Beer: the new third rail of American politics

Disclaimer: I found this gaffe as hilarious as anyone else

From Paul:

Remember the right wing going nuts over Howard Deans’ laryngitis? Is that really all that’s needed to derail a candidate in a nation election - a moment out of context that looks or sounds weird from the right angle, but has no bearing on policy whatsoever?  Pretty stupid criticism of a candidate, wasn’t it, but they got real political mileage out of it.  Which doesn’t say much for the voters, I’m afraid, if a discussion of crucial policy debates can be derailed by ten seconds of video in which a candidate’s voice broke while cheering on his campaign workers. 

Of course there are substantive things to criticize McCain for, like his admittedly shaky grasp of economics, his even more tenuous understanding of constitutional law, his deliberate attraction to whacky religious leaders who make Rev. Wright look like Robert Schuller, his unrepentant jingoism, or the fact that he doesn’t know a Shiite from a Sunni from his ejection shute.  But why bother?  We have him vetoing beer.

Hah!  He tried to cover it up a moment later by switching to “bill with earmarks” but he’s a closet prohibitionist!  He’ll take away our BEER!!!

(By the way, senator McCain, since you like vetoes you might be interested to know that President Clinton vetoed 63 spending bills and all but 13 of the vetoes stood up to challenge.  Until just recently Bush never vetoed anything until he started vetoing for ideological reasons.  And you, senator, voted with Mr. Bush 100% of the time last year.  So knock off all that guff about how you’re going to change Washington; you won’t.)

 

Posted by George on 06/15/08 at 01:12 PM
Politics •

  1. We must oppose with all our might the McCain threat to our sacred American way of life!

    Posted by Paul Sunstone  on  06/16/08  at  04:53 AM

  2. That’s not even well done. McCain surely won’t be vetoing what makes his family money - beer.

    Posted by smarter but not older  on  06/19/08  at  04:07 PM

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