If you can read this, either the style sheet didn't load or you have an older browser that doesn't support style sheets. Try clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page.
Fark SearchWeb Fark

         more options... Create account

(St. Petersburg Times) Cool Maverick's Goose isn't cooked yet. He's on the attack like a Viper. The Sundown is always imminent, but John McCain still has a chance to be the Top Gun   (tampabay.com) divider line 77
More: Cool  
•       •       •

1532 clicks; posted to Politics » on 25 Oct 2008 at 3:27 AM   |  Make this a Fark FavoriteFavorite    |   share: Share on OMGTWITTER WEB2.0share on StumbleUponshare on Facebook  more»   |    Get this fabulous T-Shirt and impress the methane out of your friends! shirt it!

77 Comments   (+0 »)


Fark.com's  Political Inclination Thermometric Analyzer:
Neutral 2.48% Fascist
Archived thread
First | « | 1 | 2 | » | Last | Show all
 
cretinbob [TotalFark] 2008-10-25 01:13:17 AM  
I'm just waiting for the big gay sweaty volleyball scene.

 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] 2008-10-25 01:27:03 AM  
Iceman is dripping with anticipation.

img131.imageshack.us

 
lajimi [TotalFark] 2008-10-25 01:35:22 AM  
Great headline, Subby. You take my breath away!

 
Foaming [TotalFark] 2008-10-25 03:10:30 AM  
McCain stopped being a maverick right around here
www.truthdig.com

 
CynicalLA 2008-10-25 03:31:09 AM  
NewportBarGuy: Iceman is dripping with anticipation.

You can be my wingman any time, Maverick.

 
machocomacho 2008-10-25 03:31:09 AM  

 
Phil Moskowitz 2008-10-25 03:33:27 AM  
I wonder how many write ins will be for Maverick.

 
Argh2 2008-10-25 03:35:47 AM  
Phil Moskowitz: I wonder how many write ins will be for Maverick.

And how many for Mavrick?

 
organizm 2008-10-25 03:35:51 AM  
Call me nuts, but I think the old John McCain will resurface once the emotions of this campaign settle down. I expect him to show a lot of public support for President Obama and will make strides to reunite the country. Really, for some reason right now, I honestly believe what I'm saying.

I also think he'll be one of Palin's most outspoken Republican critics when she makes a bid in 2012 (assuming she's not in jail by then for all the shiat she's pulled in Alaska)

 
Wally McAwesome 2008-10-25 03:35:59 AM  
CynicalLA: NewportBarGuy: Iceman is dripping with anticipation.

You can be my wingman any time, Maverick.


Bullshiat! You can be mine!

 
CynicalLA 2008-10-25 03:36:44 AM  
Wally McAwesome: CynicalLA: NewportBarGuy: Iceman is dripping with anticipation.

You can be my wingman any time, Maverick.

Bullshiat! You can be mine!


You killed Goose, I'll take over.

 
The Great EZE [TotalFark] 2008-10-25 03:37:39 AM  
TFA's Headline: "'Maverick' McCain now plays to the base"

You mean he wasn't before?! I thought he knew "the base" was all he has left. If he's been playing to anybody else, he's been doing a piss poor job of it.

 
duckfarkit 2008-10-25 03:40:13 AM  
"He'll say anything to get elected," McCain roared to a crowd projected


FTFY

 
whereisian 2008-10-25 03:46:27 AM  
Argh2: And how many for Mavrick?

i33.tinypic.com

/had to

 
TheDaymoose 2008-10-25 03:48:40 AM  
more like Goofstown

AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHA

It's late.

 
CynicalLA 2008-10-25 03:48:43 AM  
whereisian: Argh2: And how many for Mavrick?



/had to


Beautiful, get a brain morans.

 
duckfarkit 2008-10-25 03:49:22 AM  
FTA: the aide took the posters back from the Joes and put them back on the bus for the next stop. Different city, same message. He says that's way better than having to repaint them every night.

