Inspired by an awesome FARK thread:
Tag Archives: McCain
Palin & McCain: similarities and differences
- Sarah Palin can "just put down the BlackBerry and pick up the breast pump".
- John McCain invented the BlackBerry.
- Sarah Palin describes herself as a pit bull with lipstick.
- John McCain described his wife as plastering on the makeup like a trollop.
- John McCain has always been very concerned about ‘pork barrel’ spending.
- Sarah Palin has always been very concerned about obtaining ‘pork barrel’ funds.
- Sarah Palin tried to sell the Alaskan state government’s jet plane at fire sale prices on eBay.
- John McCain’s jet plane set fire to the USS Forrestal.
- Sarah Palin has a disabled son.
- John McCain collected a disability pension as well as his $165,000 a year senate salary.
- Sarah Palin is the youngest governor of Alaska.
- John McCain is older than Alaska.
Raise the double standard
The John McCain Suspension of Habeas Corpus / Ignore the Geneva Conventions Bill was getting me down this morning, but suddenly things have turned around. From AP news:
In a scandal guaranteed to anger parents, a prominent House Republican has resigned after the revelation that he exchanged raunchy electronic messages with a teenage boy, a former congressional page.
Rep. Mark Foley, R-Florida, who is single, apologized Friday for letting down his family and constituents. [...]
ABC News reported Friday that Foley also engaged in a series of sexually explicit instant messages with current and former pages, all male. In one message, ABC said, Foley wrote to one page, “Do I make you a little horny?”
In another message, Foley wrote, “You in your boxers, too? … Well, strip down and get relaxed.”
Foley, as chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus, had introduced legislation in July to protect children from exploitation by adults over the Internet. He also sponsored other legislation designed to protect minors from abuse and neglect.
“We track library books better than we do sexual predators,” Foley has said.
Wow. Even for a Republican, that’s pretty rich, and nothing gets my schadenfreude going like seeing someone nailed for rank hypocrisy.
Update: He’s a Scientologist. Jackpot!
John McCain, man of principle
John McCain, official apologist for the Republican Party, has apparently decided that he backs Bush’s decision to operate above the law and let the NSA spy on Americans with no warrants or official oversight required.
He just, you know, wants to hear a good reason why Bush needed to ignore the law. Then it’ll all be all right.
FYI for John McCain supporters
When John McCain said he was against a federal ban on gay marriage, a lot of people thought that meant he was a moderate and a supporter of equal rights who just couldn’t say so for political reasons. Well, no. It turns out he just thinks gay marriage and domestic partner benefits should be constitutionally banned at the state level instead. Which is what he said, albeit omitting spelling out his full thoughts in order to allow wishful thinking.