Found In Flagrante: McCain Hearts Bush
During the months to come, it will please Republicans if their Dear Leader vanishes from the media, the better not to upset independents with delicate constitutions. McCain will leapfrog Bush and embrace the ghost of Reagan. There will be much talk of a post-Bush era even as New Leader McCain dances his tightrope dance. McCain is already running commercials in which he claims to have "enlisted as a foot soldier in the Reagan revolution" while he was imprisoned by the North Vietnamese--at a time when Reagan was governing California, not commanding the national revolution. Movement conservatives will chalk up the disasters of recent years to Bush's not having been sufficiently conservative. George who?
But never forget that leaders come and go while the bulldozer of movement conservatism rolls on. So tune up your memories with this poster that needs no words:
Old-timers will recall the 1972 Warhol poster of a fangy looking Nixon adorned with these words only: VOTE MCGOVERN.
And this:
Comments (17)
Please don't mention McGovern in the context of this election.
February 9, 2008 12:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not just no, but HELL no! God forbid anyone should mention the last liberal candidate the Dems put up!
No. what we progressives should do is campaign for the candidate that both Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh heart. Hillary will fix what's wrong with the Democratic Party by re-making it as the Republican Party That Doesn't Like Flag Burning But Does Embrace Kyle/Lieberman.
Let's all pull for the woman who would rather be Right -- to the right of Scalia on at least one issue -- AND president.
February 9, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
This Reagan worship has gotten way out of hand. Reagan has been out of office for nearly 20 years and the American landscape has changed dramatically - economic, demographic, social, political.
This is becoming almost as pathetic as watching the 1980s HS Basketball champions continually relive their glory days - 40 pounds later.
February 9, 2008 3:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
This Reagan worship has gotten way out of hand. Reagan has been out of office for nearly 20 years and the American landscape has changed dramatically - economic, demographic, social, political.
This is becoming almost as pathetic as watching the 1980s HS Basketball champions continually relive their glory days - 40 pounds later.
February 9, 2008 3:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
There have been a few pictures of Bush and McCain on the campaign plane, I believe it's from 2000, right after McCain forced himself to endorse Bush. Bush is acting the alpha male, his arm around McCain's shoulders, joking with the press, so proud of himself for having forced someone who clearly despises him to grovel. McCain looks irritated and resentful, as I'm sure he was. He deserves all the humiliation. Now if we can just find the pictures of Bush kissing McCain on top of his baldy head, that really oughta drive him nuts.
(And it's worth pointing out that the picture with the birthday cake was taken as New Orleans was drowning)
February 9, 2008 3:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
That huggy picture is one of the more disgusting things I've ever seen.
February 9, 2008 4:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Commander Codpiece and Captain Huggies.
February 10, 2008 4:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
Todd:
Great photo. Sort of has a "Larry Craig" element to it.
tlees2: Bettter get used to it!
-Dave Adams
February 9, 2008 5:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
These pictures remind me of a column by Molly Ivins in the aftermath of the 2004 elections.
She asked: Do you know how to cure a chicken-killing dog?
Then she went on in her inimitable style to describe the cure: you take the dead chicken and attach it to the guilty dog in such a way that he or she cannot get rid of the chicken. After the chicken has rotted for several days, she said, the dog is a lot less likely to do it again.
(Shout from the back of the room: "A link, already!")
OK, here it is: http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1112-24.htm
The carcass of the utterly failed Bush administration needs to be tied firmly to McCain, and no other strategy is necessary.
February 9, 2008 10:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Dems had the chance to hang that dead chicken around the Republicans' neck. It would have helped if they opposed the Iraq war and corporate control of the US economy effectively. Having bought the war over the last year, and slurped up that corporate money for the last thirty years, with no sign of abatement, that dead chicken stinks almost as much for the Ds as for the Rs.
February 10, 2008 3:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
I don't smell any dead chicken on Obama.
February 10, 2008 12:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Yes I'm a short son of a bitch, my daddy was a short son of a bitch, my mother was shorter than him, and my brother, my brother was so short we couldn't even see him." Richard Pryor in "Stir Crazy" at the 4 minute mark of the "We're Bad" clip.
February 10, 2008 3:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Don't forget the latest support Bush is giving McCain. He'll want to forget that happened come the fall, but there have been recordings made...
The birthday photo is particularly aggravating to me, since a friend of mine was lost in New Orleans at that moment (she survived), and other friends were evacuating and getting extensive flood damage. Put it together with shots of people on roof tops, caption "LET THEM EAT CAKE."
February 10, 2008 12:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
THIS IS A SICK JOKE. Can't help myself.
Notice in the photo of McCain hugging Bush that due to injuries suffered while a prisoner of war that McCain cannot lower his left arm as far as he would like.
(Told you it was sidk)
February 10, 2008 1:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh he can get the hand down there.
http://www.basehead.org/files/shots/1-mccain_bush_hug.jpg
And it looks like they've had many other touching moments.
http://pinkdome.com/archives/bush_mccain_400.jpg
http://www.electjohnmccain2008.com/images/bush-mccain.jpg
http://www.asuwebdevil.com/images/issues/p3-bush-web.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/randomfactor/2127866122/
February 10, 2008 10:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've had some moments when Bill Clinto drove me to question if I could vote for Hillary in the general if Obama does not get the nomination. This picture gets me back on the dem track - it's powerful!
February 10, 2008 4:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
The way to beat McCain, it would seem to me, is obvious, in case some have overlooked it:
Every day of the campaign, people must be reminded of the Iraq War, and what staying there means not only for the lives (or deaths) of servicepersons, as well as America's image around the world -- remember, this is a general election and not a global analysis -- and in particular the TRILLIONS of dollars that the war has entailed and would entail if McCain occupies the oval office. People may be concerned about the economy as the number one issue -- so reminding them of the economic albatross that is the Iraq War should help concentrate enough minds to carry the Democrats through the election.
Slightly off topic but important to consider: over at DU (Democratic Underground), Hillary Clinton supporters often dismiss Obama's wins primarily in red states neither he nor HRC are likely to carry in November (Alaska, Idaho, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, North Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Utah & such) But one reason Democrats in those states might be inclined to vote for Obama is that they cannot but be painfully aware of what having Hillary Clinton at the top of the ticket means for the Democratic Party in those states. It is a COMPLETE fallacy to think that who the Democrats nominate is relevant only in the blue and purple states; in key ways, who the Democratic nominee is is more important for elections in Texas than in Massachusetts.
February 11, 2008 10:33 PM | Reply | Permalink