McCain Chooses Palin As Running Mate  

Posted by Big Gav in

I was rather bemused when I saw the weekend headlines announcing "McCain chooses Palin" as his running mate for his doomed campaign for the presidency this year - surely Michael Palin isn't eligible, was the first thought that ran through my head.



Unfortunately my misgivings were correct, and instead of a decent British comedian livening up the proceedings McCain has lumbered us with a mooseburger munching minion of the oil companies from Alaska. Ho hum...

Mind you, Billmon thinks Ms Palin has enough skeletons in the closet that there will be a media feeding frenzy before too long, dubbing her "shark bait" (though he had the good grace to avoid mentioning this little theory).

Meanwhile, Bob Morris reports that a permaculture bus is the latest to suffer a shakedown from the goons minding the RNC convention, and Bruce has a few chuckles with an anarchist group whose building got boarded up (to the dismay of the city council), quipping "Come and see the violence inherent in the system".

Extra points to readers who get the final Palin reference (and yes, I know the image doesn't show him)...

7 comments

Holy Grail.

"Oh but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!"

:-)

We have a winner.

I have a very big fwend in Wome called Biggus Dickus!

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{wrong image Gav}

I know its the wrong image !

But I always like pictures of Brian better than the Palin characters in the movie...

Anonymous   says 12:01 PM

eh hem - I have a theory - eh hem

My theory by Ann Elk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Elk%27s_Theory_on_Brontosauruses

I am really sorry that you have such a closed leftist opinion on McCain's running mate. Personally, it's very refreshing to see a real human being getting into the race! She actually earned her status from the ground up...She's smart, intelligent, and actually has moral principles. How different can that be?

I'm actually a libertarian (as far as I can classify my political views, which don't really fit into any ox all that well) so don't bother with the leftist stuff.

As for Palin, she seems like she has some worthy personal attributes and a number of very unworthy one. But as I regard the Republicans (as a group - some individuals are OK) as not much better than nazis you won't see any positive coverage of the McCain campaign here.

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