Given McCain’s selection of the scandal-beset Sarah Palin for Vice President, the last thing his campaign wanted was the image of a heartless, indifferent group of blindingly white people dancing the night away while the South struggled with yet another natural disaster. So the McCain campaign handed down a stern edict: "No celebrating!"
This is what they got instead. Photo ops of John McCain putting dishwasher detergent in a care package (um, a dishwasher? With what electricity, y’all?). Cindy McCain and Laura Bush tut-tutting with the Louisiana delegation. Pink boas, pink wigs, a strutting Tom DeLay lobbyist, and a band called "Hookers and Blow."
I ask you this: How is he supposed to command respect from foreign leaders if he can’t even control his own Convention?
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WT! Hookers & Blow! It’s the Gooper way to happiness.
watertiger!
watertiger!
Hey, WT.
Hookers & Blow?!! OMFG. We can’t make this shit up!
FunnyD
Rough is the lake water, tiger. Hello!
WT!
This is unquestionably the worst managed, totally fucked up campaign I have ever seen in 56 years. It is truly a joy to behold. 8-)
Hookers & Blow! It’s the Gooper way to happiness.
But ya gotta feel for the poor prostitutes.
I hope they’re being properly compensated for enduring the blecchhh factor.
It is indeed wonderful. It’s a blooper campaign.
There ain’t enough money and drugs in the world to compensate those poor girls (and boys – let’s not forget little Larry and his buds).
“I ask you this: How is he supposed to command respect from foreign leaders if he can’t even control his own Convention?”
Well, he could offer to Vlad Putin to send Hookers and Blow to Russia in a cultural exchange program…
oh, right. you said “command respect.” sorry.
here’s a woman being pepper-sprayed at close range by a marching legion of police while standing on the side of the road holding a flower.
http://www.indybay.org/uploads…..pepper.mpg
(from Glennzilla’s place)
Wow! Hookers and Blow! What’s tonight, do you suppose? Boy-Interns and Meth?
is there an echo in here?
Wolcott has an interesting take (as only he can) on the preggers Bristol.
Got to agree with you there. Kind of like a strong wind came along and blew everything away.
dugg and thanks to yellowdogjim for opening it
Oh sweet syrupy Jeebus Melba. I really am starting to have flashbacks to 1968.
Seriously, four drunken gophers could run a better campaign.
I have no idea what that means; I just like the way it sounds.
But, WT… Waah, leave
BritneyBristol alone…!It really is almost as though they are not even trying.
Either that or turn on a light.
This is unquestionably the worst managed, totally fucked up campaign I have ever seen in 56 years. It is truly a joy to behold. 8-)
I gotta call my Irish bookie to check out the odds on Palin hanging on long enough to give her speech on Wednesday….
Crazy shit, huh? Boy-Interns and meth? Are ya feeling youthful and adventurous this evening? You’re not pregnant are you? How ’bout a little spumoni instead?
The thing that really ticked me off was the two Stepford wives talking about (pretend the snotty voice) “We have to take off our Republican hats now and put on our American hats”
WTF….. I NEVER take off my American hat, even when I travel in Europe…… IT is my hat all the time…..
This by the woman who stalks 12 year olds and publishes the personal information of teenagers. Right! I am going to take that real seriously. Though I have to agree that the kids are off limits (but momma’s support of abstinence only and forced-birth are fair game).
Four Drunk Gophers would also be a good band name.
Well, MN is the Gopher State and the gopher is the mascot of the University of MN.
I am sure Brian Ross is on the case.
He also said it was time to take off their “Republican Hats.” Is anyone surprised that when they did, they showed their ass?
From Wolcott:
The man can write. Now that’s some vivid imagery.
Gotta admire the hypocrisy…! ;-)
Oh, I think she is in it for the long haul, as we discussed yesterday. If McCain dumps her it is an admission that he made a mistake, which he will never do, and the whole judgment issue blows up bigger than Gustav at its strongest.
