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Here's one last reason I think McCain is more likely to choose Lieberman as his running mate: Joe's physique and appearance will not upstage the allegedly petty and petulant McCain.
Next to Romney, McCain would look exceptionally short, cadaverous, and "a little thin up there." Wouldn't it be deluxe if McCain, standing next to Romney in the sun, suddenly melted down forever: "At least I don't slather on the mousse like a trollop, you cunt!"
Update: Upon McCain's choice of the foxy Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for his running mate, several thoughts occur to me. First, McCain will still look exceptionally cadaverous and "a little thin up there" next to Governor Palin. (He may look short next to her also, but I don't know how tall she is out of spikes.) Second, McCain's selection of a governor with only 2 years of state-level administrative experience indicates how desperately and deeply he had to reach into the Republican bench to find a running mate who doesn't threaten his ego and has no established PR negatives on the "national stage." Third, Governor Palin hails from what is probably the most politically corrupt state, per capita, in the nation ("google" Senator Ted Stevens and U.S. Rep. Don Young, for example, then google any other name mentioned as indicted or a person of interest in an investigation). So not surprisingly, she already has her own share of baggage to talk about. Fourth, and finally: what Atrios says: Palin's name has barely surfaced in the corporate media over the past month as a prospective McCain VP choice. Although her selection has apparently doomed my Petraeus/Lieberman '08 nightmare ticket, and with it my future as even a second-tier national blogger, I was closer to being right than the bona fide pundits and lefty bloggers were: McCain selected a longshot with at least some history of making social policy in contravention to the right-wing company line (as seen on TPM).
As an aside, I see that there are lots of references on the web to Governor Palin being a "GILF". I wonder what that means.
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the larger part of your prediction isn't doomed. McCain will not make to the Nov. 4 election. Like McCain's piloting skills, this isn't going to fly. Now there's a dozen more reasons the GOP bosses aren't going to allow this mess to continue. Maybe they'll let a cheesy convention next week nominate these 2 but wait for October. McCain will
ReplyDelete"disappear". Petraeus is as good a bet as any to pick up the filthy baton.
John McCain is a suicide bomber and he's walking right into the middle of the Republican party. Adios, my friend...
ReplyDeleteBO: I agree with your "dozens more reasons" observation, or at least I agree that there are several more. In fact, I wouldn't even be surprised if Palin withdraws her own nomination after all the Washington "mean girls" start to pile on with regard to topics such as her lack of experience, her own brewing scandals, etc. And there must be a whole new Republican contingent that now thinks McCain is completely off his rocker. But whatever the GOP may have gained with some high-risk, shock-doctrine convention developments leading toward Petraeus/Lieberman '08, even the hypothetical benefits of that bold tactic have now been somewhat compromised with a VP nomination that looks desperate and amateurish. Then, to further rain on Karl Rove's parade, potentially, there's a hurricane with a sinister-sounding European name lurking in the Caribbean.
ReplyDeleteAnon: interesting metaphor. I assume you meant it as a metaphor, because this blog does not condone violence in any form other than metaphorical. But then again, it would simplify the drafting and delivery of his acceptance speech: "Hasta la vista; I von't be bock."