‘Trust’ ? I think of trust in terms of ok to whom would I give a duplicate set of house
keys? In my opinion the question is who doesn’t ‘fear’ mcCain on any and every level
imaginable. These people are chameleons who lie for a living have subsequently little or
no actual character and as post-modern politicos are not more than one step above child
molester if not in many cases one and the same. McCain is presently a little-big monster
who soon if he’s elected will simply be a big monster, period. ‘Trust?’ In candor given
the times back then I’d give Benedict Arnold a duplicate set of house keys first. ‘Duck
& cover!’ Ditto Obama I don’t trust him of course, but I’d give him the keys before
mcCain, though there’s just a shade or two of difference. John needs a tan, Obama
doesn’t. So I’d give up the keys to the better looking I guess, or the least ugly. You
can’t say this race is a beauty contest.

Iraq is a bigger issue for the crowd at NR than any domestic issue like abortion is, and in that way they can compartmentalize a VP Lieberman.

I completely trust McCain that he will ruin this country in every aspect: economically, militarily, socio/culturally, etc.

“Iraq is a bigger issue for the crowd at NR than any domestic issue like abortion is, and in that way they can compartmentalize a VP Lieberman.” -obi juan ... No wonder Bill died. He came to repent
of Iraq - did they kill him? It’s in these very real terms one can consider the word
‘trust.’ I mean you have to invent a new vocabulary?!

Our beloved next President McCain probably already has all the visitors to TakiMag on a list divided between loyal real Americans and disloyal traitors.

Beloved Leader Bush is preparing to turn local police forces into local investigators for the government. The enabling laws are in place.

I expect Pat Buchanan will vote for McCain. The religious right are on-board. If McCain can get away with the lies he told the Veterans about his love and dedication to vets, he can get away with anything.

CBS is bringing Dan Bartlett on-board. Karl Rove will be calling the election early for McCain.

Republicans killed the Republic and Democrats killed democracy. Go figure.

Trust Senator McCain? Surely, this must be some kind of satire. McCain hails from the never-never land of political confusion that spawned the Sagebrush Rebellion. The bloviating apparatchiks of this particularly loud sector of the Washington Bunko Parlor have exploited government antipathy while jumping nimbly into the growth of our degenerate, corrupt and louche Potomac Racket with both feet. They continuously talk about government malfeasance while bathing in the precise effluent they deride. These “rebellious “ types consistently hail from the West and South where milking the government dole is liken unto a religion. I suppose that the only place that quixotically has loved government more than Utah, one of the pillars of the High Holy Sagebrush Rebellion is perhaps the Third Reich on the evening of Kristallnacht. This , of course, despite the fact that Government appropriated the majority of their land and, just to make sure to underscore the point, occupied the city and trained Federal Canons on the capitol because the Federal Government thought the natives a tad too independent. In Afghanistan, this kind of act would result in 15 generations of bitter insurgency but in compliant Utah, they voted for Statehood. Once Democrat, the Utahns switched to Republicanism, much like the States of the Confederacy when it was decided that the GOP was to be the Party of Big Government.

Americans, and in particular, the current idiotic incarnation of the GOP must find this elaborate ruse somehow alluring because McCain is one of our choices for President and nobody should be at all surprised by the fact that he will say one thing and do another while kanoodling with the Bureaucrat’s Bureaucrat Mr. Lieberman.

However, the real charm of this arrangement is the kind of bait and switch it involves. Mr. Lieberman of course represents a particularly confused public from a state that nears the bottom of the list in amount of Government funding received. In fact, the relationship is near inverse. They pay vast sums in taxes and get virtually nothing in return for it aside from the public assistance that drains into the swamps of Bridgeport and Hartford where non-profit agencies and governmental entities comprise the majority of local employment. One supposes it is considered protection money well spent by the happy motoring suburbanites.

Trusting ANYONE who has spent any time in government in Washington D.C.  is like trusting a Bowery Drunk to invest the fruits of his pan handling in a 401k Plan. One would not even think of suggesting it with a drunk. So why do we pretend to trust the sanctimonious pickpockets and flim-flammers of Washington? The word “hope” appears somehow deficient and , to be frank, decidedly comic.

Instead of voting come this November 8, I suggest that you might get right to the point and approach the mirror on your medicine cabinet first thing in the morning and after your eyes focus and you scratch your ass to confirm you are still alive, give yourself a nice brisk roundhouse punch to the middle of your face. As the blood drains from your nose, imagine it as all those wonderful promises that pour forth from the Congressional Record and State’s of the Union Addresses like the Mississippi River at flood stage. Then, in an act similar to wearing those happy little stickers that announce “I Voted”, pack your bloody nostrils with kleenex and venture out to greet the new halcyon day that is sure to come as a result of voting one batch of rascals out so that another one can resume the plunder. This is called American Democracy in Action and somebody once said: “it’s better than a poke in the nose but not much”.

You Tube miraculously appeared just in time to record the full flower of a Culture in Pitched and Lubricated Decline because nobody will believe it afterwards.

Ah Mr Sabin, I am humbled by your cynicism. It makes me feel like a optimist.

Before Lincoln the biggest champions of freedom were the slave drivers. Today the biggest Washington big government haters are the welfare queens of the South and West. You forget the rugged individualist real-men true American sissy nancy boys in Alaska who hate taxes and love the government giveaways and welfare checks. Sen Stevens will be back next year whining and throwing temper tantrums to make sure they keep getting their pablum.

I trust McCain to slit the throats of the Republican party in general and the conservative movement specifically.

Cynical?
Whoever McCain talks to last , before any public announcement appears to be the Expert of the Day and so I fondly hope that the many connivers surrounding the candidate make sure Jomentum Lieberman speaks to him as he surmounts the press conference podium and the Candidate “stuns” the Zombie Cannibal GOP by declaring smiling Joe as the veep. This shall provide a fitting denouement to the demise of the GOP.

But then, there remains the question of what to do with the GOP-Lite, our treasured co-dependents of the Democrat Party....an institution that is the only thing standing between the GOP and the award for most ridiculous and abjectly destructive institution in the USA.

All cynicism aside but I would be as happy as a schoolgirl at a Justin Timberlake autograph party if Obama picks Biden and McCain picks Lieberman and we can call this final race into perdition:
“Spare Change 08”

I don’t think Mr. Sabin is too cynical, I think that he is perfect within the current
context. Perfection can only occur within a given context in the imperfect world. On another
of Tom Piatak’s threads in response to his ‘Export Blues’ paragraph, I also agreed with Mr. Sabin
and added today it is difficult not to write satire. I would like to amend that to it is today
*impossible not to write satire. The world itself, always gets to skate because after all
imperfect’s perfect or it is what it is. For us though at the human level in the imperfect
world it’s a world of degrees of difference. If the fed taxpool is the root of all evil
as its own given and/or corrupting influence; and over the course of the almost 100 years of
its burgeoning existence, folks were yet preserved at the start in their initial goodness
and/or innocence, he’s correct we’ve ‘progressed’ or descended until today it is a party
of animals from hell dancing around the loot. Where are even the cartoonists in the
occupied press or media? Where has our culture vanished -------

Actually, the correct way to put it is that we live in an age in which satire is impossible.  I have never been able to find out who first penned that phrase.

Thus, if McCain picks Joe Lieberman as his running mate, after I pick myself up off the floor on which I collapsed laughing, I will shake my head and say, “We live in an age in which satire is impossible.”

McCain’s ex trusted him until she had an accident and she became four inches shorter.
Then she knew the real man. Can you trust a guy without committment? This is a fair
weather friend. How can you trust a guy like that?