McCain-Clinton in 2008
Even by the low standards of campaign attack ads, there is something pathetic about the John McCain commercial commiserating with Hillary Clinton for not being tapped by Barack Obama as his running mate.
"She won millions of votes but isn't on his ticket," a McCain commercial said. "Why? For speaking the truth."
There is poetic justice for Clinton in being drafted by the McCain campaign. Her attacks on Obama in the primary season -- like all such broadsides -- were transparently tactical and insincere. Clinton was no more appalled by Obama's ties to dodgy businessman Tony Rezko than Rudy Giuliani was by Mitt Romney's employment of illegal aliens to manicure the lawn of his Massachusetts mansion.
Politicians and journalists know these silly shotgun attacks are meaningless, and become inoperative as soon as the primaries are over and a nominee has been anointed. But a lot of voters aren't in on the joke, which is why McCain's crocodile tears for Hillary might actually deter some Democrats from voting for Obama. If not, he could ask her to join him on the Republican ticket.
The photo of John McCain and Hillary Clinton practicing for the inaugural (no, check that, they're at a 2007 dedication ceremony for a military rehabilitation center in San Antonio) is by Ben Sklar/Getty Images.
Thank GOODNESS for Hillarious Clinton! Obama is SO NOT READY for Prime Time, SO NOT READY to be President! Thank GOODNESS Hillarious Clinton tore him apart, and thank goodness LOTS and LOTS of Hillarious supporters will vote for McCain/Palin!
Posted by: Antisocialist/Antifascist | August 29, 2008 at 11:59 AM
what percentage of republicans would not vote for mccain if he choose hillary clinton?
Posted by: Puma pagoda | August 26, 2008 at 02:11 PM
A McCain/Hillary ticket? Hell, I'm a liberal democrat - and I'd be all over that. They'd have my vote.
Hillary having the tie-breaking senate vote is quite a lot of power - and she'd help make sure there would be no turning over of Roe V Wade.
Much better choice than Obama and OLD WHITE Biden.
Posted by: Bobby | August 26, 2008 at 02:04 PM
Well Cougars....err PUMAs. If you feel so strongly about a McCain/Clinton ticket, perhaps you should push the issue with your pro-womens' rights candidate John McCain. Oh that's right, his party hates the Clintons!
Posted by: BrooklynGirl | August 26, 2008 at 10:44 AM
I would love to see a McCain/Clinton Ticket. I think this has been the dream ticket all along. This will be the real untiy. Uniting two parties for the good of our Country. These two have the same type of spirit. No matter what their stance I have seen both of them work good together. They know how to compromise. They consider the people in everything they do. This would be the real change.
Posted by: Rosalie | August 26, 2008 at 12:37 AM
First of all, PUMAs are not Republicans. We are Democrats who are sickened by what our party has become during this election. We are fighting for the belief that democracy should be put back into the Democratic party. We are fighting the way that a candidate who won the popular vote was going to be denied a roll call vote at convention. We are fighting the fact that another candidate was "packaged and promoted" by the DNC and that the other viable candidate was forced out of the race so that there would be "party unity". We are fighting the fact that the DNC says our votes don't make a difference. We are fighting the fact that no candidate has won the nomination, yet one has been declared the "presumptive" nominee - even though only a handful of delegate votes separated them. This isn't about Hillary Clinton - it is about the raping of democracy. It is amazing to me that people who live in an enlightened age can't do the research or the math. jefflz states that PUMAs are a bunch of "Rove stooges" and that women's causes will suffer under McCain. I say that all causes will suffer under the Obama/Biden ticket because almost everything that Obama said he was for during the primaries has now become almost everything that he is against. He has offended not only women, but has also turned many men, Hispanics, Jews, members of the working class, educated and uneducated, and even African-Americans against him. It is not a good sign that Obama and McCain are neck-and-neck in the polls right now, and I think it is only going to get worse as we get closer to November.
Posted by: PatrioticAmericanToo | August 25, 2008 at 11:41 PM
Yes, a McCain and Hillary Clinton ticket will unite the country and would be an incredible turn of events.