"It took me like five rallies before I realized I could do that," he said.



Should be the defining meme of the McCain campaign. eg:

"I'm suspending my campaign until this crisis is resolved."
*thinks:"It took me like five rallies before I realized I could do that"*

 
CaesarSneezy 2008-10-25 03:50:12 AM  
No, actually McCain is going to lose by a large margin of electoral votes.

 
TheDaymoose 2008-10-25 03:53:10 AM  
CaesarSneezy: No, actually McCain is going to lose by a large margin of electoral votes.

Yes that's true

But we can't say that, because then people might think "eh, I'm pretty tired, I'm sure Obama will be fine"

So the press is trying to make the race look closer. IE: This is bad news... for McCain

 
Kittypie070 2008-10-25 04:00:04 AM  
Maverick's Goose isn't cooked yet. He's on the attack
like a Viper. The Sundown is always imminent, but John
McCain still has a chance to be the Top Gun.


Nice, subby.

Lots better than any FAIL-inducing gobbledygook I can cobble
up with "Tigh+Six/Raider/Toaster/blah whatever."

I'm gonna go tuck my paws and wait the last ten days out hiding
under my piecrust.

i55.photobucket.com

 
CynicalLA 2008-10-25 04:01:43 AM  
Kittypie070: Maverick's Goose isn't cooked yet. He's on the attack
like a Viper. The Sundown is always imminent, but John Calico Kitt
up with "Tigh+Six/Raider/Toaster/blah whatever."

I'm gonna go tuck my paws and wait the last ten days out hiding
under my piecrust.


Calico Kittie Pie, my favorite.

 
CaesarSneezy 2008-10-25 04:05:47 AM  
TheDaymoose: CaesarSneezy: No, actually McCain is going to lose by a large margin of electoral votes.

Yes that's true

But we can't say that, because then people might think "eh, I'm pretty tired, I'm sure Obama will be fine"

So the press is trying to make the race look closer. IE: This is bad news... for McCain


Sure, you want that attitude for Obama. I'm really feeling Barr this year (although I prefer Obama to McCain), so I think the neck in neck race attitude hurts my candidate, because it convinces fiscal conservatives to vote for the lesser of two evils (McCain, according to the propaganda) instead of who they really agree with.

 
SeismicJizzer 2008-10-25 04:10:52 AM  
organizm: Call me nuts, but I think the old John McCain will resurface once the emotions of this campaign settle down. I expect him to show a lot of public support for President Obama and will make strides to reunite the country. Really, for some reason right now, I honestly believe what I'm saying.

I also think he'll be one of Palin's most outspoken Republican critics when she makes a bid in 2012 (assuming she's not in jail by then for all the shiat she's pulled in Alaska)


I hope so, but for McCain politics is always personal and he is hated by his own colleagues so he just might retire and drive for irrelevance.

/You should have stuck to an honorable campaign John, it would have been a closer election.

 
starsrift 2008-10-25 04:13:15 AM  
I think the only people who are winning America's presidential election are the media.

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2008-10-25 04:15:08 AM  
the headline is insufficently mavricky

 
gargalesis 2008-10-25 04:16:57 AM  
i said it before.

i will paste it again.

been reading the comments of fark.com for a few months.

am convinced that all you liberal/democrat supporters are full blown window licking, short bus riding retards.

come on.

facts are presented and you call, "conspiracy."
al gore is the biggest scammer in our time, and he is given a pass.
and after man-bear-pig alerter are countless other democrats that are at fault for wrecking the country. but "NO," they have a good intention, and are making themselves heavier in the pocket, it is all for the good of your fellow man.

i know that the country is on wrong track but, socialism voting democrat is not the way

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2008-10-25 04:17:45 AM  
starsrift: I think the only people who are winning America's presidential election are the media.

Are you kidding? The libtard MSM have been totally discredited. They're in the tank for NObama and everybody knows it. They suck.

