“I Wouldn’t Know”

2:52 pm EST January 12th, 2010 | News | 26 Comments

That’s John McCain’s response to questions about whether Sarah Palin was fully vetted.

I mean, not like the choice of the person a heartbeat from the presidency is important or anything.

Wow, did we dodge a bullet by not electing that incompetent.

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26 Responses to ““I Wouldn’t Know””

SaveFarris says:

January 12, 2010 at 2:59 pm

Was Geithner fully vetted?
Was Daschle?
Ws Killifer?
Was Sebellius?
Was Hilda Solis?
Was Van Jones?
Was Anita Dunn?

Glass houses, my friend.
merl says:

January 12, 2010 at 3:22 pm

well, crash mccain was a pretty damn good nva pilot.
were any of those people vp picks, my friend?
jr says:

January 12, 2010 at 3:27 pm

Cons think Palin’s qualified because she gives them a boner
Oliver Willis says:

January 12, 2010 at 3:27 pm

Yes, they were. Next silly distraction?
John Sullivan says:

January 12, 2010 at 3:41 pm

Hello again, Comrades! Farris, of course those on your list were vetted! They are all good Socialists! Our host calls your post a silly distraction. That’s his right. Some other people regard those on your list as threats to the American way of life. How can we not ask about silly things? We are the party of stupid, remember? Just keep in mind, farris, that we, as conservatives, are not as intelligent as our our fellow Americans on the left. They’re smarter than we are! Just ask them!
Southern Quaker says:

January 12, 2010 at 3:46 pm

You guys wouldn’t know a true socialist if one bit you in the arse.
Burn says:

January 12, 2010 at 3:55 pm

No, wait, I thought you teabagger brainiacs think Obama is a Muzlumm. No, wait, he’s a communist. No, wait, he’s not even a US Citizen. No, wait, he really hates Amurican and so does his Chicago gangster radical wife. No, wait, he’s just like Hitler because Hitler gave good speeches too.
John Sullivan says:

January 12, 2010 at 4:10 pm

Sure we would, SQ! All we have to do is turn on MSNBC and see them fawn all over the biggest one on the planet!
John Sullivan says:

January 12, 2010 at 4:13 pm

No, Burn, we’re just like you! He is everything! He is the Chosen One! He will cure all of our ills! He is the messiah! Thank God for BHO! Oh, how did we exist as a nation before he ascended to leadership?
Southern Quaker says:

January 12, 2010 at 4:17 pm

Thanks for proving my point.
fafaroo says:

January 12, 2010 at 4:22 pm

Some other people regard those on your list as threats to the American way of life … We are the party of stupid, remember?

Based on the first sentence I have to say, yes, John, yes you are.
John Sullivan says:

January 12, 2010 at 4:23 pm

Please, enlighten me, SQ, tell me, and the huddled unintelligent masses like myself, and most America while you’re at it. What is a “true’ socialist?
John Sullivan says:

January 12, 2010 at 4:25 pm

Thanks you for the compliment, farfaroo, Comming from such an intellectual giant like yourself, I find myself humbled..:)
fafaroo says:

January 12, 2010 at 4:28 pm

John, name the threats to America’s way of life on that list and explain exactly why they’re threats.
Rheinhard says:

January 12, 2010 at 4:36 pm

Yes, John’s straw man parody of the fantasy liberals in his head is totally different from the right’s reaction to Sarah Palin, the beautifulest mostest wonderful straight-shootin politician they’d like to fuck EVAR, critics of whom whole websites have been set up to destroy and “leperize“…

(Whoops looks like some of those snotty liberal Obamabots may be making shameful use of the laziness of the Red State Trike Farce there towards the end! But I’m sure super-conservative Eric son of Erick will show them all! WOLVERINES!)

I’m sure that all the characterization of !Sarah! as a dimwitted lazy emotionally unstable grifter is lies, damn lies!

Over the next few weeks she ‘crammed furiously’, using index cards for prompts.

However, according to the book, the vice presidential candidate’s mental state began to falter.

‘She wasn’t eating (a few small bites of steak a day, no more). She wasn’t drinking (maybe half a can of Diet Doctor Pepper, no water, ever). She wasn’t sleeping (not much more than a couple of hours a night, max),’ the authors write.

While being drilled for upcoming interviews, ‘she would routinely shut down – chin on her chest, arms folded, eyes cast to the floor, speechless and motionless, lost in what those around her described as a kind of catatonic stupor’.

The morning of her ill-fated CBS interview with Katie Couric, Ms Palin – ‘her eyes glassy and dead’ – was unresponsive to attempts to prep her as she was being made up.

‘As they were about to set off to meet Couric, Palin announced “I hate this makeup” -smearing it off her face, messing up her hair, complaining she looked fat,’ the book says.

