1. There was the gentleman in New Jersey who got shot in the knee and didn't even know it. He's in the hospital now, but he walked quite a distance to the cops who had to point it out to him. Ya, he was drunk.
2. There were the folks running the Amtrak commuter train in California, who ran it out of gas in the middle of nowhere. Everyone sat for two hours while the train folks ran down some go-juice.
3. There was the New York driving instructor who was found guilty of showing his privates to his female students, then claiming it was just loose shorts. Well, it kept happening over-and-over. Oh, and incidentally, the instructor was a former cop. I bet he made some interesting arrests in his day.
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But, no, despite all those qualified entrants, we're going to go with 2 even wackier guys:
This far-seeing campaign adviser for John McCain who suggested that what he should do is pick a vice presidential running mate whom no one had ever heard of - a gun-slinging frontier gal whose greatest claim to achievement might be her recipe for mooseburgers.
Well, to be totally honest, some people had heard of Sarah Palin, but there were lots of news people who didn't even know how to pronounce her name. Under the Birches, we have numerous informed friends, people who know politics, and when they heard the name Sarah Palin they said:
Who?
Where?
Why?
Huh?
So, let's make it a multiple award. John McCain himself should be on the Waco list. What the hell was he thinking?
So, it's McCain and friends. They have insulted the whole world, at least temporarily gone berserk, and may have doomed the Republican Party.
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I really don't get it - does he have no advisors? What demographic is she going to attract who she might sway from Obama? His gun-toting conservatives and snowmobiling supporters? Do they think Hilary supporters would vote for her just because she's a woman? That's fairly insulting to women if that's the case. There goes the whole inexperience argument of the Republicans.
This really is something very strange. I've watched those spokespeople for the McCain campaign trying to explain this, and it sounds like they're all making it up as they go along, or trying to stumble on some logical explanation.
The last person this obscure to be nominated was William Miller, by Goldwater, in 1964. That was one of the worst landslide losses ever.
I'm like Irene: I just don't get it.
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