 
Sluggard Stone 2008-10-25 04:22:54 AM  
Maverick? That is it? Is that all he can do?

He did that eight years ago and lost the nom to another maverick. Of course we don't talk about that that maverick because he is not worth a mention these days.

McCain has a team of mavericks now. That may work...It could be like the A-Team, but with a chick...and a guy that has crashed a lot fighter jets...at really high speeds...a couple of times...that has cancer...a couple of times.

We are just looking for half a season with the fighter jet, cancer guy. Then the chick, that should needs to be in shorts for the fist half of the season, takes over.

That would be fun...or really not.

 
Sluggard Stone 2008-10-25 04:26:31 AM  
oops, I should needs another drink.

 
organizm 2008-10-25 04:26:34 AM  
gargalesis: am convinced that all you liberal/democrat supporters are full blown window licking, short bus riding retards.

come on.

facts are presented and you call, "conspiracy."
al gore is the biggest scammer in our time, and he is given a pass.
and after man-bear-pig alerter are countless other democrats that are at fault for wrecking the country. but "NO," they have a good intention, and are making themselves heavier in the pocket, it is all for the good of your fellow man.


Dude, what the hell are you talking about. Seriously. Go back and re-read what you just wrote out loud. I'd love to refute some of your points, but um, you really didn't make any points, and I'm really, honestly, have no idea what you are talking about, or trying to say.

Actually, you know what. Here.



I'm going to bed.

 
organizm 2008-10-25 04:30:53 AM  
gargalesis: been reading the comments of fark.com for a few months.

am convinced that all you liberal/democrat supporters are full blown window licking, short bus riding retards.

come on.

facts are presented and you call, "conspiracy."
al gore is the biggest scammer in our time, and he is given a pass.
and after man-bear-pig alerter are countless other democrats that are at fault for wrecking the country. but "NO," they have a good intention, and are making themselves heavier in the pocket, it is all for the good of your fellow man.



Meant to post this for you:
farm4.static.flickr.com

 
Semi-Sane 2008-10-25 04:31:03 AM  
McCain has the election in the bag. The only reason why he appears to be losing is due to the mass number of liberal biased polls.

Obama supporters will be in for quite a surprise come Election Day.

 
Relatively Obscure [TotalFark] 2008-10-25 04:35:43 AM  
gargalesis: i said it before.

i will paste it again.

been reading the comments of fark.com for a few months.

am convinced that all you liberal/democrat supporters are full blown window licking, short bus riding retards.

come on.

facts are presented and you call, "conspiracy."
al gore is the biggest scammer in our time, and he is given a pass.
and after man-bear-pig alerter are countless other democrats that are at fault for wrecking the country. but "NO," they have a good intention, and are making themselves heavier in the pocket, it is all for the good of your fellow man.

i know that the country is on wrong track but, socialism voting democrat is not the way


*head pat*

 
galewgleason 2008-10-25 04:35:58 AM  
Semi-Sane
McCain has the election in the bag. The only reason why he appears to be losing is due to the mass number of liberal biased polls.

Obama supporters will be in for quite a surprise come Election Day.


i14.photobucket.com

Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive

 
gargalesis 2008-10-25 04:37:13 AM  
for real,

get bent,

and get a lot of lube,

your messiah, is gonna stick it to you.

i suggest going to bed.

dream of a better america, with low emission unicorns and universal mani/pedis.

 
unyon [TotalFark] 2008-10-25 04:37:30 AM  
organizm: Call me nuts, but I think the old John McCain will resurface once the emotions of this campaign settle down. I expect him to show a lot of public support for President Obama and will make strides to reunite the country. Really, for some reason right now, I honestly believe what I'm saying.

That's not entirely crazy. It almost seems like McCain is a POW to his own inept campaign. If he would have just been John earlier, he may not have had the base, but he would have had fiscal conservatives and a whole lot more swing votes on his side. But he has the millstones of a lurching campaign, advise to attack on character, the fear of the left of the republican base, George Bush, Sarah Palin, and a charismatic, well funded opponent. It would have been an uphill battle in any event.

