McCain Earns Best Actor Nomination
When next year’s Oscars roll around, I suggest an unconventional choice for best actor: John McCain. Appearing on one of the Sunday morning talk shows, McCain actually managed to say — with a straight face — that the primary reason he picked Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008 was because she was so well qualified for the job.
Sarah Palin’s qualifications were the overriding reason Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) selected the former Alaska governor as his 2008 presidential running mate, he said Sunday.
Speaking about presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney selecting of a vice presidential running mate, McCain said on ABC’s “This Week” that the “primary, absolute, most important aspect is if something happened to him, would that person be well qualified to take that place?”
“I happen to believe that was the … primary factor on my decision in 2008,” McCain said, “and I know it will be Mitt’s.”
Funny, his advisers at the time tell a very different story, that they picked Palin as a hail Mary pass to try to change the dynamic of the race, which ended up backfiring on them in a big way when the country realized that Palin wasn’t qualified to take a tour of the White House, much less have an office there.
Spanish Inquisitor:
May 9th, 2012 at 2:42 pm
Hail Mary. Good description, considering the gender of Mary.
C’mon John. It’s almost 4 years now. You can ‘fess up. It was the fact that she had a vagina, right? A Republican vagina.
d cwilson:
May 9th, 2012 at 3:01 pm
@Spanish Inquisistor:
It was more her lack of a brain. Even a republican brain.
yoav:
May 9th, 2012 at 3:14 pm
John McCain is not as young as he used to be, one of the unfortunate effect of aging is that sometimes the brain just stop working properly, we can give him the benefit of the doubt and assume his statement is an indication of dementia.
tfkreference:
May 9th, 2012 at 3:41 pm
Bravo, Ed, bravo.
R Johnston:
May 9th, 2012 at 3:43 pm
yoav #3:
Where’s the evidence that McCain was ever any saner than he appears to be today? If you want to excuse him for dementia it would probably have to be dementia brought on by his POW time rather than old age, and if you take the relatively sparse accounts of his pre-POW life seriously even that’s not really enough.
busterggi:
May 9th, 2012 at 3:56 pm
That does it – McCain has reached a Reaganesque level of Alzheimers.
abb3w:
May 9th, 2012 at 4:07 pm
“Confabulation“.
Probably has more than a little relation to Ed Brayton‘s bete noir about forced confessions and unreliability of eyewitness testimony.
matty1:
May 9th, 2012 at 5:21 pm
OT but important
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/09/obama-gay-marriage_n_1503245.html
michaelconway:
May 9th, 2012 at 6:09 pm
Ah, but McCain didn’t say it was true, he just said he happened to believe it, and we know John happens to believe a lot of very strange things.
dust:
May 9th, 2012 at 8:56 pm
This year’s AA win was for a silent performance. Perhaps McCain can be all mavericky again and give a silent performance as well.
(also known as STFU in his case)
Deanna Joy Lyons:
May 10th, 2012 at 5:15 am
You know he’s lying because he uses the term “I happen to believe.” People always say that when they are either full of shit, fudging the truth, or saying something that they know *you’ll* never believe.
It’s their out later.
democommie:
May 10th, 2012 at 6:50 am
“It’s their out later.”
Or, he could borrow from the DorkLord Cheney and say something along the lines of:
“Had I known what I knew then (and known that I knew it) v not knowing and not knowing that I didn’t know what I thought I knew, well, things would have been different!”.
John McCain, lying? now there’s a sooprize.
Pierce R. Butler:
May 10th, 2012 at 9:53 pm
Sorry, but as his performance was not part of any movie, Sen. McCain is not eligible for an Oscar.
Please contact the Emmy Awards people to determine which categories the one-shot “Palin for Veep” show qualifies, and how to (what else?) rig the appropriate nominations.