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Mary Anne — 8/12/2006 10:32:51 PM (archived)

Re: McCain:

I just finished reading an essay in a collection by David Foster Wallace. The collection is Consider the Lobster. The essay is "Up, Simba", in which he recalls his days as Rolling Stone's political correspondent on the McCain campaign trail in 2000. In between terrific descriptions of reporting life on the road, including a description of the elite media reporters that the others called "The 12 Monkeys" because they looked like they came out of the same box of animal crackers, Wallace remarked that McCain's campaign lost what sincerity it had the very second it became possible that he could win. Tilting at windmills is great for the noble eccentric. Owning and operating them makes goring them with lances much less fun.

Wallace's most cogent observation, for me, was that the liberal people didn't really cheer McCain, because they didn't realize what he really supports. They cheered their own ability to cheer, to be refreshed by listening to someone whom they believed will tell them the truth about himself, even if he's not someone whose positions they would support if they were sober.

BTW: If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve. Be glad. I would put child care and elder care at the very top of the national agenda.

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Reply to "John McCain" - Fox - 8/12/2006 5:09:08 AM
- What hath Fox wrought? (n/t) - ER - 8/12/2006 5:08:48 PM
- Loserman and McCraven, and the Democratic Quest for Spines - The Veep - 8/12/2006 5:02:08 PM
  - Aw, you can read cue cards. - Mary Anne - 8/12/2006 10:32:51 PM
    - re: Your nomination - Fox - 8/13/2006 12:51:48 AM
    - re: Aw, you can read cue cards. - azstrummer - 8/13/2006 12:25:33 AM
      - How about Gothic Lolita with a riding crop? - Mary Anne - 8/13/2006 1:38:18 AM
        
        kickeeey!!!!!! - Publius - 8/13/2006 5:52:20 PM
        
        More like this: - Mary Anne - 8/13/2006 6:25:41 PM
        
        Actually, I think she's kinda cute. (n/t) - ER - 8/15/2006 1:33:22 AM
        
        Ugly shoes, though. (n/t) - alcaray - 8/15/2006 5:22:14 PM
        
        Yes - in a Salem Harlot way ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 8/15/2006 4:08:21 AM
        
        Now *that's* what I call "Death warmed over" - Fox - 8/14/2006 4:22:54 PM
        
        Crap, can't bend my fingers to type. - azstrummer - 8/14/2006 4:11:33 AM
        
        Yeah, but it's no fun to take off an imagination! (n/t) - Publius - 8/14/2006 1:50:00 AM
    - We'll write you in.! - ER - 8/12/2006 11:46:10 PM
  - I agree with you on McCain - Lindy - 8/12/2006 7:11:00 PM
    - re: I agree with you on McCain - ER - 8/12/2006 8:16:33 PM
      - We have spoken of this before....... - Lindy - 8/12/2006 8:40:00 PM
        
        No, he's just a politician that smells blood in the water. - ER - 8/12/2006 8:52:45 PM
        
        Keep your eyes out for those GOP bast*rds! - Lindy - 8/12/2006 10:05:05 PM
- the view from over here - Daniel - 8/12/2006 4:34:47 PM
  - Not bad.... - FrankC - 8/12/2006 7:40:10 PM
    - You'd just get the same initiatives over and over again, with slight variations - tony - 8/12/2006 8:57:40 PM
    - re: Not bad.... - Daniel - 8/12/2006 8:15:59 PM
  - *chuckle* (n/t) - Fox - 8/12/2006 4:59:39 PM
- LOL - Lindy - 8/12/2006 4:22:54 PM
  - It comes and goes... - Fox - 8/12/2006 5:13:14 PM
- Well done. And here's the short form of the betrayal. - Bowser - 8/12/2006 2:33:49 PM
- This is one I can't resist. - ER - 8/12/2006 12:43:47 PM
  - re: Pendulums, and clear choice - Fox - 8/12/2006 6:27:06 PM
  - Down the middle - Lindy - 8/12/2006 4:36:21 PM
  - Neither can I - McFly - 8/12/2006 2:15:44 PM
- Sinking ship - Tom Brosz - 8/12/2006 6:47:20 AM
  - The Democratic voters of Connecticut have chosen the candidate they want to represent them. - Mary Anne - 8/12/2006 10:11:51 PM
    - Current polls of ALL voters: Lieberman 46%, Lamont 41% (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/13/2006 6:49:24 AM
      - Where's the Republican candidate? - Mary Anne - 8/13/2006 6:05:51 PM
        
        Six percent. Down from 13. - Tom Brosz - 8/14/2006 6:16:20 PM
        
        You're calling an erstwhile Democratic Senator "the pro-Bush candidate". - Mary Anne - 8/15/2006 12:45:26 PM
        
        "pro-Bush candidate" was supposed to be in quotes. - Tom Brosz - 8/15/2006 4:45:23 PM
        
        If Lieberman's record is so liberal... - alcaray - 8/15/2006 5:24:14 PM
        
        re: If Lieberman's record is so liberal... - Tom Brosz - 8/16/2006 7:04:26 AM
        
        re: "The Republican is at six percent last time I looked." That's part of what I referred to. Again: why? - alcaray - 8/16/2006 3:14:56 PM
        
        Same reason I don't vote Libertarian. - Tom Brosz - 8/16/2006 10:54:26 PM
        
        Not hard to understand. Only confusing because you refused to articulate it till now. - alcaray - 8/17/2006 3:18:10 PM
        
        Just to wind up the thread, latest poll results in Connecticut - Tom Brosz - 8/17/2006 5:07:08 PM
        
        75% of Republicans approved of Lieberman's job as senator. - alcaray - 8/17/2006 5:38:49 PM
        
        Funny about that... - Fox - 8/14/2006 4:30:45 PM
        
        He had been following the analysis of CT election law. - Mary Anne - 8/14/2006 9:01:52 PM
  - "Oh no, we wont give in, we'll keep living in the past." -- Jethro Tull (n/t) - Fox - 8/12/2006 3:40:49 PM
  - I wouldn't dwell on the sinking ship analogy if I were in your political shoes (n/t) - alcaray - 8/12/2006 3:39:13 PM

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