He should have been attacking Obama from the left on his mortgage buyout plan and sucking up to the middle. It isn't rocket science.

It's a good thing he probably won't win, though. He'd probably be a decent president, but he'd be surrounded by the nearsighted Bushies in his campaign, and a VP that wants his job.

You could almost tell that Obama was regretting where their relationship was going in the campaign, because one suspects that Obama views (or viewed) McCain as a useful bridge to help gather bipartisan support, and could have really used him. I doubt that he will have offered him a position in his government, but that's mostly because it would damage McCain's political career, rendering him less effective.

That might be water under the bridge by now, too.

 
Drew Hates Boobies 2008-10-25 04:43:14 AM  
To recap...

The Obama campaign
www.willisms.com


The McCain campaign
www.b24.net

/that is all

 
Kittypie070 2008-10-25 04:45:30 AM  
gargalesis

i know that the country is on wrong track but, socialism voting democrat is not the way

(pauses from licking windows)

OK, fair enough.

Now, seriously...what in your humble opinion is the
proper non-'socialist', non-Democrat way!?

Offer me a real-life pragmatic WORKABLE solution/candidate
that won't make me want to bop myself in the skull with a
Louisville Slugger because the candidate's less-workable
ideas sound like John Birch operating a jackhammer while
on tainted methamphetamines.

(crawls back beneath piecrust)

 
Sluggard Stone 2008-10-25 04:51:34 AM  
Drew Hates Boobies: To recap...

The Obama campaign

/that is all


That is the coolest Tomcat painting I have ever seen.

Zing, Thanks man.

 
Rug Doctor 2008-10-25 04:51:49 AM  
galewgleason: Semi-Sane
McCain has the election in the bag. The only reason why he appears to be losing is due to the mass number of liberal biased polls.

Obama supporters will be in for quite a surprise come Election Day.



Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive


Noooooooo! THAT"S IMPOSSIBLE! I'LL NEVER JOIN YOU!!!

 
slobarnuts 2008-10-25 04:54:08 AM  
organizm: Call me nuts, but I think the old John McCain will resurface once the emotions of this campaign settle down. I expect him to show a lot of public support for President Obama and will make strides to reunite the country. Really, for some reason right now, I honestly believe what I'm saying.

I also think he'll be one of Palin's most outspoken Republican critics when she makes a bid in 2012 (assuming she's not in jail by then for all the shiat she's pulled in Alaska)


From some of the body language of the campaign, I somewhat doubt it. McCain has displayed that he really doesn't like Obama, (with the exception of the Al Smith dinner, which was refreshing) I could be wrong though. But McCain really is one to hold a grudge. When someone published an unfavorable article about his wife, he blacklisted them from access for 12 years.

I could be wrong though. THe problem with this damn election is that I can't tell who the real McCain is anymore.

 
Rug Doctor 2008-10-25 04:54:25 AM  
Semi-Sane: McCain has the election in the bag. The only reason why he appears to be losing is due to the mass number of liberal biased polls fact that polls don't account for "humidity."

FTFY.

 
Sluggard Stone 2008-10-25 05:05:18 AM  
I get no play...and I really tried.

 
duckfarkit 2008-10-25 05:07:51 AM  
Gargalesis:i said it before.

i will paste it again.

been reading the comments of fark.com for a few months.

am convinced that all you liberal/democrat supporters are full blown window licking, short bus riding retards.

come on.

facts are presented and you call, "conspiracy."
al gore is the biggest scammer in our time, and he is given a pass.
and after man-bear-pig alerter are countless other democrats that are at fault for wrecking the country. but "NO," they have a good intention, and are making themselves heavier in the pocket, it is all for the good of your fellow man.

i know that the country is on wrong track but, socialism voting democrat is not the way



Your vague, shiatty post; alluding to several points yet addressing none, requires,faults notwithstanding, a response.

