Wonkette
We were so excited about the MCCAIN NATION, and yet our very first request to attend a McCain party was stone cold rejected. The Straight Talk Express minces no words when it comes to telling its fans a particular event has reached capacity! A similar email from the Obama campaign would have had the subject line, “Barack Obama Wants To Meet With You In Person And Make Out With You,” and then a big long paragraph about how great you look in that outfit, and then a request for money, and then at the end one very quick sentence: “By the way please try to come to a different event, because this one is full.”
The capacity for this event must have been two (John and Cindy?) Someone’s gonna wait in line to hear Matlock crab about Obama’s great press? Yeah, right.
What was the crowd capacity for that room? Three?
Anita Cocktail: Jinx! You owe me a Coke! Or some coke! Where’s Cindy?
Only so many seats for the Puppet Show.
Realistically, only about 10-12 people can cram in to the cheese aisle at a time…
Well, he didn’t want to allow too many people into one event: That would make him a Nazi.
Don’t knock over the applesauce! Ooops. Clean up in Aisle Three!
Only so many people can fit in a room when they have hoods on their heads and have a big cross and gasoline in the room as well. It’s a logistics thing.
Sarah, don’t take the rejection personally. The campaign only has a little bit of room for supporters, what with the massive press corps following McCain around….
loquaciousmusic: Those airport bathroom stalls just aren’t big enough.
For some reason McCain makes me SOOOOO gay. Something about a sausage fest in a tight space.
Pop Socket:
Larry Craig didn’t have a problem packing ‘em in.
Where is this event, anyway? I want to drop by the venue to see if Mitt Romney is working the velvet rope out front. “You’re cool… you’re cool… turn around, Mr. No-Flag Pin… you’re cool…”
Imagine42: Ben Stein: making the world safe for Ben Stein.
Larry McAwful:
Mittens HAS to wear his blue proctological exam gloves. SNAP!
A campaign that didn’t have hardening of the arteries would find a bigger venue so they wouldn’t have to turn anyone away.
…silly commentors, didnt you all know that geriatric homes have limits as to how many visitors can visit at the same time?!
Is there a community name/email we can all use to look for events on McCain’s super awesome interwebs site? I wanted to search for one near me (mostly to see if there are indeed that many morons living in my vicinity), but I really don’t want to give them my actual email address.
Well, within 100 miles of my suburban DC Maryland zip code, there is exactly one event listed with McCain. Obama has 418. McCain supporters better get to work!!!
AngryBlakGuy: right, you don’t want to overstimulate the residents; they might keel over.
You fail to party with John McCain. No Dairy Delights for you!
Sara, ask to be put on a waiting list. 30% of the attendeeswill probably keel over and die before the event happens. When is it, Saturday?
Here’s a disguise to get you in: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/56/174915900_3a3e4753de.jpg
Send pictures.
Try doing the request from an address that doesn’t have “tips” or “wonkette” in it. I got an invite when I sent in my request from my “getoffmylawn.com” address.
This is a total auto-response. Nobody has wanted to join, and it’s just autoresponding that it’s full to make it seem like McCain has friends besides the New Hampshire reporter who went there on a dare.
That’s just some of his famous Straight Talk(tm). It’s exactly that type of bracing encouragement that’s going to get people to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, take a good look around — and vote for somebody else.
It’s too bad WALNUTS! event was full. I heard they were serving hot fruit.
DoctorCulturae: Ben Stein: Hyperbolic asshole.
NoWireHangers: and hot bottled water for all infants in attendance
Imagine42: Was Ben Stein funny once? I can’t remember anymore. Did he catch Dennis Miller Disease or something?
V572625694: We have to hope so, for his sake. Otherwise, his brain is really just deteriorating. Like Reagan. Or….um….well….McCain, actually….
S.Luggo: Ha! That isn’t just a “disguise” — it’s my everyday work uniform!
Gmail. nice.
S.Luggo: Dont send pics, just come to my place.
I wonder if the event was already full or if it was just sort of an internet, hehe, just kidding around here in cyberspace, sort of event. Like the McCain people are now hooked on the whole idea of this new, pretend world out there where they can all be 6 foot tall and 20 years old, and they’re busy making up events that don’t happen in real time.
Like, they’re not even trying to catch up to team Obama, first they have to catch up to team Ron Paul. I don’t know if that makes any sense, but it would explain it.
Sara K. Smith: Must Newell wear the same get up?
Another disguise option: http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/1/-/2/mccain_monica_moment.jpg
How does one meet crapacity?
irisheyes: geez, can’t you just go to gmail.com and get a fake email address like everybody else does?
Perhaps they were just unfamiliar with email invitations.. after all, people who attend McCain events have not advanced beyond telegrams.