“I stand by the statement.”
Posted by Dirty Harry on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Like Obama, Joe Biden’s not terribly bright, but I’ve always liked him. His oily charm works on me. He’s like the Uncle who pulls the nickel out of your ear and thinks you’re still fooled because you don’t want to hurt his feelings and let him know you know.
My friend Bridget Johnson, who lives and works in the heart of ‘mile high, inch deep’ country has more.
Also, Obama concedes Alaska, Georgia, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Florida and Virginia? I thought he was going to compete in all 57 states?
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Kenn Christensonon 23 Aug 2008 at 9:08 am 1BEST AD, so far! Guess the Dems weren’t paying attention to their own debates.
Mr24pon 23 Aug 2008 at 9:14 am 2I was so happy when I saw it was Biden. I figured it would be but things seemed shaky. Talk about being handed something on a silver platter. There is a lot on Biden they can pull up. And that ad proves the McCain camp is staying on top of things.
Now if McCain just picks a good VP I’d say things are looking up for November.
Kenn Christensonon 23 Aug 2008 at 9:21 am 3“Barack Obama has just picked his Dick Cheney.” - If Dick Cheney had nothing between his ears and his gums kept flappin’
amzarakon 23 Aug 2008 at 9:24 am 4Guys,
Check out this blog post from the powerline guys. The last paragraph is devastating. Hopefully, McCain’s people can score some point from it.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/08/021299.php
Kenn Christensonon 23 Aug 2008 at 9:35 am 5“Check out this blog post from the powerline guys. The last paragraph is devastating. Hopefully, McCain’s people can score some point from it.” - (See post #3.)
But, seriously - excellent find amzarak!
Stephanieon 23 Aug 2008 at 9:42 am 6I am not going to gloat yet but I couldn’t believe it would be Biden. I knew it would be especially all of the misinformation out tehre at the last minute but man. Could they have picked a lousier veep pick? I know teh reason is because his kid who is a JAG is going to Iraq. McCain has one or two there already. Biden also has experience…..and that is where it ends. Biden is a known commodity, Biden could never make it through the primaries. Always left early. I understand why Hillary was never even contacted. They hate each other and it would have been the obvious thing to unite the party. But why Biden? Why not Bayh or even Wesley Clarke? Why this guy? Honestl y I cannot imagine what they are thinking. Hannity, Rush and Beck are already licking there lips on this one…..oh the wonderful sound bites……….But no gloating.
AS for Mac……Sarah Palin would be awesome. SO would Romney. I am now more excited than I have been in days.
And as for the battle ground states……..this no ads in the battle grounds is going on for as long as the DNC is on. At least that is what I heard.
JLon 23 Aug 2008 at 9:51 am 7re: the Powerline find
If anybody has connections at HotAir.com (other than their tips email), let ‘em know. They love this stuff!
Stephanieon 23 Aug 2008 at 9:53 am 8OMG! The man is crazy. Certifiable. That last paragraph is a testimony to insanity.
Kit Oon 23 Aug 2008 at 9:56 am 9Mac can still blow it—though I hope he doesn’t…..Palin wouldbe a great VP in 2012, as would Jindal, but with five kids including a newborn with Downs, it would be best she sits this out—-Jindal too, though I like them both, a case can be made that their resumes are almost as sparce as the Messiah’s.
Pray that Mac does not get too arrogant, with either his choice or about immigration (catch the speech to Latinos where he claims to stand up for them?). He can still grab defeat from the jaws of victory.
Glad though that the dems are making hay about the houses—the houses are McCain’s wife’s not his—-this give the Republicans several new talking points:
—McCain might not havethe number of houses, but he knows that we only have 50 states, not 57—something a 47 year old said when he was “weary” on the road—a quarter century younger than Mac, and he can’t remember a basic fact?
—wives are now in play; let’s talk about Michelle’s first job after BO was elected state senator.
—Rezko!
And cheers to Stanley Kurtz for pursuing the Annenberg Challenge fund docs.
There is hope, and fortunately, ways to get around the old media, thank goodness.
Bob Whiteon 23 Aug 2008 at 9:57 am 10Christmas has come in August for the GOP. And the best part of this is it will give Bork and Thomas a chance to vote against Biden.
JLon 23 Aug 2008 at 10:03 am 11No ads in the battleground states is just an excuse. Once the DNC is over, they won’t come back to those states. That’s what I read.
Biden also has a son who is a lobbyist. And Barry has stated his campaign will have nothing to do with lobbyists. Oops.
Check this out:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/08/23/bidens-lobbying-ties/
McCain will have to hire extra staff to produce ads.
