Jesse Taylor has a very amusing list of further damage John McCain can do to the Republican party, over at Pandagon.
Reading the hang wringing, and moaning of various Republican pundits, and that ever sensitive Newt, this may have been a part of the plan, all along. Reduce the Republican Party to the least educated, poorest, most ill informed of our citizens and then blame it all on McCain. Poor John, he was never well liked by the Party poobahs. Now they intend to destroy him by lining his campaign with the very people instructed to give him really bad advise.
Jesse Taylor lends a hand.
Thursday, October 16th: After a third meandering debate performance, McCain declares his intention to change his name to Leroy Washington and make himself that he’s the real black candidate in this race.
Saturday, October 18th: McCain blames Lindsey Graham for Thursday’s rumor, subsequently announces his intention to remain wholly white. Graham continues to smile robotically.
Sunday, October 19th: In an appearance on This Week, after news of Obama’s tour of heavily minority urban areas, McCain re-announces his intention to become super-black and makes George Stephanopoulos’ head explode. "White people be all crazy, my friends," he announces to a rally in Boca Raton.
Tuesday, October 21st: McCain announces his intention to pull his campaign out of Texas.
Friday, October 24th: When asked why he’s still running under the name John McCain and does not appear to have made any substantive changes in racial identification, John McCain declares that he’s solved prejudice.
Thursday, October 30th: After nearly a week of media and campaign silence, John McCain launches a last-ditch effort to bring relevancy back to his campaign by marrying David Petraeus in a civil ceremony in Connecticut.
Friday, October 31st: Finally catching up to the events of the past two weeks, Sarah Palin tells Tom Brokaw that "being white is really, really great. What? What? For the, you know, race and such things that I would never purposefully, I think, make people feel worse or more negative for such a type of...you know? Really, yeah. Fuck, this is gonna be on Saturday Night Live tomorrow."
Monday, November 3rd: On the cusp of a historic electoral landslide that may net Obama over 400 electoral votes and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, John McCain puts an authentic bamboo cage in the back of the Straight Talk Express and hands out cupcakes to an appalled press corps.
Mr. Taylor, kindly leaves John's weekends free for B-B-Cues, naps, and facial rejunivations.
As Andrew Sullivan writes, it just doesn't matter, "Because they have to encounter the reality of Obama, shown in moments like these:"
"The far right Republicans do not seem to live in the real world. Obama's a nice guy: a calm, nice, regular guy. He's good at what he does. Americans see that. And the more they see him, the clearer it is. And the more counter-productive the bile directed against him."
But that is not what the world is seeing. Look at this video that appeared on Al Jeezers.
Nice going, Peckerheads! Spread your hate and rank stupidity all over the world...
This is the current "base" of the modern Republican Party.