2010 Mission: Defeat John McCain AGAIN! Look at the email I got...

[zulchzulu]

As part of my plan to see what the enemy is doing, I signed up as an alternate contact with the McCain campaign in 2008. I wanted to see what he was up to, when he was coming nearby as to protest his existence and otherwise know the enemy's location.

Well, the emails about losing were lame and not what I wanted from his campaign. And now, he is sending out this email:

Being the Republican nominee for President was one of the great honors of my life and an experience I will never forget. Some have wondered, after my hard fought presidential campaign, if I plan to run for re-election to the United States Senate.

Join my re-election team I want you to know that I do intend to seek re-election. The magnitude of the financial crisis that many American families are facing makes it clear to me that I want to continue to serve our country in the Senate.

The economic challenges currently confronting our nation are immense and unfortunately, the Democrats in Congress propose addressing these challenges through increased spending that wastes billions of taxpayers dollars and saddles our children and grandchildren with a staggering debt. Their proposals will not stimulate economic growth or create jobs. While the leader of the Democratic Party, President Obama, has pledged to change business as usual in Washington and spoken of bipartisanship, I have been saddened to watch as Congressional Democrats try to use their majority to advocate more of the same failed policies and wasteful spending of the past. With so much at stake, now is not the time to step away from my work in the Senate.

As always, I anticipate a tough re-election challenge. But with your help, we will counter those efforts and put forth an aggressive campaign by registering new voters, reaching out to Democrats, Independents and Republicans, and again earning the support of Hispanic and Native American voters in Arizona.

I am honored to serve the people of Arizona as their United States Senator. I would be most appreciative of your support of my re-election efforts and hope you will click here to join my re-election team. Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

John McCain

McCain, aka Johnny Songbird, is on the WRONG side of history. He needs to be finally defeated AGAIN soundly in his run for the Senate in 2010. It's time to finally give this blowhole the Pink Slip.

I'm not sure who is running against him or what Democrat will finally run against him, but it is indeed time to send a message once and for all that McCain and his stooges will be paddled, shoved and kicked out of Washington DC in 2010.



What the fuck is with the goddamn tongue anyway? :shrug:

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Wow! Until what age is he going to be running for office? nt

[Wetzelbill]

3. He's a gloryhound, Sarah,

He'll stay in until he has to be wheeled out for health reasons. He'll probably try to stick it out several years past when he should retire.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. I can visualize him being wheeled around n a wheelchair to campaign nt

[firedupdem]

5. with his nasty tongue hanging out. Ick n/t

[Wetzelbill]

9. oh that was so mean

Funny though. Just like that goofy picture from the debate, lol.

[Wetzelbill]

6. oh yeah

It will be like that. Good thing sugarmama can afford to get him all the best care.

[relayerbob]

19. He passed that point several years ago

somewhere around the time he sold his soul to the devil.

[MADem]

25. Robert Byrd is no spring chicken. McCain's four years YOUNGER than Ted Kennedy, too.

No one's calling for his seat, and he's terminally ill.

Pulling the age card is just lame. McCain's about the same age as Colin Powell, and no one cracks geezer jokes about him.

If you don't care for his politics, that's understandable. But if you're going to dis him because of his age, you're going to have to insult Democrats like Lautenberg, Inoye, and Akaka as well (in their eighties) who make McCain look like a babe in arms.

You wouldn't insult people because of their gender or orientation, why's it 'ok' to insult them for something that happens to everyone...IF they're LUCKY?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

38. Pulling the age card is not lame. The older people are the less able they are to reason things out.

The memory goes, and yet they're running our country. I think people who run for office should be tested for I.Q. and I'm not kidding.

[MADem]

41. What a load of horseshit. Maybe that's the case in YOUR family.

It's not the case in everyone's, so to generalize, like you just did, is totally wrong. Leon Panetta, who just was named to be Obama's CIA Director, is only two years younger than McCain. The Vice President is in his late sixties. What an ageist and ignorant attitude--may it be visted upon you a hundredfold in your later years.