I would love to see Palin selected by McCain but I doubt he will. Even though they have some baggage between each other from the debates (which I’m sure the Dems will point out), at this point Romney is a safer pick IMO. That could pave the way for Romney to run in 2012 (doubt that McCain will last 8 years starting at 72 years old) and bring someone like Palin onto the ticket at that point. Besides, Palin may have to run for Senate to replace Ted Stevens if things don’t go well for him (don’t these people ever learn?)
Stephanieon 23 Aug 2008 at 10:05 am 12Oh I think Palin would be great. But like I said Jindahl took himself out of the race. No to any pro aborts. McCain said as much anyway. So we don’t have to worry. I am thinking Palin, Romney. As much as I like Joe Lieberman, unity tickets never win….we need a guy who is to the right of McCain and someone whom the evangelicals can like.
Danielon 23 Aug 2008 at 10:06 am 13Kit’s right. McCain could come out looking as dumb as The One if McCain goes with a Pro-Abortion Democrat like Lieberman.
A solid Republican Veep pick could pretty much seal the deal for McCain. A squishy run to the left Democrat pick by the Republican nominee would put everything up in the air.
Dennis Prager has been saying, for some time, that this election is McCain’s to loose. McCain would be a fool to put another Senator on the Republican Presidential ticket. It would be a disaster for the Republicans.
Bob W., don’t count your chickens till they hatch. Wait until McCain makes his selection.
Kenn Christensonon 23 Aug 2008 at 10:10 am 14This wouldn’t be Hillary’s “See I told you…” to the Democratic party?
Megon 23 Aug 2008 at 10:10 am 15Go Sarah Palin! Imagine if McCain chose a woman for vice president, we’d have a Clintonista-fueled blowout!
amzarakon 23 Aug 2008 at 10:10 am 16Stephanie,
I think Wesley Clarke was going to be the guy until the controversy that arose over his comments about McCain not being qualified to be Prez a few weeks ago. If McCain’s not qualified, Obama is!?! There was no way it would be Hillary. I agree with you about the animosity between the two, but Hillary is much more qualified and she also has a former President as her husband. She would tower over him on the ticket. His messianic complex couldn’t allow something like that. Plus, as Rush likes to joke, if Hillary was the VP, Barrack would have to have food tasters before he ate and bomb-sniffing dogs for his motorcade and AF One. I’m sure any President has that already, but it’s still a funny joke about the most dangerous place to be is between a Clinton and a political office.
As for McCain, I think it will be Romney, but don’t count out Tim Pawlenty from the state of Minnesota. He’s blue collar and relatively conservative. Plus, if he could help McCain pull Minnesota, BHO is in more trouble than even his worshipers in the MSM can imagine.
Stephanieon 23 Aug 2008 at 10:15 am 17TPaw isn’t bad. I remember going to Wisconsin in 06′ and seeing TPaw signs everywhere. They seem to like him. It could be him or Romney. But damn Romney helping on economic issues would be awesome. The guy knows what he is talking about. But look guys and gals don’t worry about McCain picking a squish. I think he heard voices loud and clear when the Lieberman rumor started. He knows better.
JLon 23 Aug 2008 at 10:18 am 18I agree - this is McCain’s to lose, which makes me nervous considering his continued desire to be The Maverick.
One more thing on Palin, IMO opinion if the Dems lose the election, Hillary is a lock in 2012 (unless another liberal Messiah assends from the Heavens) so the Republicans will need a female counter in 2012 if McCain doesn’t run again. Otherwise, she can come online in 2016. (Of course, I’ll probably be dead by then.) Too bad the run for the Presidency has come down to this rather than the best person for the job, but that’s politics I guess.
I read a few months ago Palin’s story of how they “chose life” when they learned about their baby having downs. Nice.
JohnLockeon 23 Aug 2008 at 10:27 am 19It’s too bad Jindal is out. Kit, you should read the piece Medved did for Townhall a while back about McCain’s VP choices. He made a strong case for Jindal. The guy is younger than Obama and has accomplished infinitely more than him. Any charges against him about inexperience would completely backfire and make Obama look even worse. Throw in his race to tear apart the “rich white man” meme and his appeal to Catholic voters and Obama would essentially be finished.
At this point, I’d say Romney would be his best choice. Palin isn’t exactly well-known. Romney, on the other hand, made quite a name of himself on the campaign trail. All of the qualities that made his run last so long will come rushing back to the voters’ minds. He’s telegenic, and appeals more to the conservative base than McCain. He may turn off some evangelicals, but McCain’s strong pro-life stance (emphasized in the Saddleback Church debate) would keep the damage to a relative minimum.
JLon 23 Aug 2008 at 10:33 am 20re: Tim Pawlenty, McCain must be careful about bringing in a VP with no national experience, especially since the VP is a heartbeat away. Pawlenty could swing MN which now leans Democrat and he did win the Governorship in a Blue state. But I’m not sure that is enough of a reason.