Posted by: Ozzie | August 25, 2008 at 08:54 PM
PUMA’S and their ilk are Rove dupes not Democrats. McCain stands for everything the Democratic Party opposes. If they can vote for McCain out of spite they are like spoiled brats who didn’tget their way. What is shocking is that McCain presumes that intelligent women can be so bitter about Clinton’s loss of the primary that they are willing to vote against their own personal interests. Even if they aren’t enthralled with Obama and feel cheated by the bizarre primary process, how can these women support a man who will overturn Roe v. Wade?, a man who has demonstrated his contempt for women through his coarse remarks even to his own wife? a man who promises to send their sons into more illegal wars? a man who has brought in Karl Rove the Cheney/Bush attack dog,, Ralph Reed the corrupt Christian Coalition leader and Phil Gramm of Texas/Enron fame to run his campaign?? Get real, recognize PUMA as a bunch of Rove stooges and move on -only Republicans could stomach a vote for McCain/Bush. It is simply the worst possible formula for the advancement of women’s causes.
Posted by: jefflz | August 25, 2008 at 05:10 PM
I have been saying for weeks that a McCain/Clinton ticket would be a sure winner. Why Unify a fixed party when you can unify the nation.
Posted by: SusanfromPA | August 25, 2008 at 04:23 PM
Your liberal bias is showing. Those repubs are soo mean, Obama is great, I feel a shiver down my leg when Obama speaks,.... Cry me a river.
How is the circulation and advertising doing of your liberal rag anyways?
Posted by: Patriotic American | August 25, 2008 at 04:04 PM
The Olympics was only the latest evidence that America is not as strong as she used to be. A communist country effectively used their rising middle-class to put on the greatest show ever AND win the most gold medals. There were just too few Moms’s and Dad’s like Michael Phelp’s or Shawn Johnson’s who’s sacrifice was enough to propel their kids to the top. The rest were too distracted by mortgage failures, medical expenses, gas prices and educational budget-cuts, all problems that grew during two+ decades of rising corporate tax-cuts and profits.
This election is possibly the last chance to save the working middle-class and everything it does for this country. It is unbelievable that many voters are still voting based on identity politics..."my vote will only go to a 'woman' or 'war vet' or "someone like me"
Posted by: Young Atheart | August 25, 2008 at 03:35 PM
I hope John McCain will heed his own advice and pick Mike Huckabee as his own running mate???
I dont understand how childish a 75yr old man can get??? If he wants to run Obama's campaign he should apply for the job, all this talk about Obama did this, Obama did that wont work.
Posted by: Raymond Micheal | August 25, 2008 at 03:27 PM
The press and the Clinton's are determined McCain win's. They are benefitting from the status quo and want to preserve it. We get minute-by-minute criticism of Obama -- a new negative angle literally every hour. We get NOTHING on John McCain. That is not reporting -- that is propoganda.
I am a very hard working, white, female in the true private sector for 30 years. I voted for George Bush in 2000. What we are seeing now is not democracy. It is shameful.
Posted by: cmnsns | August 25, 2008 at 03:12 PM
The behavior of the Clinton campaign, the Republican's for inciting the Clinton campaign and the Media for only reporting the Clinton/McCain side is a disgrace to democracy and a disgrace to hard-working people like me who generate the tax base for you fat cats to wine, dine and make sure you strangle any slim chance for a fairer tax system, fairer health care system, more productive economy, less war, less monopoly control and less government run for profit that Obama's proposals would move us towards. It is a disgrace and many of us feel we have completely disenfranchised by the power of the media and the wealthy elite to only allow a completely biased story to emerge. The media refuses to do ANY critical analysis of McCain -- we have no idea what he is going to do except he wants to continue supply-side taxes that are pooling wealth in a very unproductive way and increase middle class taxes through his health care proposal that will force us to pay tax on our alredy bloated healthcare premiums.
This is not democracy and this is not a free press informing the people. This is bedlam.
Posted by: cmnsns | August 25, 2008 at 03:07 PM