• May 26, 2012

McCain Campaign Very Creatively Plays Gender Card

by Jim Newell  

Today in the exciting world of horse race politics: Obama lawyer tries to sneak into McCain lawyer conference call, gets rejected, is called sexist — and obvious political motives glue each development together! Jesus, this must be “Friday Night At The Movies” for Mark Halperin ‘n’ pals.

Barack Obama is still dealing with criticism for breaking his “pledge” to accept public financing in the general election. And of course that’s fair. It was a moronic “pledge,” or at least very strong statement, to make in the first place, and the reasons he’s offered for choosing private financing — principally that conservative 527s will raise trillions to Swift Boat him, when in reality they have little desire to fight for Liberal John McCain — are, well, “flimsy.” But hellllllllls yeah it was the right choice to make! He’ll now raise $300 million and run in every state, and within three days no one will care about him “breaking his word” except Robert Novak, Lanny Davis, and possibly John McCain.

But Obama must shut them up as much as he can, so his campaign asked McCain’s campaign if its counsel, Bob Bauer, could participate in a conference call with McCain’s counsel, Trevor Potter, to at least pretend that the two camps have been negotiating re: finance.

THE GENERAL ELECTION HAS BEEN VERY EXCITING SO FAR.

Not only did the McCain campaign reject the request, but it called on lady communications director Jill Hazelbaker to denounce them all as Sexist:

“This type of boys club bullying embodies an arrogance better suited for a frat house than a serious campaign about serious issues,” she says.

There is too much irony in that sentence to break down, and it’s Friday afternoon. Now we will watch old YouTubes of Republican primary debates and eat our way through mourning the Death of Fun.

Obama camp tries to get in on McCain finance conference call [Jonathan Martin]

{ 28 comments }

Doglessliberal June 20, 2008 at 4:19 pm

huh, what a cunt. Probably wears too much makeup.

AxmxZ June 20, 2008 at 4:19 pm

The day is not far off when McCain calls Barry a sexist directly for opposing him on some issue, and everyone will laugh and laugh.

SuperRounder June 20, 2008 at 4:21 pm

WALNUTS! can afford a campaign lawyer and a communcations director? The price of Geritol and Prune Juice must have gone down.

ZombieRaegan June 20, 2008 at 4:24 pm

Calling someone an “ageist” just doesn’t have the right cachee.

Well, at least McC*nt didn’t ask his mom to call Obama names.

Doglessliberal June 20, 2008 at 4:24 pm

[re=21388]AxmxZ[/re]: The debates between them are going to be very interesting. You have to wonder if WALNUTS! will lose it at some point and just blow up.

Doglessliberal June 20, 2008 at 4:25 pm

And Jim, I look at the picture with this post, and I have a strange urge to buy Time-Life books.

Inadequate Blackmail June 20, 2008 at 4:32 pm

You know the best thing about this race? These guys hate each other. Thank God we won’t be seeing any more of that chummy “No, after you” style bipartisan asshattery in this election.

obfuscator June 20, 2008 at 4:37 pm

[re=21388]AxmxZ[/re]:

3rd debate. McCain is getting outraised/outspent 3 to 1 & he’s losing ground in the polls, especially among the independents that are a must have if he is to win in November.

Barry: “I just don’t believe that Senator McCain’s plan for Iraq represents anything more than the flawed Bush/Cheney policies that have failed us for the past 5 years.”

Matthews: “Senator McCain, your response… ”

McCain: “Fuck you, friend! You’re a sexist race card playing trollop full of cunts! Gook! Nigger! FRIEND!”

Accordion-o-rama June 20, 2008 at 4:38 pm

The picture is inaccurate. The actual McCain conference center:

http://www.wchm-tx.org/3029.jpg

Gopherit v2.0 June 20, 2008 at 4:38 pm

[re=21387]Doglessliberal[/re]: She’s only a cunt if McCain is sleeping with her. Or if she won’t sleep with him. PRetty simple really.

And she probably puts it on with a trowel.

