# Letterman: "McCain looks like the kinda guy who..." **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 7, 2008, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489 "2008-05-07T22:35:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![focusonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@focusonz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/focusonz)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489/61 "2008-05-17T12:49:53Z")
He looks like that kind of guy who would walk out like Ophra Winfrey. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489/62 "2008-05-17T13:49:14Z")
He looks like an aged action star, like the guy who used to fight spacemen and underwater monsters in old movies, and who if you irritate him will say “Bring it, sonny.” and deck you like Buzz Aldrin did. He also looks like a turtle. He does! I can imagine the beak. Not a nice turtle either. ---
**Author:** ![focusonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@focusonz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/focusonz)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489/63 "2008-05-17T14:21:14Z")
He looks like that kind of guy who would cross the aisle and find common ground. No he has proved he is that guy. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489/64 "2008-05-17T14:48:38Z")
He looks like the kind of guy who maybe used to date Judy Garland back when they were both teenagers. ---
**Author:** ![focusonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@focusonz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/focusonz)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489/65 "2008-05-17T14:55:06Z")
He looks like the kind of guy that would enjoy bowling with the working people. ---
**Author:** ![focusonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@focusonz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/focusonz)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489/66 "2008-05-17T14:58:36Z")
He looks like the kind of guy that would eat Walleyed Pike with you after he gutted and cleaned it. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489/67 "2008-05-17T15:00:37Z")
He looks like the kind of guy who might break into a chant of “Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum!” ---
**Author:** ![focusonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@focusonz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/focusonz)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489/68 "2008-05-17T15:05:20Z")
He looks like the kind of guy that would go to California and not puke all over his constituency giving a dinner speech. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489/69 "2008-05-17T15:13:36Z")
He looks like the kind of guy who relates to the young people by telling them about his stamp collection. ---
**Author:** ![focusonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@focusonz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/focusonz)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489/70 "2008-05-17T15:27:18Z")
He looks like that kind of guy that would watch your back on a dark city street. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489/71 "2008-05-17T15:47:15Z")
[QUOTE=Love Rhombus] He looks like an aged action star, like the guy who used to fight spacemen and underwater monsters in old movies, and who if you irritate him will say “Bring it, sonny.” and deck you like Buzz Aldrin did. **He also looks like a turtle. He does! I can imagine the beak. Not a nice turtle either**. [/QUOTE] 😃😃 Yeah, it’s that lack of a neck giving him the look that he’s on the verge of retreating into his shell. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489/72 "2008-05-17T16:22:22Z")
[QUOTE=Love Rhombus] He also looks like a turtle. He does! I can imagine the beak. Not a nice turtle either. [/QUOTE] Yes, [McCain](http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/images/John%20McCain.jpg) is the [bad sort of turtle](http://www.rpparp.devisland.net/becky/images/yertle.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![focusonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@focusonz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/focusonz)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489/73 "2008-05-17T17:55:25Z")
He looks like the kind of guy that would know where the oval office is without being led by the hand. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489/74 "2008-05-17T18:00:36Z")
He looks like the kind of guy who would attract followers lacking a sense of humor. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489/75 "2008-05-17T18:41:23Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] Yes, [McCain](http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/images/John%20McCain.jpg) is the [bad sort of turtle](http://www.rpparp.devisland.net/becky/images/yertle.jpg). [/QUOTE] [Godwin!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yertle_the_Turtle) Godwin! Godwin! Yaaaaaaaah! Thbbt. He looks like my grandfather’s brother who didn’t quite make it _all_ the way back from the war. ---
**Author:** ![focusonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@focusonz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/focusonz)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489/76 "2008-05-17T18:50:21Z")
He looks like the kind of guy that would have to spend his first year in office meeting everybody for the first time again, not. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489/77 "2008-05-17T19:13:10Z")
You really want to play this game, **focusonz**? He looks like the kind of guy who would cheat on, and ultimately dump his wife if she got into a car accident and “lost her looks.” He looks like the kind of guy who doesn’t know the difference between Sunni and Shia. He looks like the kind of guy who would intervene on behalf of a racketeer in exchange for campaign contributions and sweetheart investment deals for his wife and father-in-law. He looks like the kind of guy who would call his wife a “cunt” in public. ---
**Author:** ![focusonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@focusonz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/focusonz)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489/78 "2008-05-19T12:07:55Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] You really want to play this game, **focusonz**? He looks like the kind of guy who would cheat on, and ultimately dump his wife if she got into a car accident and “lost her looks.” He looks like the kind of guy who doesn’t know the difference between Sunni and Shia. He looks like the kind of guy who would intervene on behalf of a racketeer in exchange for campaign contributions and sweetheart investment deals for his wife and father-in-law. He looks like the kind of guy who would call his wife a “cunt” in public. [/QUOTE] I don’t want to play the game you are playing. It is one thing to get comical relief from the ABC late night alternative to sexual relief from MAX. And it is completely another thing to characterature unrelentlessly a candidate for president of these United states one John Sidney McCain in the CS. The MOD’s thought it was OK. I joined in the fun and **I creatively turned the characterature on its head**. Which apparently some took as not laughable! The CS is for discussions related to arts, entertainment, and similar leisure activities. Discussions about political satire, so long it is about the satire, is acceptable. Discussions about politics is not, and belongs in Great Debates. The Moderators are the first to admit that the line is fuzzy, but there is a line. He looks like the kind of guy that would make sure to leave a tip even if it was just 10%. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489/79 "2008-05-19T12:15:04Z")
[QUOTE=focusonz] I don’t want to play the game you are playing. It is one thing to get comical relief from the ABC late night alternative to sexual relief from MAX. And it is completely another thing to characterature unrelentlessly a candidate for president of these United states one John Sidney McCain in the CS. The MOD’s thought it was OK. I joined in the fun and **I creatively turned the characterature on its head**. Which apparently some took as not laughable! [/QUOTE] You’re so creative. I like how you said a sentence that seemed out of character, and then put “not” at the end. That was creative. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489/80 "2008-05-19T13:32:18Z")
He looks like the kind of guy whose military service I respect and whose endurance as a POW leaves me in awe, but with whom I disagree on most current policy issues and for whom I would probably never vote. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-mccain-looks-like-the-kinda-guy-who/448489.md?page=5)