This epically long election season has clearly taken a toll on John McCain.
The Republican Senator screwed up royally in Western Pennsylvania yesterday when he accidentally sided with Democrats who have called the region racist. Said McCain: “You know, I think you may have noticed that Senator Obama’s supporters have been saying some pretty nasty things about Western Pennsylvania lately. And you know, I couldn’t agree with them more.” Whoops!
The candidate recovered quickly – well, sort of. Rather than backtracking, McCain just kept on rolling. In what direction, however, remained unclear. From HuffPo:
For political humorists it is gold, made even more potent by McCain’s botched attempt at a recovery. “I couldn’t disagree with you,” he declared (referencing what, no one knows). “I couldn’t agree with you more than the fact that Western Pennsylvania is the most patriotic, most god-loving, most, most patriotic part of America, and this is a great part of the country.”
The line was reminiscent of Sarah Palin touting the pro-America parts of the country. And actually could be just as politically dicey than the inadvertent labeling of Western Pennsylvanians as racists.
Speaking of Palin’s “pro-America” remarks the Alaska Governor apologized for those comments yesterday, saying they were misunderstood. Really? Because how else can someone interpret this? “We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard-working, very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation.” That’s pretty cut and dry…
mark
speaking of LOSERS (0.00 / 0)
I saw some footage of that saggy old QUEEN Mitch McConnell and it was PATHETIC.
He was in some tiny diner pressing flesh with the Early Bird Special crowd, and almost pleading for these folks to look at ALL THE EARMARKS he brought back to Kentucky.
http://www.swamppolitics.com/n…
Mitch ….possom
do you really think that during the Financial CRISIS, and McCain p*ssing all over spending and gutting EARMARKS, that’s a winning speel?
btw. that old fossil is now TIED with the challenger and well below 50%…a deadly position for an incumbant
David Gerard
MAN ON FIVE, Cook County, Monday — The McCain campaign is looking at an Electoral College strategy heading into the final two weeks that has virtually no room for error.
“Democrat voting fraud is famous since Tammany Hall,” says Republican strategist Karl Rove. “So we’ll win without votes.”
Voting machines have been remotely reset and the counts adjusted. “Diebold have come to the party big time.” Touch screen machines for West Virginia early voting offer voters “McCAIN” or “REPLY HAZY, TRY AGAIN LATER.”
The rolls will be thoroughly checked for voter fraud. “If the typeface or font size is different on their driver’s licence, Social Security or the voter roll, that’s obvious blatant fraud. A typical Liberal knife to the heart of democracy.”
The party will check for dead voters as well. “We’re making the safe assumption that all registered Democrats are dead. If they’re not, we’ll correct that.” Governor Palin has long dealt with Democrat moose in Alaska. “You betcha!”
All residents of properties whose mortgages were underwritten by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac will be assumed to have voted Republican. “We own the houses, of course we own the votes. It’s nonsense to say otherwise.”
Finally, under USA-PATRIOT, Obama supporters will be deemed associates of associates of terrorists. The offence will carry a penalty of one day’s imprisonment: November 4th.
Mr Rove is confident in the future of our democracy. “One man, one vote. That man being me.”
Source: http://tinyurl.com/5cc3ve
Tim
McCain has very real mental problems. He should be receiving treatment. I feel sorry for him, he is slowly losing his mind.
seitan-on-a-stick
McCain is senile, with dyslexic switching and forgetting what he was saying mid-sentence and more gaffes than a Biden Happy Hour in a Scranton pub. It’s like the continuation of Reagan/George W Edumification for our kids to be learnt. No Adult Child-like mind Left Behind!!
Chris
This was just a gaffe on the part of McCain. I don’t see why we need to use their own tactics. Who cares what McCain said when you clearly know what he meant.
Can you believe we are a couple weeks away from the first African American President. As a white flag burning liberal I am so proud. I did not think America would open up like this in my lifetime. And the fact that his name strikes fear in rednecks is awesome. I thought Liberals were suppose to be the ones so easily scared by terrorism.
I am so friggin excited, and worried at the same time. Seems Repubs are up to their old voter fraud tricks. I hope some main stream media picks up on the story.
Steve
The honorable thing for McCain to do would be to endorse Obama and withdraw from the race. Then the country and the economy could begin to heal.
greatpacho
I agree with Steve, this is just a funny kind of “fool me once” kind of moment that could happen to anyone giving two speeches a day for the past couple of months. I wish the people in the background had reacted appropriately to his blunder. I guess the fact that they are at a McCain rally shows that they aren’t really all that good at listening in the first place.
Its sad that such a cute girl is a Republican. Hopefully, after a few years of an Obama presidency she will come to the light.