OK, I must be the last blogger in America to post this (h/t John A.) , but at the bottom is the lost outtake from last Wednesday debate. McCain -- I mean, the Penguin, got off the best line of the night.
Penguin: ...but I intend to stick to the issues. Now what are the issues? There is only one. Batman. Who is he?
In a related question, isn't "the Penguin" becoming something of a "Joker" for spending so much time here in Pa.?
Despite polls showing him trailing Democrat Barack Obama by double digits in Pennsylvania, John McCain continued to treat the state as if the whole election depended on it.
Yesterday, his wife, Cindy, made four stops in Philadelphia and Yardley, speaking at two rallies, visiting a hospital, and meeting the mothers of men and women in the military.
Today, the Republican nominee has three appearances in Pennsylvania, starting with a morning rally in Bensalem. He made two visits to the Philadelphia suburbs last week, and running mate Sarah Palin was in Lancaster over the weekend.
No, it doesn't make a lot of sense. I wouldn't be ready to write off McCain, but I don't see how Pennsylvania is the answer -- those veterans and blue-collar Reagan Dems show no sign of breaking the way the GOP once had good reason to think they would. The only McCain strategy is to hold every state that Bush won in 2004 and maybe try to add one. I think he could definitely pull out Florida and Ohio, but I wonder how he holds New Mexico and Colorado and I couldn't even suggest a Kerry 2004 state that he should be going for.
You don't need a Penguin to see the frost coming.
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Will, don't you see? They are sending McCain to states they have little chance in. Palin gets sent to the toss up states. Palin-McCain '08!— RG- Go on, keep telling yourselves that the election is over. I would LOVE IT if McCain won, just to see the flabbergasted faces of despair. I hope Barack Apollo The Annointed One Messiah Obama does not win!— GHOST OF GU1D0 MERKENS
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- I have to go on record as saying I really, really hope that the "penguin" moniker for McCain doesn't get any traction. It seems too close to mocking his difficulty raising his arms and his sometimes awkward gait, both of which result from his untreated broken bones after being shot down and captured.— GreyHippie
- Maybe we should call Obama the penguin. You know, because he's half black and half white.— GHOST OF GU1D0 MERKENS
- Gee Will nobody seems to like your posts and yet there here everyday to remind you, go figure.— BTL
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- Ah, poor repugs. being trashed thoroughly on the issues, they must resort to name calling. So sad, so very sad. Especially for the once respectable McCain, who has allowed his lust for the office to overtake his entire being. The one-time maverick is a mere shadow of the guy who ran against Bush in 2000. Can't help but wonder how things might be different if that McCain had won. At least the guy would not have had to subprime mortgage his soul to try one last time to outrank dad and grandpa. But that McCain is not around. The only similarity will be the results. He is in Pa. out of desperation. There simply is noplace left for him to go. They are being run out of old red states like New Mexico, Colorado and Iowa on a rail. He is not here because he has a good chance of winning the state. He is here because it has come down to being his only chance of winning the election. It ain't much of a chance, but it is the only lone the desperate, lying, old codger has.
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