I think people who post here should be tested for their grip on reality, but that's just me.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

45. Nope, that's the case whenever anyone applies for jobs.....

Professional jobs have an age limit for many reasons. It's not a well-kept secret as to why.


http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/why-brains-ability-to-process-information-diminishes-with-age_10092078.html

"Washington, Sept 3 (ANI): Scientists have found how brain’s ability to process information diminishes with age and have also shown that this break down is responsible for the decreased ability to form memories linked with normal aging."

[MADem]

47. Getting a bit doddering, are you? You need to read the WHOLE article.

In the healthy aging brain, these changes are subtle. In the brains of those with mild cognitive impairment and the more severe form of impairment, such as Alzheimer’’s disease, they are substantial.

I'd also suggest that you read the articles underneath that article.

Your argument is ageist. What, should women be barred from public office because their brains are SMALLER? And they're more susceptible to ...DEPRESSION?

http://www.thirdage.com/love-romance/the-male-vs-the-female-brain

No, they shouldn't. Because you see, these differences are subtle, too.

There's no age limit on jobs that require THINKING. Doing manual or repetitive labor, like digging a ditch, driving a bus or a train or a plane, that requires physicality or stamina is one thing, teaching a college class or serving in the Senate is something else entirely. In fact, in most enlightened locations, age discrimination in jobs without a specific physical requirement for the job is a bit frowned on.

You must be so disappointed in Obama, picking so many "geezers" to advise him. Heck, his VP is eligible for Social Security.

I really do hope you live a long, long heathy life, and have an opportunity to meet people JUST LIKE YOU are now, in your dotage. You deserve no less.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

49. Again, age doesn't just bring deterioration of the skin via wrinkles - it brings deterioration of

everything

[MADem]

51. Not necessarily.

Experience and life-long learning can and do compensate for SUBTLE changes in brain function. People learn things like AWARENESS, and TOLERANCE, and DIVERSITY as they age....things you'd do well to study up on.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

52. No? We remain perky, young and sharp as tacks, and we suddenly drop dead?

No deterioration of the mind and body, huh? What planet does that take place on? I'd like to go there.

[MADem]

54. Well, obviously you aren't doing that...staying young, perky and sharp as a tack, that is.

Because you're either deliberately misrepresenting my argument, or you're so addled and dull of comprehension that you can't follow the points I'm making.

Older people can and do contribute massively to our government. They are a real asset, and the Democratic Party has the lion's share of them. Their age and experience are complemented by the wisdom they've acquired during the process of simply living.

You'll get that when you grow up, I guess. No matter what your age, you still have that to do, it would seem.

[tabbycat31]

36. I have a senator that was just re-elected at 84

makes McCain look like a baby there. Not encouraging John Insane but just saying that it is possible.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

37. That shouldn't be. No recruiter would hire someone like that, so why should they run our country?

Just because they're rich and can afford to promote themselves?

[tabbycat31]

39. I actually voted for him

and he did have a primary challenger too.

I'm not complaining though cause he is a Democrat and voted for the stimulus.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

40. No, I know, I'm greatful for any Democrat.....

but in a world that functions properly, everyone in the most important jobs of the U.S. (government) would have to be brilliant and sharp, and have a memory like a computer. Instead, we get illiterate monkeys like Bush.

[MADem]

42. But Bush was a YOUNG man. He wasn't OLD when he took office.

He was a fresh-faced fifty four. He was an idiot, but that just proves that idiots can crop up at a young age, too.

You just ruined your own argument. "Sharpness" is not limited by age. Some young people can be dumb as dirt and dull as dishwater. And some old people, like Nelson Mandela, for example, can stay brilliant and sharp as a tack into their very old age.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

44. Absolutely! But most sane people are in agreement that the idiot was mentally deficient...

and that he was a puppet of the rich class, for the rich class.

[MADem]

46. But that has nothing to do with AGE, is my point.

Making fun of a person, or denigrating them, SOLELY for their age, suggesting that they are feeble-minded, doddering, "not as sharp," is as toxic as saying that a person lacks appropriate qualites because of, oh, race, gender or orientation.

