# Maricopa GOP shortsighted, idiotic, insane, censures John McCain **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 13, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626 "2014-01-13T01:32:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626/21 "2014-01-13T15:26:28Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > What’s so funny about that? It’s terrible and now she’s suffering quite a bit for it. Adolescents are chemically and biologically wired to take stupid risks and make bad decisions. It’s neither surprising or Dunn when they hurt themselves. Seriously? “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.” -Mel Brooks I take it you’ve never seen _Tosh.0_, which largely consists of people getting hurt doing even more idiotic things - many of whom appear on the show to share in the joke. If that girl wants to make money from people making fun of her she should send it in to Tosh. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626/22 "2014-01-13T16:07:59Z")
Wherein inquiring minds want to know: Is this, at long last, good news for John McCain? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626/23 "2014-01-13T16:35:19Z")
Probably bad. BUT, if he releases a video of himself jumping off a roof, he could turn this thing around. If he misses the pool, he can milk it for sympathy; and if he makes the jump successfully, he can establish that he’s a bad-ass. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626/24 "2014-01-13T17:08:12Z")
I’m sure there’s no dearth of footage of him falling on his ass in 2008. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626/25 "2014-01-13T17:50:58Z")
> [@boytyperanma](#): > > He only won with like 38 percent of the vote. 62 percent of Mainiyacs would have preferred a more liberal candidate, they just couldn’t agree on which one. Yep, much like the tea partiers are splitting the vote on their side. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626/26 "2014-01-13T17:53:41Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > What’s so funny about that? It’s terrible and now she’s suffering quite a bit for it. Adolescents are chemically and biologically wired to take stupid risks and make bad decisions. It’s neither surprising or Dunn when they hurt themselves. Yeah, alot of these videos don’t follow up with the injury report. I saw one where a guy jumped off a house to try to hit a medicine ball on his ass and flat-out missed. He was screaming in pain. I bet he broke his tail-bone and/or pelvis. Really awful injury, and incredibly stupid. Sorry to hijack again. Done. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626/27 "2014-01-13T18:07:54Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > Yep, much like the tea partiers are splitting the vote on their side. [Instant-runoff voting](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting) could solve that problem. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626/28 "2014-01-13T18:28:36Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Instant-runoff voting](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting) could solve that problem. Yep. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626/29 "2014-01-13T19:36:50Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > So go on. Call McCain a RINO. I’m betting he’ll have the good censure to disregard this. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626/30 "2014-01-13T20:36:40Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > Because the more you do The more you’re going to come running here to the pit to cry about it? > [@Acsenray](#): > > What’s so funny about that? That she broke her feet and had to go to the hospital and now has huge bills and she can’t work to pay her bills and she will probably be moving into a dumpster soon? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626/31 "2014-01-13T20:38:42Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Wherein inquiring minds want to know: Is this, at long last, good news for John McCain? It’s good news for his self-respect, if he has any. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626/32 "2014-01-13T22:48:29Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > It’s good news for his self-respect, if he has any. Did you _see_ his Presidental campaign? That ship sailed loooong ago. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626/33 "2014-01-14T00:12:59Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > What’s so funny about that? It’s terrible and now she’s suffering quite a bit for it. Adolescents are chemically and biologically wired to take stupid risks and make bad decisions. It’s neither surprising or Dunn when they hurt themselves. The funny part is not the stupid risk or bad decision making, tons of people do that around here, usually while drunk of their ass. The funny part is jumping of a roof and forgetting to jump, she missed a jump a five year old would have no trouble making. And sorry but yeah, watching people failing miserably at doing something stupid yet incredibly easy is terribly funny. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2014, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626/34 "2014-01-14T00:18:23Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > Did you _see_ his Presidental campaign? That ship sailed loooong ago. But he called us “my friends”…repeatedly! ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626/35 "2014-01-14T01:41:34Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > The funny part is not the stupid risk or bad decision making, tons of people do that around here, usually while drunk of their ass. The funny part is jumping of a roof and forgetting to jump, she missed a jump a five year old would have no trouble making. And sorry but yeah, watching people failing miserably at doing something stupid yet incredibly easy is terribly funny. Incredibly easy? A five-year-old could do? I think you might be underestimating that jump. It might not be particularly difficult in the broad world of jumps ever attempted, but I think it’s likely that a large percentage of people attempting such a jump would fail. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626/36 "2014-01-14T02:59:48Z")
I don’t know if it makes much of a difference. This is, I think, more of an attempt to pressure him than anything else, to swing more conservative for the rest of his term. And he might decide not to run again in 2 years. After all, he’ll be 79 and in office for 30 years. He might decide it’s time to retire. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626/37 "2014-01-14T03:26:41Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > I don’t know if it makes much of a difference. This is, I think, more of an attempt to pressure him than anything else, to swing more conservative for the rest of his term. And he might decide not to run again in 2 years. After all, he’ll be 79 and in office for 30 years. He might decide it’s time to retire. That is IMHO the most likely reason for the censorship, it is the equivalent of the [Treasure Island](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Spot_%28Treasure_Island%29)’s black spot letter among the pirates. You are out, either you leave or we will [del]make you walk the plank… Arrr[/del] depose you in the primaries with a real [del]Black Beard[/del] tea partier. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626/38 "2014-01-14T03:50:22Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > That is IMHO the most likely reason for the censorship, it is the equivalent of the [Treasure Island](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Spot_%28Treasure_Island%29)’s black spot letter among the pirates. You are out, either you leave or we will [del]make you walk the plank… Arrr[/del] depose you in the primaries with a real [del]Black Beard[/del] tea partier. To which the most measured and rational political response would be: Arrghhh, ye scurvy seadogs! Hard a **port** and hoist the Jolly Roger! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626/39 "2014-01-14T06:20:36Z")
R. R. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626/40 "2014-01-14T14:10:48Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > That is IMHO the most likely reason for the censorship \*censureship (if that’s a word at all) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maricopa-gop-shortsighted-idiotic-insane-censures-john-mccain/678626.md?page=3)