Doglessliberal June 20, 2008 at 4:46 pm

[re=21418]Gopherit v2.0[/re]: ah, OK, I need to get the rules right.

Gopherit v2.0 June 20, 2008 at 4:51 pm

[re=21429]Doglessliberal[/re]: And check her out:
http://www.glamour.com/images/news/2007/12/near02_powerwomen.jpg

Blond, lithe, not as cunt-ish as some. If McCain’s not hitting it, it ain’t because of his morals.

jagorev June 20, 2008 at 4:58 pm

[re=21388]AxmxZ[/re]: To be fair, McCain is a giant vagina, so perhaps the accusations of sexism aren’t entirely off base.

Doglessliberal June 20, 2008 at 5:00 pm

[re=21452]jagorev[/re]: that is an insult to vaginas everywhere.

tunamelt June 20, 2008 at 5:13 pm

[re=21418]Gopherit v2.0[/re]: The joke goes, “What’s the difference between a slut and a cunt? A slut sleeps with everyone. A cunt sleeps with everyone except you.”

And, I read that joke in the Janice Dickinson autobiography.

RuperttheBear June 20, 2008 at 5:15 pm

[re=21452]jagorev[/re]: He has a neck vagina.

Wikipedia notes that Hazelnutcracker was in on the fraudulent attacks on Menedez in the 2006 New Jersey Goobernutorial race. Yay!

nhunter June 20, 2008 at 5:22 pm

[re=21396]Doglessliberal[/re]: Surely you kid. I’m running a sweep on which minute of the which debate McCain calls Obama a “fucking asshole.”

tunamelt June 20, 2008 at 5:31 pm

[re=21503]nhunter[/re]: Are these things time-delayed?

Cicada June 20, 2008 at 5:35 pm

Could you imagine if Hilz had won? It would be wall to wall lynching analogies by the whitest man on earth.

Woo-hoo. Methinks Wonkette will have a larger than usual buffet of idiocy to feast upon this campaign season.

SayItWithWookies June 20, 2008 at 6:24 pm

[re=21440]Gopherit v2.0[/re]: Wow. He is a one-type-of-woman man, isn’t he?

Mahousu June 20, 2008 at 8:51 pm

I am genuinely curious how they expect claims that Obama’s campaign is “bullying” them will help. It kind of undermines the whole “Obama’s not tough enough” business, doesn’t it?

The whole thing has an air of, “Yeah, Obama may be beating the crap out of us now, but you just wait until the Commies/Mooslims/terrorists show up! They’ll show him!”

AxmxZ June 20, 2008 at 9:01 pm

[re=21416]obfuscator[/re]: Or else he trips, Barry automatically extends a solicitous hand, and McCain bites him, leaving his dentures in his sleeve.

Bypartizoa June 20, 2008 at 9:52 pm

Well, now he has offended asshole fratboys. That pretty much kills the Republican vote.

masterdebater June 20, 2008 at 9:58 pm

“This type of boys club bullying embodies an arrogance…”
Where have I heard that before? Hillary, help me out here.

Borat June 21, 2008 at 8:48 am

As a lesbian trapped in straight man’s body, i find this whole line of discussion OFFENSIVE. FOR SHAME MCMANN

AngryBlakGuy June 21, 2008 at 9:56 am

…McCain’s entire campaign will go down in history as the biggest and most expensive EPIC FAIL ever! Actually maybe not, see below list of bigger and more expensive EPIC FAILS!:

-Iraq
-Trickle Down Economics
-The Big Dig
-George Bush’s birth and/or conception
-Iraq
-NAFTA
-Marc Penn
-Pepsi Clear
-The XFL(the failed football league, remember that?)
-oh yeah and IRAQ!!!

AngryBlakGuy June 21, 2008 at 10:02 am

…oh yeah, and WALNUTS! playing the sexism card only works when you are a WOMAN! Whats next, him claiming that Barry is trying to keep the black man down?!

josereyes.theroof June 21, 2008 at 8:46 pm

[re=21785]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: Barry does have the white man’s overbite, so his jaw, at least, is attempting to disguise his blackness.

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