John McCain has made his ethical piety the centerpiece of his 2008 Presidential campaign. After getting caught with feathers in his whiskers in the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association/Keating Five scandal, and making no friends in the press in the process, John McCain sought to reinvent himself in the 1990s. He’s run his 2008 campaign [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘GOP Candidates - Doomed’
May 24, 2008
Lobby Horse, Part 1
He may be “Senator McClean” and the buddy of the press corps now, whom he invites to his barbecues and is always a back-slap away on the campaign bus for both Straight Talk and straight talk, and the occasional bawdy story or joke, but there was a time when John McCain was known as an [...]
May 22, 2008
Das Coot
So this is how we’re going to play it, huh? I guess it’s all out on the table now. With an aging street fighter’s resilient faith in the same fighting mojo he had in his salad days, and like Robert Wagner putting the battery on his shoulder and daring someone to knock it off, John [...]
May 14, 2008
Deadwards
We had such a lovely time in West Virginia, it’s too bad we have to get back to the reality of the painful, doomed continuation of the Clinton Campaign.
It wasn’t Al Gore, but dragging John Edwards off the fence while Hillary basked in the firefly glow of her landslide victory in West Virginia was no [...]
February 12, 2008
Huck Fin
Mike Huckabee says “I major in miracles, not math”. If he’s got Jesus on his speed dial, he’d best be placing that call today, because with John McCain within striking distance as the polls open in Washington D.C., Virginia, and Maryland, there’s a better chance that Michael Jackson will land a show on “Nickelodeon” than [...]
February 8, 2008
GOP TICKET – AD-MITT NONE
The Conservative War Party at C-PAC found itself with a Romney of None on Thursday as the Massachusetts Governor rolled up his bivouac and insisted that his departure from the race was a victory for the fight against terror.
The only terror Romney was quelling with the suspension of his campaign was that of Ann Romney [...]
February 7, 2008
Blow, Blow, Blow Your Vote
With Super Tuesday’s body barely cold and Mitt Romney’s brain trust splitting their time between figuring out how to harness Montana and North Dakota as a trajectory to the GOP nomination and calling the bank to see if Mitt canceled their paychecks, the fall strategy is starting to gell for the petulant, flummoxed Republican establishment: [...]
February 5, 2008
Romney Sons Endorse McCain
(From wire reports) – Already facing a relentless onslaught from presumptive Republican nominee John McCain, Mitt Romney was forced to endure yet another indignity in his unraveling Presidential bid as his five sons held a stunning press conference Tuesday afternoon to formally endorse the Arizona Senator for President of the United States.
Romney has poured a [...]
January 30, 2008
Mitt Out Of Luck (or “Goodbye-Rudy Tuesday”)
The bad news for the GOP is that they lost all the Republican hairdressers tonight. Mitt Romney was the best potential hair apparent the Grand Old Party has had since their impossible 1988 choice between the fabulous coiffures of Jack Kemp and Pete DuPont, and what could have been the best hairstyle of any Republican [...]
January 28, 2008
Ru-taliatory Strike
There’s no suspense left in the Giuliani Campaign. His all-the-marbles Florida Firewall strategy wasn’t up to code and erupted in flames. Never mind the poll numbers, which consistently had him fighting the similarly-flailing Mike Huckabee for fourth place, it was already a very bad portent last week when he invited his supporters to work the [...]
