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McCain’s Campaign Chief Admits GOP Is ‘Extinct’


To be fair, he didn’t say the Republican Party was dead in the South. So, they’ve still got that going for them …. [YouTube]


11:08 AM on Mon April 27 2009
By Ken Layne
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  1. BigDupa says at 11:13 am, April 27th, 2009

    So goes the old, wrinkled dicks; so goes the GOP. Who will be their version of Viagra/Cialis?

  2. snideinplainsight says at 11:13 am, April 27th, 2009

    What about Meghand McCain? SHE’s not X-tinct!

  3. Jerk Cade says at 11:16 am, April 27th, 2009

    Couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of guys!

  4. ForTheTurnstiles says at 11:17 am, April 27th, 2009

    The nutters will rise again. Like zombies, you can’t keep the fuckers down.

  5. thefrontpage says at 11:17 am, April 27th, 2009

    In all reality, the GOP was actually extinct, on hundres of levels, about 1965 or thereabouts. It’s never really been in sync with about 95 percent of the population of the planet.

  6. finland says at 11:17 am, April 27th, 2009

    but then again, what has steve schmidt ever gotten right?

  7. V572625694 says at 11:19 am, April 27th, 2009

    Jeebus Christ, Matalin looks more and more like Carville in a wig every day. Scary!

  8. One Yield Regular says at 11:19 am, April 27th, 2009

    Huh-huh. Huh. He thaid ‘thrinking entithy,’ Beavith. Huh. Huh-uh-uh.

  9. ManchuCandidate says at 11:21 am, April 27th, 2009

    BigDupa:
    I think Boner pills aren’t enough. Sarah Palin’s getting older and is not the correct sex. I’m guessing the Greek God Priapus. He fits. Every statue of him has a boner and he likes it “Greek” Style.

    As for the clip. No shit. Have you seen the Freeper Convention photos? All fat and/or old and white. Not exactly a healthy demo for the GOP to lean on.

  10. Custerwolf says at 11:22 am, April 27th, 2009

    This is pure sensationalism. You cannot say that the GOP is extinct when we all know there are billions - dare I say TRILLIONS - of viable republican sperm floating around in the anuses of unsuspecting young men everywhere. These can be harvested, people, c’mon!!!

  11. tootsieroll says at 11:23 am, April 27th, 2009

    I was actually watching this with my sister-in-law and her husband yesterday. I forgot exactly what Schmidt said at whatever point, but I commented, “But they don’t want the BROWN people..” and she LOL’d. Reading Wonkette has really enlarged my capacity for wit.

  12. hobospacejunkie says at 11:25 am, April 27th, 2009

    Steve Schmidt: if your lookin’ for a j-o-b in the G-O-P, Yur Doin It Rong.

  13. KilgoreTrout_XL says at 11:26 am, April 27th, 2009

    Shush, Steve.

    It’s more fun when they think they’re a majority.

  14. V572625694 says at 11:27 am, April 27th, 2009

    hobospacejunkie: Ha! Ha! Ha!

  15. randomsausage says at 11:28 am, April 27th, 2009

    Wait, they’ll always have Alaska!

  16. SayItWithWookies says at 11:28 am, April 27th, 2009

    Attention Governors Perry and Sanford: NO, you cannot have federal money to protect Republicans, no matter how much you suddenly believe the Endangered Species Act is an essential piece of legislation.

  17. Come here a minute says at 11:29 am, April 27th, 2009

    The part where they cut back to Matalin and she’s dabbing her eyes with a tissue looks and sounds like a scene from The Birds.

  18. By classifying them as extinct, does this mean that they did indeed walk the earth with the dinosaurs 6,000 years ago?

    I think endangered is a much better classification. And there is nothing an NRA member likes more than shootin’ dead an engangered species and hangin’ it up as a trophy in the livingroom. My personal favorite is of course the elephant-foot wastepaper basket.

  19. danadevin85 says at 11:31 am, April 27th, 2009

    Well now we know who won’t be at the GOP Christmas part this year

  20. danadevin85 says at 11:32 am, April 27th, 2009

    meant to say Christmas party

  21. forgracie says at 11:33 am, April 27th, 2009

    “And I helped.”

  22. Mr Blifil says at 11:35 am, April 27th, 2009

    Extinctions have consequences.

  23. The Cold Sea says at 11:37 am, April 27th, 2009

    Shrinking entity pretty well sums up the Republicans and their members.

  24. Custerwolf says at 11:39 am, April 27th, 2009

    The sex has got to be pretty incredible between those two (Carville and Matalin) for them to be able to withstand the shock of looking at each other and listening to each other every single goddamned day.

  25. PrairiePossum says at 11:40 am, April 27th, 2009

    Maybe they were swallowed up by the rapture. Praise Jeebus.

  26. Woodwards Friend says at 11:40 am, April 27th, 2009

    Excuse me but why does the LIBERAL MEDIA continue to ignore McCain’s landslide win in Oklahoma?

  27. sarcasticusername says at 11:45 am, April 27th, 2009

    who cares about the creepy bald guy, who can barely fit in his chair? omg david plouffe! that’s all.

  28. Mr Blifil says at 11:45 am, April 27th, 2009

    Custerwolf: True dat. Matalin must be super hung.

  29. Johnny Zhivago says at 11:58 am, April 27th, 2009

    It’s even worse. The Swine Flu vaccine is in a safe under Obama’s desk. He will only give it to top officials who swear a loyalty oath.

