By predicting publicly that he would win.

Bushtrodamus doesn’t exactly have the best track record when it comes to prediction making.

(Cross posted at The November Blog)

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Our friends at Redstate.com (they aren’t really our friends, my friends, as John McCain loves to say, my friends) are totally freaking out. It turns out that John McCain is a huge ABBA fan, and attempted to use their hit “Take A Chance On Me” as his new campaign song (after being totally rejected by John Mellencamp when McCain wanted to use one of his songs).

Declares the anti-ABBA forces at Redstate:

WTH? Who in the heck is advising McCain? Is there anything less manly than this?

Apparently there isn’t. I think those “gay sweaters” that his advisers have been forcing him to wear are clearly taking their toll.

(Cross posted at The November Blog)

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He’s also not against torture, as he voted against the waterboarding ban in the Senate today.

But a few months ago, while debating torture apologist Rudy Giuliani, McCain said that he was against waterboarding because it was torture.

If someone can explain to me how this makes any sense, and how John McCain is still anti-torture, still a maverick, and still chock full o’ principles, I will switch party affiliations and vote for John McCain in November.

I’m waiting…

(Cross posted at The November Blog)

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Apparently, Ol’ Freddie Thompson endorsed John McCain a few days ago, but nobody knew about it, not even CNN.

Could it be that Ol’ Freddie was just too lazy to appear on t.v. for like 10 seconds and say, “Shucks, folks, I sure do like John McCain. Golly, gosh and shucks.”?

I mean, a t.v. crew could have even just gone over to Ol’ Freddie’s ol’ house and filmed him for a couple of minutes talkin ’bout how, golly, John McCain sure would make a great prezdent.

Apparently Ol’ Freddie is even too lazy for that.

McCain/Thompson ‘08!

(Cross posted at The November Blog)

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This is a very weird story. So the primary coverage was bouncing along Saturday, with Mike Huckabee trouncing John McCain in Kansas and winning a squeaker in Louisiana. The race in Washington appeared to be going down to the wire, too. And then… the Washington GOP just stopped counting and gave McCain the victory. Leading to this exchange between the head of the state GOP and Huckabee’s lawyer (and his daughter-in-law):

Finally, Luke Esser, the chair of the state GOP party, returned the Huckabee campaign’s call, saying the final results would be determined sometime within the week.

The only hitch? The state chairman had already declared John McCain the winner last night, with only a 242 vote lead. In a written statement last night, Esser said, “Congratulations to Sen. McCain for a hard-fought win, his second caucus victory in the 2008 presidential nomination process. And congratulations to Gov. Huckabee for his strong second-place finish.”

Huckabee campaign lawyer Lauren Huckabee (daughter-in-law of the candidate), who is skeptical of the fairness, asked for a lawyer to monitor the resluts.

The state GOP denied the request and hung up on Lauren Huckabee, according to the campaign. Campaign adviser Ed Rollins will be sending lawyers to Olympia, scheduled to land this evening, to investigate the matter.

At a hastily arranged press conference in a hotel room, Rollins was steamed.

“You don’t get to announce the votes until they are all counted. And obviously, by his attempts to project without any statistical data or even if he had statistical data, it’s irrelevant: we’re entitled to a fair, full count,” Rollins said.

“Our lawyers attempted to contact him today, finally did so about ten minutes ago. He said, ‘Well I don’t know where the precincts, are, I just sort of did it. How dare Mike Huckabee challenge – he has to trust us. We’re going to count the rest of the votes today in the office.’”

“We asked to have someone go in to the office with them and count the votes and he refused us. He said he would have to notify the other campaigns.”

Huckabee called it Soviet-style tactics and he’s not wrong. The Republican Party is a top-down establishment outfit, and they clearly have an interest in wrapping up their race with the utmost speed. But stopping the counting? McCain is playing dumb about it and trying to say “trust the state GOP,” but it’s kind of hard to do so when they shut down the election and declare a winner before all the votes are in.

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Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund opines:

In some ways Mr. McCain resembles Nicolas Sarkozy, the French conservative who won last year’s presidential election even though the retiring president, Jacques Chirac, was unpopular and a member of his own party. “Like Sarko, who was of Chirac’s party but not of Chirac, America’s swing voters have intuited over the years that there is little love lost between McCain and George Bush,” says the blog Race42008.

Mr. Sarkozy was able to convince a majority of French voters that he represented real change that would improve conditions, while his socialist rival, Segolene Royal, represented risky change that could make matters worse. That is precisely the challenge Mr. McCain faces this year against Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.

Oh great. So, French conservative beats lady liberal, immediately proceeds as first Act of State to divorce old wife and all but reach up the skirt of hot new babe. Is this what we have to look forward to under a McCain presidency? Senator McCain hopping on the Straight Talk Express away from his second wife and moving in for engagement ring number three?

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Yes indeed:

“Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.”

– John McCain, 1998

Think the mainstream media will remember that one?

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These guys never seem to get it do they?

Redstate.com Editor Erick Erickson tells his audience that they must read a piece in today’s Wall Street Journal which makes the case that the Republicans lost the election in 2006 because of out- of-control spending, and argues that they will lose the 2008 election as well if they don’t work towards “re-establishing the GOP as a party of limited government and economic freedom,” and pick a fiscally conservative running-mate for McCain.

It’s no secret that John McCain believes that his party lost the 2006 mid-terms because of spending (so does former candidate and still fascist Rudy Giuliani), and with a clueless doofus like him at the top of the ticket, Democrats should take advantage of the opportunity to continue to highlight how out of touch with the country the Republican party is.

After all, the Republicans lost the 2006 elections because of Bush’s unpopularity, the war in Iraq, and corruption. And Bush will still be president come this November (and he seems eager to campaign for McCain, which of course could likely doom the Senator’s candidacy), the war will still be going terribly, and a new crop of scandals is threatening to further sully the Republican party’s reputation.

You guys just keep running on the idea that the country hates you because of over-spending. I dare you.

(Cross posted at The November Blog)

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I’m watching this speech with Rudy Giuliani endorsing John McCain, and afterwards McCain gets up there and mentions 9/11 three times in his 5-minute speech.

It’s like a disease that’s catching.

p.s. The end of the prospect of Rudy Giuliani in federal government should bring howls of joy across the nation and maybe even the world. The man was a psychotic with post-traumatic stress disorder, and an authoritarian narcissist who would have been the worst possible outcome for any logical human being. The idea that he would be in any kind of McCain veepstakes is beyond crazy. Um, what great campaigning skills does he bring to the table? Would he compel a strategy of sitting out the general election and waiting for a December run-off?

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Who will Old Man McCain choose?

There’s a possibility that since his radical rightwing turn on immigration, Mike Huckabee would shore up Walnuts‘ base deficiency on that issue. Plus there’s the whole Huckabee talks to God thing which would help McCain shyster the “Jesus did so ride a dinosaur!” vote.

My other guess is Charlie Crist. A southern Governor. Younger than McCain. Will deliver Florida. And then there’s the possibility that the “Jesus did so ride a dinosaur” voters might think that with a last name like that, the Governor of Florida could be related to Mr. Jesus Christ.

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