That’s possibly the silliest thing I’ve ever read. How malleable are you if dislike of someone else’s online personality causes you to vote or not vote for someone? Vote for the person who most agrees with your personal view of what the president should be doing. Don’t vote the opposite of Der Trihs because you think he’s obnoxious.
WHOOSH! 
Although I do admit my opinion of the Republicans have improved from the comments about them being so over the top, and I do like Bush better than I ever did just because people like Der Trihs get their knickers so much in a twist over him. And that’s NOT a Whoosh. 
Pffft…I’m going to have to have my head declared a no-fly zone…all the whooshing is losing me sleep from the noise…
That’s okay. What’s NOT a whoosh, though, is my concern about McCain’s age. I think 70s is too old for a president, especially starting out. I know that life is full of uncertainties, but really, I want a president who I can feel relatively certain will live though two terms.
Was he ever I-N?
I wonder who his four supporters are going to vote for.
What a dud that candidacy turned out to be. It started out with some energy but then just fizzled down to nothing.
It was all a big mixup in the first place. Thompson got delivered a script that Morgan Freeman was supposed to get, that featured a character who was an older presidential candidate. Poor guy thought it was an actual proposal for him to run for the GOP nomination. Major misunderstanding there…sad, really…
It didn’t really start with any energy. It started with about eighteen metric truckloads of hype and hope and starry-eyed wonder at a possible Second Reagan, come to rewrite the Gospel of the Republicans and lead them all to a shiny New Jerusalem where there’s free trade, patriarchal heterosexual Christians and buttloads of jingo.
Then Fred woke up as they were chanting his name, got out into the golf cart for the parade and promptly nodded off somewhere between the Mall and Dupont Circle.
Who’s going to break the news to** Sam Stone**?
So, now it’s down to five:
McCain
Romney
Huckabee
Giuliani
Paul
I think we can rule out Paul. So who has the best shot? I’m thinking Romney. McCain is just too old.
Wow, I should be, like, a psychic type.
-Joe
I am hoping for McCain, at least that will give me a palatable candidate from the Republicans. I think he still stands a decent chance.
Rudy might now be running for VP with the Big States.
Huckleberry will scare me until he is put away.
Romney is as bad as most Massachusetts politicians. I can’t stand the man. How do they do that? Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Tip O’Neil and now Romney all put the sleaze in sleazy politician.
His only function was to keep Huckabee from winning South Carolina. Mission accomplished, he may now bow out, assured of a spot in a McCain administration.
Is Fred now hoping for McCain’s VP slot?
Personally, I think he might have benefitted hugely from a Huckabee implosion had he stayed in.
I don’t think McCain should choose Thompson for his VP - the last thing his candidacy needs is another (and much more obviously) old guy. He might want to pick Huckabee for VP, partly to pacify the evangelicals, and partly because Huckabee is charming enough to be quite an asset as long as he keeps his mouth shut about policy.
Boy, that would be rich–the two candidates the GOP establishment hates the most*, paired off together!
*I’m not counting Paul, whom the GOP establishment refuses to acknowledge even exists
More likely another season on TV. He got a great career boost out of this half-assed campaign thing, if his agent takes proper advantage of it.