It's an ugly argument. It's un-Democratic, too.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

48. Facts are not denigration. Elderly people do not get elderly only physically nt

[MADem]

50. That sentence makes no sense.

Elderly people DO "get elderly." They don't necessarily lose their marbles. That's what you seem to be suggesting, which is pisspoor logic, to put it kindly.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

53. I'm not saying they go insane. I'm saying everyone's mind & body deteriorates and then we die nt

[MADem]

55. So you want everyone to lay down and die, when? When they're eight years older than Obama is now?

Your argument is as stupid as the nitwits who pulled the "Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty" crap in the sixties.

Time marches on. You WILL get old. Shall we put you on an ice floe and push you out to sea?

[Wetzelbill]

2. I wish Napolitano would have challenged him

But she's likely to stay at Homeland Security. I wouldn't mind seeing Jim Pederson as our next governor. I'll probably move well before then, but it would be nice.

[jzola]

8. Jim Pederson may be a nice guy--

but he's an awful candidate. We need somebody with a little fire and maybe younger than any of the Arizona people who might be in the running right now. Besides Goddard is running for Governor. Maybe someone who wants to be a Senator could move here and run.

[Wetzelbill]

10. right I forgot about Goddard

Not sure how I did that.

Jim Pederson took too long to go after Kyl. He could have won that. I'd like to see some new blood too. In my dreams, but I would love Raul Grijalva as a senator. :)

[zulchzulu]

12. Ya gotta love Raul!

http://grijalva.house.gov/

[Wetzelbill]

13. helluva great guy

A real man of the people. A guy I know from a tribal policy class is one of his top aides, he introduced me to Raul a few years ago. I wish we had hundreds more like him in Congress.

[Bobbieo]

22. I do love Raul. He is my favorite pol!

[drmeow]

29. Janet for Senate was what I was hoping for

Instead we've got Jan and the legislature destroying what little is left of this state.

[vixengrl]

7. I truly thought we had established that the economy

was not his thing. So he wants to run on his complete misunderstanding of an important issue--the very one that torpedoed his campaign (no, more so than Palin) in September?

He is a gift, isn't he?

[Wetzelbill]

11. He can probably get away with it in AZ

Maybe. He just wasn't made to be a national candidate, too many holes in his game and the youtube era of politics crushed his mythical brand.

[Bobbieo]

16. I understand the neocons in the SW corner of the state want him out.

Wonder who they will pick to run against him. And we thought he was bad.

[Wetzelbill]

17. they do

In 2004 some guy made a primary challenge on him. You know how Republicans are though, they fall in line in the end. He'd be next to impossible to beat in a Republican primary, too entrenched. A Dem might be able to beat him, Janet probably could have, outside of that I would think it wouldn't be too likely. The challenger would have to be aggressive and risk going down swinging. But I bet the far right crowd gets somebody completely insane to go after him, lol.

[drmeow]

30. I think Janet had a REAL chance

[Wetzelbill]

31. I would go as far as to say that she would be the favorite

In that one. Maybe not by much, but I've seen polls where she has been much more popular. My uncle was telling me he knows lots of Republicans from his job etc and he's never found one all that happy with McCain. He is entrenched though.

[salguine]

14. Put the makeup back on, Gene Simmons! Put it back the fuck on!!!

[Still Sensible]

15. It's completely about who the Dems put up

and it won't be a slam dunk with anybody. Situation like this tend to make the strongest potential candidates wait.

[MagickMuffin]

18. Senile old bastard, I guess he's forgotten that GW got us into this MESS

We must remember that the cost of both wars were NEVER part of our budget. Billions of Dollars just vanished once it arrived in Iraq.