It’s the only one I own, but then I am not a Rethug.
I wonder if anyone has asked the mayor of St. Paul if he has an estimate on how many millions the city will have to pay out in lawsuits.
Teddy,
Saw your great post over at Kos. Seems like it took awhile for folks their to get onto the Minneapolis stuff. Saw that McJoan has it front and center now.
Noonan does pained sighs better than anyone I’ve ever seen. Poor dear. s/
Yep.
But doesn’t that imply Bristol chose?
As if Bristol made a choice?
I do not think that word means what Malkin thinks it means.
Republican pols consider them complimentary flavors, kind of like peaches and cream.
Nope, even though she does take the gold in this event.
Yeah. Bristol chose that like I chose to give my wallet to the mugger when he stuck the gun in my face.
This is what happens when young women don’t know about birth control. I feel quite sure that she would rather not have a baby at 17. Ignorance can kill you.
See, if we look at the campaign like it’s a fighter jet, then all of this makes perfect sense.
It tells you everything……Party over Country…. Party over constitution…. Party over the Rule of Law…… Party over every damn thing in this country …..
Now that ABC has confirmed that Palin was/is in fact a member of the separatist Alaska Independence Party, is it fair to ask the “Country First” campaign, Which Country?
That’s right, if she’d chosen otherwise, her mom would have killed her.
And also as a compliment to a fine evening out. Sort of like an after dinner mint. 8-P
I emailed him just that query. Waiting for his reply. I am his constituent.
,i>I wonder if anyone has asked the mayor of St. Paul if he has an estimate on how many millions the city will have to pay out in lawsuits.
After (hopefully) each person arrested demands a full-blown criminal jury trial, the deluge of civil suits can begin in earnest. Those who were wrongfully detained and released can go ahead and start theirs now.
But there is nothing like a nice Not-Guilty finding for the underpinning of a successful civil suit.
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.
Fucking Cindy McCain has never worried about money a day in her life. I’d like to see how she does with no money, no job and piss poor prospects for having a job.
As for Palin, sorry, she reminds me of a Dallas real estate broker. I bet she has a bimbo ring on every finger.
I hope they have insurance on the carrier he is about to crash into.
For me, but not for thee.
So Bristol is pro-choice?
Suggest that he pass the bill along to the RNC, after all they oppose raising taxes to pay for this sort of thing, don’t they?
Yeah, but your peaches and cream combo leaves a better taste in your mouth. I think, can’t really speak from experience.
I’m too old for some of this sh*t.
I feel quite sure that she would rather not have a second baby at 17.
Color me still not convinced.
707! Yep, the man’s a service ace… Taking out 5 American jets…! Of course, none of the enemy’s …!
tucker i’m just gonna give it to ya baby is upstairs
McCain actually flew a bomber. Well, as it turned out, more of a dive-bomber. Regardless, it is a good campaign analogy. Too bad this time there won’t be any helpful VC around to fish him out of the drink.
That shithead would have never gotten into Pensacola had it not been for his Admiral daddy.
Saw a picture today in one of the Kos diaries today (not sure which linked there from another blog, but cannot remember which) of an obviously pregnant late term Gov. Palin. I think we need to let that one go. Her judgment in taking a 12 hour flight after her water broke, on the other hand becomes fair game.
Obama just on CNN talking to AC about the situation in NOLA. Very smart and totally in touch to the minute.
See PW’s mention of Alaska blogger site, Mudflats. Go there, folks!
Let’s not absolve her fiancee-to-be of responsibility, I’m pretty confident they sell condoms in Alaska too. Unfortunately, neither of them could conceive the correct course of action.
If Bristol and Levi were really in love…wouldn’t you think that they would have gotten married at the first tests that showed she was pregnant? Or at least that they would have broached it to the parents.
Seems that the delay was either because the parents were looking into “other options” or that one (or both) of the two kids (Levi is a kid, isn’t he?) were against getting married.
