HOW DID McCAIN EVER GET SUCH A NICE REPUTATION?

Tweety divulges who McCain's real base is

My friend Seymour just called me from Paris-- on his way back to NYC after a trip to India-- and he's pissed off. He's not as grouchy or grumpy as McCain but he's seems to think Obama is too young and inexperienced. "I'm voting for McCain," he bellowed, truculently, almost like "Get those damn kids off my lawn." But he never will.

We didn't know each other at the time, but in the course of the phone call we discovered that our parents had brought both of us to Dubrow's Cafeteria on the corner of 16th Street and Kings Highway to meet Senator John F Kennedy. Seymour's father was a New York Democratic committeeman and Seymour had a backstage pass and met Kennedy. I got stepped on by a mounted policeman and was carried into Dubrow's as a combat injury so I got to meet JFK too. Neither Seymour nor I was old enough to vote yet-- though he was close... but neither of us ever voted for a Republican once we were. And neither of us ever will-- despite his bluster.

Seymour often phones me to recall some old Senate tirade by Al Gore's father or Spessard Holland, Everett Dirksen or John Stennis, part of his parthenon of heroes-- at least before he became enamoured of Cole Porter, James Brown, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, La Verne Baker, and Dee Dee Ramone. He has a remarkable memory for song lyrics, colors of record labels, and old Senate speeches. Shockingly he couldn't recall much about the Keating Five or about John McCain's disgraceful public record as an extreme right wing hack. Instead, he remembers what the media has drilled into his head. He recited one McCain p.r. talking point after another. It's a shame Seymour doesn't use a computer or I would send him this video to look at before he sings McCain's praises too loudly among people less likely to humor him than I am:




UPDATE: AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE HILLARY'S SPOUSE BEING IN THE WHITE HOUSE, WAIT TIL YOU MEET McCAIN'S NASTY, VICIOUS WIFE

I don't know if Cindy McCain, a spoiled child of a multimillionaire beer distributor, was scoring illegal drugs from the same characters who used to supply Limbaugh. But I know the 2 of them were using the same kinds of psychotropic, mind-altering painkillers that, when abused, make people stark raving mad. Both of them are. Years ago, the very ambitious former beauty contestant was caught stealing drugs from the medical charity she was underwriting. She was arrested but never prosecuted, being a rich and powerful Repug. This is one piece of trashy work we can definitely do without in the White House.

She met McCain when he was still married to his first wife, although she had been crippled in a car accident and McCain was hot to trot for the very wealthy beauty contestant with low moral standards.