Are you posting from beyond the grave?
I don’t even think that Main Street is the most effective metaphor since Main Streets are usually business districts, not residential. I think something like Elm Street might be more appropo.
And Phoenix doesn’t even have a Main street, damnit. I wonder if Wasilla does?
I’m glad I’m not the only one that hates the “Wall Street/Main Street” metaphor.
Exactly! That’s the point. Main Street is where folk gather at the General Store and the Soda Shoppe to discuss these things!
Yes. In a slight deviation from the standard text, I am the chain-rattling Ghost of Presidential Elections (not quite) Past, here to warn you of your future should you not change your ways, America!
Hey, I think Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho would make a fine president.
Seeing as I don’t drink, I would be shit faced by the end of the debate, but even then I expect that I would be both more articulate and better informed than Palin.
Why do American insist on dumbing down politics, electing people with whom they would like to have a beer, rather than electing people with intelligence, knowledge and experience? One hopes that they would have learned from the debacles following their choice of Shrubbery, but now they are putting forth Palin, yet another vacuous ideologue, who appears to be even less suitable? It’s ne way to seek a leader. Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing (mutter, mutter mutter).
Now I’m thinking it would have been amuch more entertaining debate if each candidate had to do a shot if their opponent spoke a certain word. Maybe “change”. It’s important to know how candidates handle their liquor.
Joe Six Pack needs to be on the debate drinking bingo card somewhere. Although I think if you put “change” on there it might kill someone.
Not enough shots to cause someone to fail out of 5 colleges in a row, but it’d be enough for a ‘frat party’ night.
No way, man. It would be bad for the fetus! (I’m just assuming she’s pregnant again.)
Two things:
- That was vodka spit-take funny.
- Will you marry me?
Plan B, it’s not a bad thing to be a maverick. It’s a bad thing to say you are, just for votes, when you really are no such thing.
Finally, let’s talk drinking. Six shots? Six fucking shots? Hell, that’s not even a warm-up. I can drink a bottle of cheap Pinot and still finish a fifth of vodka or whiskey. I did it this past week and still made an 8:30 meeting with a new client. Pantywaists.
If I gave any of them more credit for awareness of popular culture, I’d expect them to avoid using that street because of the inevitable “Nightmare” connotations.
What Captain Carrot said. You don’t call yourself a maverick. Just like you don’t call yourself cool. Others decide that.
I’m not sure I heard “maverick” once in the debate tonight. Do you think maybe they figured out that it’s not working for them?
Not nearly as drunk as I’d be if I’d done a shot every time McCain said “My friends” tonight. Yikes!
Not sure I want my country governed according to Elm Street values.
[golf clap]
Nobody ever gets it when I say that. Bravo!
People keep using this word…
I do not think it means what they think it does.
I think that it’s hilarious that the Republican strategy is to try to convince voters that the Republican nominee repeatedly and consistently goes AGAINST the Republican party. Therefore, you should vote for the anti-Republican, but NOT the Democrat! It’s almost like a third party candidate strategy.
Anyway, the drinking game I devised for future Palin interviews/debates/press conferences is: take the transcript from the event, read Palin’s answers, and try to guess what question or topic she is supposed to be addressing. If you get it wrong, you do a double shot.