This place is the gift that keeps on giving. Via the comments section at the GOS, we see that you can also purchase the McCain Nautical Lapel Pin for the modest price of $200.00:
Take it away, GOS:
The flippin’ $200 boat lapel pin (what’s this, a yacht tax?), spells his initials with nautical flags. Thing is, nautical flags also refer to conditions. The flags mean:
J – Juliet – On Fire, Keep Clear
S – Sierra – Engines Going Astern
M – Mike – I Am StoppedPerfect metaphor for the whole dang campaign.
We rate this a “Heh-Indeedy!”
PaulW
Towels, John. Just stick to selling towels…
Incertus
That is too fucking funny. It’s almost as though McCain’s campaign has been infiltrated with Democratic operatives–or conversely, that it’s been staffed with fucking morons.
dianeb
If people had only known to consult the flags 8 years ago.
G–Golf–Want a Pilot
W–Whiskey–Requite Medical Assistance
B–Bravo–Dangerous Cargo
ThymeZone
I am looking forward to the “John McCain Reporting For Duty” acceptance speech.
pfrets
Damn…screen, meet coffee spray.
That was too damn funny.
OriGuy
B – Bravo – Dangerous Cargo
H – Hotel – Pilot On Board
O – Oscar – Man Overboard
Not sure that’s any better, although I like the “Pilot On Board”. Maybe the “Man Overboard” is GWB.
OriGuy
Now that I think about it, after seeing dianeb’s comment, it makes perfect sense. Bush is the dangerous cargo, Obama is the pilot who comes onboard to guide the ship, and tosses the dangerous cargo overboard.
Dennis - SGMM
You guys are going to eat your words when you see the John McCain Lunch Box. At only $750 per, average working guys will snap them up to show their support for Johnny.
TheFountainHead
I’m sorry, but who sat down at a meeting and said, “You know what, nautical lapel pins are a great idea!”
fuddmain
The perfect vessel for cottage cheese lime jello salad.
jake
[Wipes chili from monitor]
What a beautiful thing. As an added bonus, yacht pins are not at all elitist.
RSA
I can’t be the only one immature enough to think that the initials J[i]SM are an attempt to counteract the bad press about McCain’s advanced age, can I? Maybe Bob Dole was consulted on this one.
abiodun
This lapel pin better be made of gold or silver! In any case, it is dumb.
abiodun
I meant gold or diamond!
Bubblegum Tate
I’d even go so far as to rate it as a “Heh–Indizzley-dozzley-doo!”
I know he’s dead and all, but I keep expecting Allen Funt to jump out from behind McCain’s backdrop to let everybody in on the joke.
jibeaux
It’s awesome, and it’s sequential, for heaven’s sake. We are currently in On Fire, Keep Clear. Election Day will start with Engines Going Astern, to be followed rapidly by I Am Stopped.
rob!
even Allen Funt knew you don’t use sickly green on TV.
dr. bloor
McCain Nautical Lapel Pin
“Looks like the bees knees on your yachting blazer, or even better, your favorite lady’s blue dress.”
brklyngrl
Looks like Nautical McCain comes in a hat, too. Going for the all-important yachting demographic this campaign season, I see.
Also, am I correct in assessing that the McCain store, with the exception of $50 Ladies Polo, does not offer any women’s apparel?
Zifnab
I think it indicates he’s going to turn the ship of state into a cruise missile of America-hating suicide bomber hood.
SpotWeld
Why would anyone pay $200 to look like the night manager of a Long John Silver’s?
Dreggas
But hey, it’s a lapel pin with flags on it AMIRITE!?!
wingnuts to iraq
they say a man should always dress for the job he wants…
jake
Hmm. That would mean the pink and lime green polos are for men.
Yeah I know pink is OK. But not THAT pink. And not from the Mantastic Men club that is the GOP.
Note: There’s no excuse to wear that color green. Ever.
Liz
Wow, yachting-themed lapel pins, golf supplies… yup, courting the regular joe. At least the regular joes with yachts or golf clubs.
JC
I’m voting against McSame, just like any other rational being – but there is another like at GOS, that actually, make me like the guy more.
Link here
He could be posting HERE at Balloon Juice, and get along just fine:
Is there someone who thinks that Johnson ISN’T a liar?
What’s not to like about that?
Pete Domenici IS an asshole!!
Ha-ha! Belongs here on Balloon Juice!!
JC
Note, of course, that if Obama was found using this type of language, it would be the end of him – the “angry black man”, and all.
IOKIYAAR, is still indeed in full force.
JGabriel
Ah, but my favorite part is the In The News section (emphasis added):
Six stories, and five of them feature Obama?
Thanks for the free advertising, John.
Seriously, ‘News’ sections at similiar sites are usually a mix of PR releases and links to news stories emphasizing the candidate’s own positive achievements. I’m guessing McCain doesn’t have any?
I mean, they’re not doing anything to promote McCain as a candidate, just tearing at Obama. They’re making no appeal to anyone outside of McCain’s already diminishing base.
Weird and incompetent. And pretty funny.
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Martin
Laura Bush’s Airstream. (h/t Wonkette)
McCain should sell these on his website. I wonder if they slow the plane down to 20MPH when going over mountains when that thing is on board?
JGabriel
JC:
Better here than the Oval Office…
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RSA
Check out the Republican National Committee Web page. 8 mentions of Obama, 0 of McCain. You’d never know who the Republican candidate was, from reading their front page.
cleek
Keith
It looks like some combo move for a PS3 game: “Smile” “Give a thumbs up” “Insult your wife”
JGabriel
The Fountainhead:
Honestly, I’m more interested in the guy who responded, “Yeah! And $200 would be a great price point!”