Romney is the man IMO. What he did as Governor, saving the Olympics, and he’s a stable, family man… he could really help the ticket especially with the economic downturn. And he fits well into McCain’s Washington is broken theme since Mitt is an outsider.
McCain doesn’t need a VP with foreign policy experience - he needs someone who can help turn this economy around. We do have economic issues. The sky isn’t falling but it is “mostly cloudy with scattered showers.”
Besides, the worst they can say about Mitt is he’s changed his mind about a couple of issues which is already greatly documented and he didn’t vet all the landscapers that worked at his house (he hired a landscape company that may have had some issues there). I say that’s all you got?
JLon 23 Aug 2008 at 10:35 am 21JohnLocke - good analysis
“All of the qualities that made his run last so long will come rushing back to the voters’ minds.”
Good point and well said.
JLon 23 Aug 2008 at 10:41 am 22One more before I go: Fox News is discussing how disappointed the youth must be with Obama’s pick. Some interviewed didn’t even know who Biden was. Now that’s funny!
I bet a bunch of them (like the Obama Girl) go home and don’t vote. (Rush always says it’s the Likely Voters polls that count.) Only the hard core youth and little Bush-Haters that will stay the course. The rest will say, “Hey, like this is really hard, and such. I’m headed back to, like my friends, so like we can like go to Happy Hour, and like, and such as.”
amzarakon 23 Aug 2008 at 10:57 am 23JL,
Only the hard core youth and little Bush-Haters that will stay the course. The rest will say, “Hey, like this is really hard, and such. I’m headed back to, like my friends, so like we can like go to Happy Hour, and like, and such as.”
Hilarious! I am back in college getting my Master’s and I hear that kind of talk everyday. I’m very impressed with some of the kids, but that sounds almost exactly like many of them.
Kiton 23 Aug 2008 at 11:16 am 24First of all, stop confusing me with Kit O. I am Kit without an “O” on the end.
Now, here is a list of VP candidates from wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)_vice_presidential_candidates,_2008#Denied_interest
And I don’t think Romney would be the best choice, considering how went at each other in the primaries and, remember Romney was a flip-flopper if there ever was one.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/04/AR2008020402805.html
Jindal and Palin would look like political opportunists if they took the job right now.
And Pawlenty seems like the best choice, but he has stated he wants to serve out his term as governor.
Kit Oon 23 Aug 2008 at 12:05 pm 25Kit O is a woman, and Kit is a man —-and though I appreciate the confusion, because I like Kit’s style, my apologies to him.
It has been a while since we had a ticket with former opponents uniting; Kerry/Edwards did not do well, but Reagan/Bush was a great example of two former opponents making a sound team. I think that Romney & McCain has smoothed the troubled waters over the past few months, so it would and could work.
Personally, I love Jindal, and read Medved’s piece, but I think it looks to much like trying to match what the other team is doing. I would love to see Fred Thompson on the ticket, but I really don’t think he is interested….any other strong candidate is going to make it a two old white guy ticket, but Biden has neutralized any attack in that area, or at least diminished it.
It is nice to see that the Republicans have a strong bench to pull from on the national side….now let’s work on the local levels. The up and comers such as Jindal and Palin are strong conservatives, which makes moderate McCain a bit more tolerable, and SSSOOOO much better than the alternative.
Every election the dems run such incredibly bad candidates, I shake my head in wonder—-and then I look at the results in some areas (like my hometown of Detroit, Michigan—-that has elected Kwame Kilpatrick & Jennifer Granholm (gov) twice) and wonder how things have not completely fallen apart yet.
JLon 23 Aug 2008 at 12:08 pm 26Kit, 1994? That was 14 years ago. INO, that’s a long time for a flip-flop. Maybe he has come to see some issues in a different light. I know I have. And most of those issues have been vetted in the primaries. I still think he is strong.
Michael Hutchisonon 23 Aug 2008 at 12:37 pm 27Great ad right out of the gate.
I keep waiting for the gut-punch when McCain makes a lousy choice for Veep. This race is now McCain’s to lose and I can’t shake the eerie feeling that tomorrow he’ll announce someone that’s even more liberal than he is. ALL HE HAS TO DO is pick Ms. Palin as his running mate to satisfy the conservatives who are unhappy with him and draw Democrat votes from the women who wanted Hillary. And I just know he’s not going to do it. He’s going to be his own maverick self and pick some pro-choicer who will angry up our blood (if I may paraphrase Abe Simpson).