And what mother would reveal their daughters pregnancy…when the release of her own obstetric records would have shown that she was Trigs mom? That would be the simplest thing…especially since she was so “detailed” in describing the tests showing her baby had Trisomy-21, that she broke water and flew back 5000 miles to give birth, etc. She still hasn’t provided any records that establishes her pregnancy. Instead she reveals Bristols? And here again we are to rely on her statement that Bristol is 5 months pregnant!
If you have a link I would like to see it. The only picture I saw of Palin pregnant was from an earlier pregnancy compared with her supposed most recent one. The difference was striking.
DrDick,
Your photo of you as a baby almost made me cry! Sitting on the plow…
Yep. My first time in the field. 8-)
Fly by; caring for my own new premie grandbabies….parents together for 11 years, married (legally & emotionally & morally) for 4 years. Sarah Palin (I remember being nonplussed, as it were) showed incredibly poor judgment in flying a commercial flight (how the hell did she even get on the plane?) after her water broke. Sarah Palin has also just shown the utter insanity of ‘abstinence teaching’ since her own daughter got pregnant so goofily. This woman is Eagleton redux…….I’m sure she will soon decide that her family comes first (after trashing them — subjecting them to unpleasant public scrutiny) and withdraw, in which case we will finally get Mitty-Boy or Pawlenty. But how terribly sad for 17 year old Bristol to have been sold out by her own mother. Just terribly sad.
This whole thing goes to JUDGMENT…..
-McCain’s judgment on not vetting his Veep pick
-Palin taking the Veep slot even knowing that her teenager daughter is pregnant
-Palin knowing all the scandals running through Alaska and attached to her
-Palin for lying about the bridge to no where first I was for it and now I’m against it
-Mcain for having 6 months to vet a Veep and rushing his pick when he saw how f*cked he would be after last week
-Palin for choosing Career, Veep, Fame & spotlight over her teenager daughter who does not deserve this AND a 5 month old special needs infant who needs his mother..
JUDGMENT….
We’re all pulling for you.
The picture I was thinking of was this one:
http://i33.tinypic.com/mt70d4.jpg
We are the same age — pics of me in PA don’t involve farms. The few that I have picture me in my Dad’s car, like me in the rumble seat!
Thank God the AZ state primary is tomorrow….. I am so tired of the Repugs call themselves “true Conservatives” and watching Sheriff Joe endorsing them…. shutter…
That was taken on my grandfather’s farm in southwest Missouri in the early 1950s, where he was attempting to make a living farming 60 acres of flint rock and post oak with a horse team. Kept it up until the late 1960s, when his kids finally convinced him to retire. He was in his 70s at the time.
Ha,ha! You are so funny, and I really like having you here at FDL.
You know, I can’t even imagine. My parents are east coast folks that worked in the airline/auction industry in Manhattan, and then moved to Delaware for Sunoco and family. I was the first college grad in my family. Mr. CE and I still have four living parents. !!!
Sorry, I am way OT. But Hey DrDick, that was fun to see your photos.
I, on the other hand, am the oldest living member of my family and the oldest living bearer of my surname.
I, too, am the oldest living member of my family. Make me feel like a mummy or something :)
Although McJoan thinks it’s happening in Minneapolis.
But just wait till John and Sarah get into office. Let them eat caribou jerky. This is even better than Karl Rove calling Joe Biden a blowhard doofus. These guys may stay in office, bamboozle the nation, and wreck the world, but no one quite plays the fool like they do, their only redeeming grace.
It really is a pretty weird feeling, I have to say, especially since I am only in my 50s.
I could share them…
Did Karl Rove really call Joe Biden a doofus?
Yep. Here is the link.
Yes indeed. And it also speaks to the abysmal lack of judgment in the American electorate who bid fair to elect these bufoons. They haven’t disappointed in this before. One can’t go far wrong understimating their cupidity and ignorance.