The War in Iraq Costs: $596,171,285,548


Taxpayers in Arizona will pay $9 billion for total Iraq war spending approved to date. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:

$2,040,965 People with Health Care for One Year OR

$7,738,818 Homes with Renewable Electricity for One Year OR

$201,745 Public Safety Officers for One year OR

$206,059 Music and Arts Teachers for One Year OR

$1,895,326 Scholarships for University Students for One Year OR

$68,770 Affordable Housing Units OR

$4,001,775 Children with Health Care for One Year OR

$1,162,564 Head Start Places for Children for One Year OR

$204,023 Elementary School Teachers for One Year OR

$107,585 Port Container Inspectors for One year



My District

Taxpayers in Congressional District 12 (Granger) will pay $1.7 billion for total Iraq war spending approved to date. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:

$395,757 People with Health Care for One Year OR

$1,319,793 Homes with Renewable Electricity for One Year OR

$40,140 Public Safety Officers for One year OR

$30,424 Music and Arts Teachers for One Year OR

$227,137 Scholarships for University Students for One Year OR

$20,662 Affordable Housing Units OR

$744,348 Children with Health Care for One Year OR

$248,431 Head Start Places for Children for One Year OR

$32,500 Elementary School Teachers for One Year OR

$27,851 Port Container Inspectors for One year


Find out much money your congressional district could have if it weren't for the unnecessary war in Iraq.

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home

[zulchzulu]

20. Good stuff to remind the people of Arizona about...

McCain's many gaffes can certainly be used against him, particularly his cluelessness about the economy and the "success" in the Iraq War. NOw he can be seen as an obstructionist for getting the people of Arizona to get much needed help.

[MagickMuffin]

23. Is McCain Senile, or just using Selective Memory?.?.?

I find it amazing how the rethuglicons seem incapable of seeing the whole picture. However, when you see them wearing their blinders their viewpoint is rather narrow minded.

I certainly hope Arizona has better luck unseating McCain with the help of the Senatorial Campaign Funds than Texas did with trying to unseat John Cornyn. We had an excellent candidate in Rick Noriega and he couldn't get ANY help from the Schummer. Hillary asked them to help him, Bill came to Texas to campaign with him, but Washington refused to help:shrug:

Now we're stuck with Cornyn for another SIX long years. :puke: As you have probably noticed he is a "dick" and he was one flapping his pieho over the Stimulus Bill. Gee, I wonder where Noriega would have stood.

We have NO representation from our Texas Senators in DC. They didn't even bother to show up to vote on several occasions.:cry:

[TlalocW]

21. Unfortunately, he's probably going to win

There's going to be a combination of people proud to have an almost-president keep being senator, people who feel sorry for the senile old bastard, and bitter republicans who want him there to bedevil Obama, and they're going to re-elect him.

TlalocW

[MADem]

24. I suspect it'll be an uphill climb to unseat him. He's popular in his home state.

His wife employs a lot of people, too.

The tongue thing is odd, isn't it?

[Politicalboi]

26. I think the one who runs against MaGoo

Should use those pictures every time they show a commercial.

[Hello_Kitty]

27. There is a movement to draft (retired) Gen. John Adams for Senate

John is a former NATO commander who supported Obama. I've met him and he is very impressive. Here's the Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/board.php?uid=49064046218

[nomorenomore08]

28. Please, Arizona! PLEASE vote this man out!

Otherwise he'll wind up as another Strom Thurmond - senile and wheelchair-bound yet still inexplicably holding office.

[catgirl]

32. But McCain thought the economy was healthy

That statement needs to be run over and over again in 2010, along with images
of those affected by the economy.

[invictus]

33. K&R

[DRoseDARs]

34. To the question of his tongue, it's a neurological thing.

Sometime early in the General Election season I heard an explanation for that bizarre tick he has but have since forgotten. I believe it's just something that comes with age for some people ... and Lizard People.

[olegramps]

35. It is time to start building a war chest for the 2010 elections.

Every effort should be made to get the finances that will enable Democrats to defeat as many Republicans as possible; especially McCain and his ilk.

A massive median campaign should be launched to expose the Republicans as the unprincipled enemy of the working class.

It should demonstrate that their latest attempt to subjugate the workers to a position of servitude was their determination to destroy the stimulus package. It should be educational in showing that their most recent onslaught against the New Deal policies that created the middle class has been a continuation of their war on the working class that was inaugurated by Reagan.

The Republican Party's engagement in class warfare should be met with the determination to not invalidate the Republican Party, but to totally destroy it.

[Enthusiast]

43. And to think, I used to respect McCain.

He wasn't deserving of my respect. I was wrong.