According to the book, Mr Schmidt and Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign manager, arrived at Ms Palin’s hotel room in Philadelphia and ‘were appalled by the scene they found’.

‘The room was hot and claustrophobic; the shades were drawn. The place was full of half-eaten hotel food and stank of mouldering french fries.

‘Palin, looking dazed, was surrounded, as usual, by stacks and stacks of index cards.’

According to the book, the camp was ready to ‘downgrade’ vice presidential candidate Ms Palin’s responsibilities in the event of a victory, reducing her role ‘to the largely ceremonial role that pre-modern vice presidents inhabited.’
Burn says:

January 12, 2010 at 5:32 pm

Well it is nice to have a president who is intelligent, well spoken, thoughtful, articulate, and admired. You got me there.
Joey Doughnuts says:

January 12, 2010 at 6:27 pm

I’m just curious what Johnny means by “threat to the American way of life”. Can you maybe site something real and not just empty rhetoric? How has your way of life been threatened by the people you have cited? Please enlighten me (just make sure you properly give credit in your answer to Fox news). Please lay off the “!” a little unless you’re really that exited Johnny.
Zython says:

January 12, 2010 at 8:24 pm

Some other people regard those on your list as threats to the American way of life.

Well, if you consider gay bashing and lynching part of the “American way of life”, then I guess that makes sense.

We are the party of stupid, remember?

Well, when you decry higher education and intellect, it’s kinda hard to take it any other way.

and most America while you’re at it.

O rly?

Face it, John, your era is coming to a close. I admire your tenacity, but your ilk is still fading into irrelevance. You’ll be alot happier if you learn to simply accept it.
Matthew Hooper says:

January 12, 2010 at 10:10 pm

Not to disparage Obama in any way, but we didn’t have to dodge the bullet all that hard. There were a lot of things that were very, very, badly done for McCain’s campaign; even GWB knew it was in trouble from the onset. (I’ll have to find the link, but I remember an article that reported the Shrub’s dumbfounded astonishment upon hearing that McCain was having trouble getting a crowd to show up for him in Arizona.) McCain pretty much got the job of Republican candidate because It Was His Turn, much like Bob Dole and Kerry. He never seriously stood a chance of winning.
timmy says:

January 13, 2010 at 12:54 am

I like it.

From here on out, I shall refer to it as The Party of Stupid (or POS for short).
aarrgghh says:

January 13, 2010 at 6:56 am

dubya called it “a five spiral crash” and “a cruel hoax”:

may 2008 …

I was once in the Oval Office when the president was told a campaign event in Phoenix he was to attend with McCain suddenly had to be closed to the press. The president didn’t understand why when the whole purpose of holding the event had been to show Bush and McCain together so the press would stop asking why the two wouldn’t be seen together. If the event was closed to the press, the whole thing didn’t make sense.

“If he doesn’t want me to go, fine,” the president said. “I’ve got better things to do.”

Eventually, someone informed the president that the reason the event was closed was that McCain was having trouble getting a crowd. Bush was incredulous—and to the point. “He can’t get 500 people to show up for an event in his hometown?” he asked. No one said anything, and we went on to another topic. But the president couldn’t let the matter drop. “He couldn’t get 500 people? I could get that many people to turn out in Crawford.” He shook his head. “This is a five-spiral crash, boys.”

We tried to move on to something else. But the president wouldn’t let go. He was stuck on the Phoenix event. At one point, he looked off into space and said to no one in particular, “What is this—a cruel hoax?”

Chris and I were tickled by that comment. For weeks, we would look for ways to use it. “They are out of Diet Pepsis at the mess. What is this, a cruel hoax?” I went to dinner with a friend. “They don’t have cheeseburgers?” I said, looking at the menu. “What is this, a cruel hoax?”
Not That IvyNYC says:

January 13, 2010 at 11:17 am

Hey you, yeah, the one slapping your sausage-fingers on the keyboard of the magic light box– it’s called Google. Why don’t you look it up for yourself? Oh that’s right, because any sort of independent thought or intellectual curiosity directly conflcits for your need for an uber-daddy telling you how to think. My bad.
Not That IvyNYC says:

January 13, 2010 at 11:21 am

Sorry for the typos, folks. Ever try typing and beating your head against the desk at the same time? I don’t recommend it.
merl says:

January 13, 2010 at 3:47 pm

dennis hasn’t hijacked this thread? what is this, a cruel hoax?
jrfunkenstein says:

January 13, 2010 at 5:30 pm

‘Just keep in mind, farris, that we, as conservatives, are not as intelligent as our our fellow Americans on the left. They’re smarter than we are! Just ask them!’

Whose party ran McCain/Palin and continue to espouse her as a viable candidate?

Enough said.
Zython says:

January 13, 2010 at 8:02 pm

And once again, John Sullivan runs away with his tail between his legs. How conservative of him.