Now that’s a fucking idiot.
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cbear
What’s next?
Captain HazelwoodJohn McCain nautical bobblehead dolls for $1000.Cyrus
I liked that one. Maybe I should just follow the link, but I’m unclear on how that’s an attack. “Barack Obama says he voted with President Bush ‘for the most part,'”… but not always? For shame, Obama. Or, alternately, maybe McCain is saying that Obama shouldn’t have even voted for Bush that much? Or saying that Obama is only pretending to be liberal now but he actually has been willing to work with the administration? Or the reverse, that they can take for granted that he hasn’t voted with Bush much so if Obama’s saying he has, then he’s lying?
The Moar You Know
I keep trying to think of ways to troll McCain supporters but McCain keeps coming up with better ideas than mine.
JGabriel
RSA:
And filled with photos and montages of Obama with nary a sight of McCain to be found.
Instead of “Vote McCain”, the campaign theme really is “Vote Against The Negro”.
Jackasses.
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Cyrus
And re: the original post, to be fair, we can’t read too much into the meaning of the nautical signs, because something like of those are distress signals of various kinds. Anyone whose initials include only the following letters A, B, D, E, F, J, M, N, O, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y or Z would wind up looking pretty stupid, if rendered to nautical signal flags.
slag
What else would you expect from a man who calls his wife the “Seaward”?
JGabriel
The Moar You Know:
You should check out the Rick Davis Strategy Briefing, wherein Davis’s Powerpoint presentation shows 537 Electoral votes, rather than the correct 538.
They had a lot of fun with that over at Nate Silver’s (aka Poblano) website the other night.
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phobos
They used to have a web poll on their “Meet Barack Obama” ratfuck page. Something along the lines of “Do you think Barack Obama is qualified to be president? (yes/no)”. The results were apparently not what they expected.
Being quick on their feet, they’ve since changed it to “What do you believe to be Barack Obama’s greatest weakness as a Presidential Candidate?”.
Internet savvy, we haz it.
Thelonius
Laura Bush’s
Airstreamdog crateFEMA trailer.cleek
another reason to have avoided a sea-flag lapel pin in the first place.
nightjar
Hey it takes a lot of Deutschmarks to run against Putin for PResident of Germany.
Grumpy Code Monkey
I am so screwed.
I am On Fire, Disabled, and Carrying Dangerous Cargo.
Dreggas
the only thing weak is his opponent.
Voice of Reason
A $200 yachting pin, and somehow Obama is the elitist?
NonWonderDog
“All purchases are contribution to John McCain 2008 and count toward your contribution limit.”
So, kickbacks. Donate $50, get some golf balls; donate $200, get a nautical-themed pin; donate $100,000 in bundles, get favourable legislation rammed through congress. In the McCain campaign, bribery works on a sliding scale.
BM
Hmm. $200 for a pin? Is this a loophole in campaign finance limits and reporting requirements? What’s to stop Jack Abramoff from anonymously buying 1000 John McCain Yacht Lapel Pins?
AnneLaurie
What was the name of the clueless rich fvck character on Gilligan’s Island — Thurston Howell III? Didn’t he wear a yatching costume, too?
KRK
I don’t know. They’re pretty on the money for me:
Kilo – I wish to communicate with you.
Romeo – no meaning (alt. meaning: Preparing to replenish. snack?)
Kilo – I wish to communicate with you
jake
Yers, Lovey.
Calouste
McCain probably thinks they still use Deutschmarks in Germany, although he is most likely to refer to them as Reichsmarks.
Should Know Better
“Pushing someone off the yatch’ is the new ‘throwing someone under the bus’!
Blue Raven
I am Dangerous Cargo Disabled, Stand Clear. Pleasure to meet you.
rawshark
Why should they? McCain’s running for president against a black guy. Why bother to make your case. Just keep the focus on his skin color and wait for all the ‘I’ll never let a black man be president of my country’ people to do your work for you.
maxbaer (not the original)
That’s beautiful! I really hope that it catches on.
Notorious P.A.T.
Win.
ByerlyTurk
On a more serious note, you might find it interesting how this dovetails into what some people have been saying for 41 years about McCain’s role in the USS Forrestal fire that killed 138(?) sailors…
The admirial’s son gets the whitewash. This also occurred about a month after the USS Liberty incident in the Med.
Am I the only one that notes that the man is named after the first murderer?
christine
Obama’s lapel pin: $10.
McCain’s lapel pin: (2) $150., $200
Obama’s Embroidered Fleece Blanket $30.
McCain Embroidered Fleece Blanket $75.
Polly Wonka
I hope they will sell a makeup kit stencilled with McCain’s favorite “C” word for his wife.
PeterJ
That would be
Yes
Standing into Danger
No
Keep Clear
Armando
“I christen thee The Flying WASP.”
Ah yes, but Obama is the elitist? This does give me a wonderful idea though; I’m gonna take my FREE MoveOn.org Obama 08 sticker and put it on my two person kayak.
I wonder what Johnny ‘Stray Talk Express”, Judge & Mrs. Smails will think of that?
Stop Depleted Uranium
I just got an 800 dollar hearing aid from the store… it comes without a battery compartment to easily keep those pesky facts out.
I love it and ordered several more for my family and friends.
madhaus
John, thanks for getting my comment some wider readership. I did follow it up with a full-on diary (article) a couple of days later, but sometimes less is more.
Also check out this ridiculous puff-piece press release from McCain Campaignbots, giving Johnny the back-pat for selling the pins at such a markup while reminding everyone of his Navy days. Wonder how many McPapers ran it as is?
madhaus
Ok, here’s a link to another really funny take on the nautical pin — it’s bloody WINDOWS.