Right Wing Nation » Decisions, Decisionson 23 Aug 2008 at 12:37 pm 28[…] can’t decide which is better, this: Like Obama, Joe Biden’s not terribly bright, but I’ve always liked him. His oily charm works […]
a. acaciaon 23 Aug 2008 at 12:39 pm 29I guess what I’m looking for in McCain’s VP is someone who 1) can close the ranks of the Conservative base (much needed right now) and 2) reinforce the GOP’s position as the party of Bold Ideas. So who’s going to energize and unite us? I can tell you right now, one name that doesn’t come to mind is Tim Pawlenty.
Too often McCain shoots himself in the foot when choosing allies (Kennedy, Feingold, etc) so he’d better think twice before he selects a VP, someone who’ll rub elbows with him for the next 4-8 years. Lieberman would be a terrible choice. He’d be a death-knoll to fund-raising. McCain/Lieb might get my vote, but definitely not my cash.
Romney has the business insight and management skills to help McCain revitalize the economy (what everyone seems to be worried about now), and he has a solid understanding about the threat of jihad - without couching it in silly PC terms. In fact he was the only GOP candidate that wasn’t shy about using the term “jihad,” and for that he gets major props from me. Plus he’s well-financed and can help McCain in that dept.
Romney was always my first choice for President and I was pierced when he dropped out. He’s ready to drill in ANWR and, in a move that brings music to investors’ ears (acacia raises hand!), he wants to kill the dreaded capital gains tax. I hate capital gains with a passion.
a. acaciaon 23 Aug 2008 at 12:50 pm 30I’m curious, being that Palin hails from Alaska, what is her stance on drilling in ANWR?
Stephanieon 23 Aug 2008 at 1:04 pm 31She has been begging for the Fed. to allow it. She is really good on business.
Audietooon 23 Aug 2008 at 1:18 pm 32A Black empty suit Meets a White empty suit Okie dokie
That will impress the hell out of the Rubes. And Blacks won’t have to be concerned that the Vice President is smarter than the Prez.
Audietooon 23 Aug 2008 at 1:32 pm 33Oh and Kit O why didn’t you make it Kidette as in Wankette. Then there would be no confusion. In this day of Identity politics you have to make a stand up signal.
PS Jindal would be great So would Romney or Palin. Why hasn’t anyone mentioned Steele. He has the stones and he is plenty smart and a lifelong Republican. Sure it would look like we were trying to match the Democratic out reach. But There are a lot of conservative blacks out there and it would give them a defensible position to vote Republican. Plus Steele would be a great VP. And a great President if the need arose.
Carolynon 23 Aug 2008 at 1:33 pm 34Ah, man, I am TOTALLY Romney! February 8 was the day my heart broke as he dropped out of the race. But if he were chosen as VP, that seething rage I feel against McCain’s filthy dirty back-stabbing trick in Florida would subside - a little.
amzarakon 23 Aug 2008 at 1:53 pm 35Guys,
Check out this link on Biden’s record concerning the 2nd Ammendment:
http://www.ontheissues.org/domestic/Joe_Biden_Gun_Control.htm
This will not help Obama in the Midwest and the South. Those of us down here cling bitterly to our guns.
Bear with me while I ponder a theory. I’m beginning to believe that Obama knew he needed someone with experience on the ticket. That’s why he didn’t choose Bayh or Kaine. When he went looking for experience, Biden was the first one willing to join the ticket. What I’m saying is that maybe Biden wasn’t the first choice but the first one to say yes. Others with experience turned him down because they see a sinking ship. How else does one explain such a poor choice as a running mate? Unless the Clintons are behind all this? Who knows?
All I know is that it’s a good day for McCain.
trzupron 23 Aug 2008 at 4:45 pm 36Wow.
The look on The Chosen One’s face in that video pretty much pegs out the smugocity meter.
trzupron 23 Aug 2008 at 5:14 pm 37Amzarak — I think you may be giving Barry too much credit. He is not a rational human being. I would not be surprised if, in the bizarre, twisted and tortured workings of Obama’s mind, he actually believes this was a great choice. I am not going to try and understand. It makes my head hurt…
kevin J wadlroupon 23 Aug 2008 at 6:54 pm 38a. acacia
I guess what I’m looking for in McCain’s VP is someone who 1) can close the ranks of the Conservative base (much needed right now) and 2) reinforce the GOP’s position as the party of Bold Ideas.
Duncan Hunter
trzupron 23 Aug 2008 at 7:46 pm 39“Also, Obama concedes Alaska, Georgia, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Florida and Virginia?”
I think you missed the point DH.
He’s planning to SELL them.
To pay for health care.
misterdon 24 Aug 2008 at 1:05 am 40Someone probably told BHO that they could only campaign in 50 states, so he decided to pull out of those 7.