Via Radar Online, the type of incisive political reporting you’d expect to read over on Slog:
In the final days of his imploding candidacy, John McCain has taken a page out of Richard Nixon’s play book, finding increasingly bizarre explanations for his political failures. Strangest of all: He reportedly feels his handlers forced him to wear “gay sweaters.”
According to one insider, the knit-picking was the crescendo of a tirade by the Arizona senator, in which he blistered aides about the minutiae of the campaign. While many septuagenarians live in a perpetual state of sweater weather, McCain reportedly declared his frustration with being told to don the perceived homosexual outerwear in order to look younger and more approachable.
“He wasn’t happy being dictated to. The sweaters were part of that,” the source says.
[…] The McCain campaign did not officially respond for comment, but one source that has been close to the senator poses the question most J. Crew shoppers are no doubt asking: “How can a crew-neck sweater make you look gay? They make him look silly, sure. Old, too. But not gay. That’s Romney’s department.”
Why, oh why are Republicans all so obsessed with teh gay?
It’s because it’s forbidden fruit. I don’t think they are allowed to have ANY sex, and it clearly frustrates them.
HERE’S SOMETHING FOR PUDDYBUD (I KNOW YOU’RE STILL LURKIN’ OUT THERE).
I TOLD YOU PUDDY. YOUR PEEPS WITH AN “R” NEXT TO THEIR NAMES CAN’T STAND THE BROWN-SKINNED AND THOSE OF DARKER SHADES OF SKIN COLOR.
Anybody with a modicum of sense knows McCain is tempramentally unfit to be president…the guy is a walking time bomb, and he is an up and down the line fascist corporate suckup.
One candidate down…Rudy and his criminal cohort bite the dust next.
2008=electoral slaughter for the GOP. Romney tying Ron Paul on top of his SUV will be a joke.
http://gophypocrites.com/2007/07/hyp07028.html
Bob Allen, a Florida Republican State Rep., Allegedly Offered to Blow an Undercover Cop for $20 Bucks in a City Park Washroom. The Man Who Used to Coach Little League and Is Married with Child is Our BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week. Not Only Is He, Allegedly, a Repressed Perv, He Goes Down Cheap Too! By the Way, Get a Load of the Bills He Co-Sponsored in the FL Legislature. Our Favorites: “Sexual Solicitation and Abuses, and Lewdness and Indecent Exposure.”
Thank goodness this fruitcake will never get close to the White House.
headless lucy,
That is exactly what I’m talking about! So obsessed with teh gay sexx that he has to solicit strangers in public restrooms. “Please, oh please, can I smoke your pud? I’ll give you 20 bucks if you’ll let me touch your man-meat!” So pathetic.
This exchange between me and Proud Leftist is so good, I am going to post it in every thread on HA from now on. It destroys the Publicans’ stupid talking points – period.
“I’m working really hard to understand how President Bill Clinton’s actions act as justifcation for the righties. Read this fuckwads.
If your lame ass argument is that Bill Clinton was a bad President – which is what you say – and if your argument now is that the AWOL coward GW Bush is in someway comparable to Bill Clinton, what you are actually saying is that GW Bush is NO BETTER THAN CLINTON.
Does it hurt to be that stupid? I really want to know.
proud leftist says:
RES @ 18
You’ve hit it on the nose. The rightwing fringefucks consider Clinton to be the personification of evil–indeed, he is the devil incarnate in their twisted little minds. Nonetheless, their justification for all of the Bushites’ sins is, always, “well, Clinton did it, too.” Methinks they never studied logic.”
And what’s better, is that the rightie traitor keeps pointing out that this is true. Thanks MTR. Please keep proving my point for me.
Absolutely fabulous post, Goldy!
“knit-picking”
Most excellent wordplay by those Radar Online folks.
How did he know that the sweater was gay? Was it out of the closet? Personally, I think he should swap his gay sweater for a straight jacket.
None of my sweaters have sex at all– they’re all virgin wool!
The sweater would have been even gayer if he’d been wearing some white Vans.
… and walking a Pomeranian.
I’d say McCain is pretty much done. Time to retire quietly.
It’s not just gay SWEATERS that get McCain hot.
If you know what I mean.
I’m just sayin…