More Bear ‘Sign’ is showing on the McCain trail
Yep, McCain’s still signaling how bearish he is about his election chances, as he appeals to that part of the GOP base that has to go all the way to South Dakota for their titty bar & testickling power machine thrills.
Of course, there’s no doubt there’s some Dems in that crowd, as there’s a pretty wide umbrella over that party. But the fact that the guy, from a long line of uppity naval brass, has to drop into such a gathering, to prove he’s a regular beer-swilling guy, open to having his beer-selling wife ogled at something called a ‘Buffalo Chip’ pageant, doesn’t quite carry the elegance of Jackie taking Paris.
Why, so late in the campaign, is McCain still trying to shore up his base?
It’s said that politics makes strange bedfellows, but it’s an entirely new dimension to have a candidate offering up his wife for a menage a trois. (That means a ‘four-holer’, in Redneckese.)
Bikers in the crowd, who had arrived from around the country to partake in the massive outdoor party, revved their engines numerous times in support of the presumptive GOP nominee. McCain said it was music to his ears.
“This is my first time here,” he said, “but I recognize that sound. It’s the sound of freedom.”
If McCain seemed more energized than usual, it might have been because the rally was one the campaign’s most colorful (and noisy) events in recent months. He even purchased four commemorative t-shirts.
I remember that sound of freedom revving up on the night before Washington crossed the Delaware. Lincoln, of course, stocked up on t-shirts that said ‘Gettysburg Rocks!’ And who can forget how the Nazi blitzkriegs and sharpshooters were defeated by Schlitz kegs and flappy hooters?
That’s a mighty tenuous hold you’ve got on half your base, Senator. For the other half, do you plan to market them as Born Again Boobies at the church bake sale?