Yes, the country is on the wrong track. A very conservative, well-educated friend of mine once told me (a recent immigrant at the time) that, and I paraphrase,: "the administration changes, but the republic goes on". I took his point to mean that for a stable yet democratically dynamic two-party political system to operate usefully, a balance of political wills must average out over the course of several presidential administrations. To whit: the political pendulum has swung so far to the right during the last 8 years, that any reasonable person would wish for a swing to the left merely as a matter of balance in the longer term.

Obama is not a socialist to anyone with even a precursory knowledge of what that term means.

Vote your conscience this time.

Fear and pragmatism are the cornerstones of the conservative mindset.

Hope and idealism are the cornerstones of the liberal mindset.

If you look at the big/long term picture, this time around, it is pretty obvious that voting democrat for president is the wise move for anyone who professes to love this country.

Long live the republic!
Obama 08, because it's the right thing to do.

 
Wadded Beef 2008-10-25 05:10:02 AM  
Semi-Sane: McCain has the election in the bag. The only reason why he appears to be losing is due to the mass number of liberal biased polls.

Obama supporters will be in for quite a surprise come Election Day.


WHAT? EVACUATE? In our moment of TRIUMPH? I think you overestimate your chances.

/I kid, I kid. Dark Side = McCain and his ilk. Without question.
//Obama in what...70 days?

 
corscariqua 2008-10-25 05:14:48 AM  
Semi-Sane: McCain has the election in the bag.

img523.imageshack.us

 
starsrift 2008-10-25 05:15:14 AM  
Bucky Katt: starsrift: I think the only people who are winning America's presidential election are the media.

Are you kidding? The libtard MSM have been totally discredited. They're in the tank for NObama and everybody knows it. They suck.


I think it's safe to say that a media company's board of directors isn't interested in earning credibility.

 
duckfarkit 2008-10-25 05:29:38 AM  
Bucky Katt: starsrift: I think the only people who are winning America's presidential election are the media.

Are you kidding? The libtard MSM have been totally discredited. They're in the tank for NObama and everybody knows it. They suck.

I think it's safe to say that a media company's board of directors isn't interested in earning credibility.



Word.
There are two two things you can't do with credibility:

(1) Buy shiat
(2) drink my gnarly head (new window)

Oh! or make a pterodactyl...

 
TheMysteriousStranger 2008-10-25 07:57:24 AM  
Too bad Palin was not kicked off the ticket so we could have had a headlines like "Goose ejected from Maverick's plane, in loony condition"

 
modestlivinglegend 2008-10-25 09:24:41 AM  
As one of the 3%:
Neither of the two main candidates deserves to win. Obama is a product of Tom Daschell and his liberal, "tax and control" crew. They primed Obama for this election, to beat Billy-blow job Clinton's undesirable, but insanely ambitious "wife". They made sure Obama voted for nothing, stood for nothing and cleared the way to push him through the election, screaming "racism" until election day to ensure no one touched him. Obama himself is only guilty of being mislead and serious Bush-bashing.
McCain is so dirty and messed up (massive pancakery), but landed the nom by shear luck as no Republican could please the remaining uber religious wack jobs in the party, least of all John. And the remaining Republican voters could not pick those who could please the "pro-life" anti-woman click that was all to vocal (the only Republicans willing to reveal themselves). But John, like Daschell's set, prepped for this election by Bush-bashing all along the way to the point of ludicracy. Bush, who has done nothing deliberately wrong, and who has made great strides in most difficult challenges he faced, should and deserves very high praise, but due to dirty politics, has been smashed to the ground. All the Bush bashers deserve what you get. Are you happy? Is your economy good? Oh it isn't? Oh I am so sorry to hear that. NOT.

 
Displayed 50 of 77 comments

First | « | 1 | 2 | » | Last | Show all


[Continue Farking]