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Posts Tagged ‘mike murphy’

Mike Murphy On Slow Boat To China

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Avoid the uncooked meats!Once upon a time when people played poker and they came across somebody who lost very large and predictable amounts at the table, other players would say, “I’d like to get you on a slow boat to China,” so that this loser could continue to shed large amounts of cash for a long period of time. You see how this all relates to the prolonged and expensive death of the McCain campaign? Good. MORE »


Mark McKinnon’s Mournful Ode To John McCain’s Terrible Campaign

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Still. Can't. Quit. You.Mark McKinnon is the saddest of sad Republicans in all the sad land. This weekend he sadly penned a column for Tina Brown’s Toothsome Amphigory Concerning Certain Swamp Monsters about how his old friend John McCain was forced, by the economy, to run a mean campaign about nothing. Also, John McCain is Seabiscuit and Barack Obama is Secretariat. That means Obama, like FDR, will win the “Triple Crown” of the Presidency (i.e. polio). MORE »


Peggy Noonan Caught On Live Mic After Her Three-Highball Breakfast

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Oh merciless heavens! Peggington Noonanshire MCMLXVII, our the veritable erudite PRINCESS OF WORDSMITHERY, was captured on a dastardly “hot microphone” giving voice to such uncouth sayingisms as “bullshit,” about Caribou Barbie Sarah Palin! How dare she traipse about in those sullied word-knickers! [TPM]


Mike Murphy Throws Straight Talk Express Under The Bus

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Would you hit it?Mike Murphy is this Republican guy with crazy hair like Bozo the Clown would have, if Bozo the Clown had very fine straight hair and wasn’t dead. Whenever Mike Murphy shows up on Meet the Press he is wearing some ridiculous plaid jacket and talking actual sense about Republicans, which is unusual. Naturally, he will not be joining the McCain campaign. MORE »