    What’s left is being distributed to Acorn stormtroopers, who will launch a new registration drive - and sorry, no vaccine if you check off “Republican”.

  30. They’re not only alive and well in the South, they’re working hard to make it possible to carry concealed 24/7.

    So be afraid, people. Be very afraid.

  31. randomsausage says at 12:04 pm, April 27th, 2009

    I wish the South would just fuck off. Apart from the two cute Dixie Chics, natch.

  32. DustBowlBlues says at 12:07 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Woodwards Friend: For fuck’s sake, will you people quit saying that? Everyone, repeat after me: Oklahoma’s name is going to be changed to “Flaminglipstan.” You think I want fat old white Repubtard teabagging refugees flooding Oklahoma? We obviously have enough of them as it is.

  33. Texan Bulldoggette says at 12:11 pm, April 27th, 2009

    I like how my boyfriend, David Plouffe, (who no longer emails me now that he’s gotten what he’s wanted…sob) tries not to smirk at Baldy.

  34. DustBowlBlues says at 12:15 pm, April 27th, 2009

    randomsausage: It pains me to know that the US would be better off if a group of states formed Fuckistan. The pain is in knowing a live in it.

  35. norbizness says at 12:37 pm, April 27th, 2009

    I like his “attract one Log Cabin Republican for every 100 Bible-thumpers you alienate by supporting gay marriage” approach to GOP revitalization.

  36. SayItWithWookies says at 12:45 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Mr Blifil: The secret to the success of their marriage is that once they wake up with each other they know nothing worse is going to happen to them the rest of the day.

  37. DustBowlBlues says at 12:47 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Texan Bulldoggette: I know how you feel but if it helps any, David was two-timing us. He’s stopped emailing me, as well. Thank god my Nigerian boyfriend hasn’t dumped me.

  38. bitchincamaro says at 12:56 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Maybe they’ve got a chance to resurrect it by joining this new southern movement:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/us/27atheist.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

  39. Bearbloke says at 1:02 pm, April 27th, 2009

    ‘Extinct’? Hardly - they’re merely brain-damaged… but now’s the time to stock up on wooden stakes!

  40. SpikeyDog says at 1:18 pm, April 27th, 2009

    They won’t be extinct until we get rid of every strand of DNA they have. A dinosaur may be able to be brought back to life.

  41. norbizness: That’s really the sad part. Although the whole “hate the gheys” thing is repulsive and awful to me, fixing it would net them what, a hundred votes nationally? It seems like most people secure enough to be openly gay are also sane enough to realize that the rest of the Republican platform is bullshit. And if the GOP changed, their base would be a little less, well, frothy.

    The Republicans (as in the actual party leadership) just can’t win at this point. If they keep their current platform, they’ll have about a decade of screaming irrelevance before they die completely, probably. And if they change their platform, they will die much, much faster. Like, tomorrow.

  42. TeddyS says at 1:30 pm, April 27th, 2009

    New Republican Strategy: First, in 2010, get somebody elected to something in South Carolina. Second, build from there.

  43. hobospacejunkie says at 2:18 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Ha! The GOP is not extinct. I’m told by insiders it still stinks to high heaven!

    Thank you, I’m here all week.

    Try the vegan veal & be sure to tip your waitresses. No touching please.

  44. problemwithcaring says at 2:24 pm, April 27th, 2009

    finland: Right. I will believe it when Mark Penn spots it as a trend.

  45. arclight says at 2:27 pm, April 27th, 2009

    To be perfectly honest, if you’re going to be temporarily extinct, seven months after getting pounded in the ass in a Presidential election and still 18 months away from the next mid-term is a perfect time to be. Just wait…in 12 months or so, they’re going to come up with something. Granted, it’ll be something retarded, but it’s going to work on some sheeple. The question is, will it work on enough sheeple to get them within striking distance of winning (or stealing) a few races, or not?

  46. Johnny Zhivago: I call plagiarism. There is no way that this comment isn’t written verbatim on Red State, with certain spelling changes: “Acron” “vaksine” “NObama” and god knows how they spelled “distributed”.

  47. Custerwolf: Gaaaahhhhhh!!!!

  48. heathenish says at 3:43 pm, April 27th, 2009

    whoohoo!! can we declare a national day of celebration or something?except I do worry about the zombi factor.

  49. pat robertsons personal trainer says at 6:03 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Custerwolf: or, much more likely, neither one of them believes a word what the other (and/or they themselves) say. and they’re both sorry ass bags of dicks.

  50. June Cleaver 2.0 says at 6:47 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Zadig: And that was basically McCain’s problem. If he had chosen someone like Tom Ridge (whom I prayed to God he didn’t pick) his base would say no; he had to pick someone like who he did pick, and ran away the last few thinking Republicans and generally indepenedent reasonable people. I don’t see how they can solve their problem without morphing into a party quite different from the existing party.

    And I’m enjoying watching how they fix it. As Steele would say, you reap what you sow, baby!

  51. WABishop says at 7:01 pm, April 27th, 2009

    Mr Blifil: Who will keep the population of Democrats in check with the demise of their principal predator?

  52. hobospacejunkie says at 7:31 pm, April 27th, 2009

    WABishop: See Johnson, Lyndon B., for more information on this puzzling conundrum.

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