(Previous Oopsapaloozas here.)
The unvetted centerpiece of a McCain stump speech, "Joe the Plumber" was nowhere to be found when McCain referenced him.
Instead, 4,000 schoolchildren bused in to bring the 2,000-person crowd up to 6,000 people got to pretend they too were unlicensed, tax-owing plumbers incapable of buying $250,000 plumbing businesses.
Quite possibly JTP at that moment was lining up a record deal and a special "America's crack problem" jeans line that reveals butt cleavage.
Palin continues to be a drag on the ticket--unless you're already a hardcore right-winger/religious right "values voter."
A Republican Secretary of State said of Palin, "Of course she's not ready". The "rogue," "whack job" (or is it "diva"?) Vice Presidential candidate blames her botched roll-out and poor media debut on McCain campaign aides while McCain staffers say they did the best they could with someone who has no knowledge of national or international issues.
It’s a grim binary choice, but apparently it came down to whether to make Palin look like a scripted robot or an unscripted ignoramus. I was told that Palin chafed at being defined by her discomfiting performances in the Couric, Charlie Gibson, and Sean Hannity interviews. She wanted to get back out there and do more. Well, if you’re Eskew and Wallace, what do you say to that? Your responsibility isn’t the care and feeding of Sarah Palin’s ego; it’s the furtherance of John McCain’s quest for the presidency.
The guy who said John McCain "invented the Blackberry" whiffled the ball by cancelling on a debate about Obama vs. McCain tech policy, but instead went on MSNBC. Apparently there was no one else qualified to represent the McCain campaign in the debate.
John McCain does the "monster mash"
Over the past 14 weeks, I've given you ample opportunity to see how erratic, wrong, gaffe-prone, poorly administered, hollowly-conceptualized, empty, dishonest, and hypocritical (and did I say wrong?) John McCain's misbegotten campaign for president has been.
Maybe it's only fitting that this, the LAST Oopsapalooza (ever, I hope), is on Halloween. We've had enough of scary monsters and superfreaks, to borrow a line from a Bowie song. The zombie McCain-Palin ticket, with their flatlining economic policies and cannibalistic social theories, need to be put down for once and for all.
There's no magic silver bullet required to do the job, no garlic necklace. Just your vote.
Vote hope, not fear.
America's best days are ahead of her. So long as we're all in it together, everyone pitching in what they can, we'll be fine.
Cynematic has does her best to ridicule these jokers out of the ballot box. There isn't enough Prozac in the world to try to laugh them out of the White House. Don't do that to me, 'kay?
She blogs at P i l l o w b o o k.
You had me at "America's Crack Problem."
Posted by: Donna | October 31, 2008 at 09:20 AM
Joe the Plumber was at the Sandusky, Ohio event later in the day. Apparently, someone finally tracked him down and plopped him on the bus ~ so he couldn't miss his next engagement!
Posted by: Margaret | October 31, 2008 at 09:53 AM
I can't understand how it's possible that McCain/Palin could even remotely win, yet the polls look so close. Please, please, PLEASE go vote as soon as you can, people! And by "people" I mean Obama supporters. McCain supporters are people too, but they should stay home and watch TV or something. :)
Posted by: Bill | October 31, 2008 at 10:10 AM