. But yes he is old to be taking on the Presidency. I would like to have someone younger or at least a strong VP for McCain. Who would that likely be???? ---"

That depends (Depends! Hah!) on who between Huckabuck and Rudy G. kisses Johnny Mac's old wrinkled bottom the best.

[seekeronos]

At Roy:

The 75%-80% mentioned by Ronaldus Magnus would be nice, if that is what Johnny Mac was angling for.

Problem is, I think that Johnny Mac will be angling for giving away 75% of the republic to the Aztlan Nation, and 80% of the GOP platform to being controlled by Kennedy, Feingold, and the rest of his Donkey Kongress.

Only marginally better than the Hildabeest or Islamobama, since we then get to worry about replacing the two SCOTUS justices who are likely to drop dead before 2012 with folks only slightly to the right of Karl Marx vs. a (D) orgy of joy in slapping up two of George Soros's closest buddies to effectively ban the Constitution.