# Enemies won't challenge McCain **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 23, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enemies-wont-challenge-mccain/469156 "2008-10-23T00:59:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enemies-wont-challenge-mccain/469156/41 "2008-10-23T17:30:21Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > Well, if you get John Wayne on your side, it’s all over but the body counting. At least in the movies, anyway. John Wayne for President. Has a nice ring to it. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enemies-wont-challenge-mccain/469156/42 "2008-10-23T17:31:57Z")
**NinjaChick** , I love you. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enemies-wont-challenge-mccain/469156/43 "2008-10-23T17:34:25Z")
> [@Jolly\_Roger](#): > > I guess you’d have to have seen the episode to get the joke. It was pretty funny in that context. I thought it was pretty funny anyway. Lighten up, **Hostile Fetus**. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enemies-wont-challenge-mccain/469156/44 "2008-10-23T19:50:18Z")
> [@Jolly Roger](#): > > I guess you’d have to have seen the episode to get the joke. It was pretty funny in that context. :smack: Sorry, **Sitnam**. > [@Miller](#): > > Oh, come on. That was funny. If you’ve seen the Futurama episode, I guess… > [@Vinyl Turnip](#): > > I thought it was pretty funny anyway. Lighten up, Hostile Fetus. Nothing to do with lightening up–I just didn’t think it was funny. I guess YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enemies-wont-challenge-mccain/469156/45 "2008-10-23T20:17:36Z")
> [@Hostile\_Dialect](#): > > :smack: Sorry, **Sitnam**. No problem. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enemies-wont-challenge-mccain/469156/46 "2008-10-23T20:22:15Z")
> [@Omegaman](#): > > John Wayne for President. Has a nice ring to it. Given that he’s been dead for a good while now, I’m guessing his campaign slogan will either be “Git me out of this box, you varmits!” or “_Braaaaaaiiiiiiins!_” ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enemies-wont-challenge-mccain/469156/47 "2008-10-23T20:55:51Z")
> [@Omegaman](#): > > John Wayne for President. Has a nice ring to it. He would have had to take a huge cut in pay and I can just hear him saying, “What? Leave show business?” ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enemies-wont-challenge-mccain/469156/48 "2008-10-23T21:05:33Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > Given that he’s been dead for a good while now, I see no evidence that this is a negative. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enemies-wont-challenge-mccain/469156/49 "2008-10-23T21:10:34Z")
John Wayne, Undead Actor President. Of course, we’d have to immediately attack his military record. The man made a lot of war movies, but there’s some talk that he did everything he could to stay out of the big one. ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enemies-wont-challenge-mccain/469156/50 "2008-10-23T21:26:50Z")
He was also anti-pilgrim. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enemies-wont-challenge-mccain/469156/51 "2008-10-23T23:03:03Z")
[And had a penchant for world domination.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049092/)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enemies-wont-challenge-mccain/469156/52 "2008-10-24T00:11:33Z")
> [@stolichnaya](#): > > He was also anti-pilgrim. Yeah. I was on board until I found out about his anitpilgrimitism. How can his supporters condone that kind of talk at the rallys? ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enemies-wont-challenge-mccain/469156/53 "2008-10-24T00:18:19Z")
Hell, no, our enemies woudn’t challenge McCain. You know why? ‘Cause that man is just a stone-cold motherfucker, that’s why. He’s like fuckin’ Keyser Soze–McCain would [kill his own grandmother](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/23/gop-strategist-on-palins_n_137226.html), he’s just that cold. No _WAY_ would any of our enemies fuck with that. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enemies-wont-challenge-mccain/469156/54 "2008-10-24T00:34:52Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > No _WAY_ would any of our enemies fuck with that. Certainly not the batshit insane group that actually _wants_ to die fighting against us! Nosireebob, once they learn that McCain might kill them, they’ll scamper off into some quiet corner somewhere and give up on that silly idea of Martyrdom. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enemies-wont-challenge-mccain/469156.md?page=2)