I wish I were kidding about this, but the indictment of another senior Republican is…. GOOD NEWS FOR JOHN MCCAIN:
The indictment of the senior senator from Alaska on corruption charges is yet another blow to the GOP brand.
But, as Jonathan Martin points out, it could be an opportunity for McCain: He and Stevens are old foes.
Kill me, but make it quick.
r€nato
Obama Landslide in November: Good News For John McCain!
Real American
You liberal fucknuts just don’t get it. Snubgate has killed your chances. Obama is tanking in the polls and it’s only going to get worse from here.
Carter and Iran.
Dukakis and the tank.
Kerry and the Swiftboaters.
Obama and snubbing the wounded soldiers.
This election is over.
Krista
And good news for Hillary!
Noah
Even skin cancer is good news for John McCain.
nightjar
Let’s hear it for the MCcain cheerleader corp in what we sadly call the Free Press. They can churn butter from shit faster than a speeding train.
Tax Analyst
Well, sure John…another corrupt Republican elected official. Definitely Good News For John McCain. I mean, folks have just GOT TO figure that ONE of them is honest. And right now McCain seems to be one of the few who are still un-convicted and un-indicted…at least for the time being.
Any more good news like this for McCain and he’s liable to pop a vein in his brain in exultation.
At this rate they’ll be able to hold the next Republican Caucus in a holding cell. I’d kinda like to see that.
TR
As I said at Politico:
rawshark
It’s a weird hybrid of doublethink and black/white. It does not matter what the facts may be. If they say it is good for the party then it IS good for the party. 2+2=5.
harlana pepper
Jeebus! Why didn’t you *warn* me about that Ted Stevens pic! I’m still crouching in the corner.
And I loves me some Greenwald, too. As on-target as a precision instrument, as always.
It has been only recently, in the last couple of years, that I have come to realize that the Democratic party I thought I knew just didn’t exist. That lesson goes down real hard.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
Well if you remove a bad egg from the group, the average goes up right? Which means that the GOP is actually more honest and less corrupt now that they’ve kicked Stevens out of the party, amiright?
They did kick Stevens out, didn’t they? Just like David Vitter?
Guys?
DannyNoonan
What I still don’t get is the reason for the media’s McCain Hard-On. What the hell is going on? The only explanation I can make of it is that after the 2000 Bush Date Rape, aka the Republican Primary, the press has taken on a Florence Nightingale persona, looking after McVictim. Screw this.
Just Some Fuckhead
Republicans always have branding opportunities. Democrats, OTOH, don’t have any core principles. In a sane world, constantly referring to your political identification as a “brand” that just requires better marketing would sorta indicate it is you that, in fact, doesn’t have any core principles.
But we don’t live in a sane world.
El Cid
This can only benefit John McCain, since the vast majority of the public remembers the famed Stevens-McCain fights of the 1920s, back when men knew how to settle disagreements!
demkat620
Guilt is part of it. They think they need to make up to him for what happened in 2000.
The other part of it is he is the leading Heather in Washington. Look no further than the joke he told about Chelsea Clinton. He feeds the press the nasty little tidbits of gossip about the rest of congress that the press knows they won’t ever print but they can’t live with out.
This senator just got hairplugs, this senator had botox, this one had an affair. This ones interns hate her. Never think the press likes him for no reason. He feeds them the crack they love.
jcricket
When McCain loses the election by a landslide, it will also be good for McCain (primarily because he can become a lobbyist, since he won’t have to pretend to despise them anymore).
AkaDad
OT
For those who are interested, the new season of Eureka starts tonight at 9:00 EST.
jrg
Jonathan Martin sounds like a brilliant campaign strategist. Someone call James Inhofe and ask him to suck off a goat on youporn.
DougJ
Here’s some good news for McCain though — the head of the AP political bureau is on his campaign’s pay roll:
AnneLaurie
At this rate they’ll be able to hold the next Republican Caucus in a holding cell. I’d kinda like to see that.
If we put it on YouTube, can the ad fees go towards the national debt?
Removing Stevens from the Senate — *if* that actually happens — to a federal penitentiary would be like Mark Twain’s remark about swapping the contents of a certain preacher’s head with the contents of a pie: An improvement for everybody, except the pie. Or the pen.
mattH
Nope. You get to suffer the painful, hackneyed campaign with the rest of us.
Heshe
McStain and Senator “Ted” are old foes? So what! They’re still kissing cousin party mates, members of that corrupt party. (As opposed to other party, the wimp party.)
Lincoln must be turning over in his grave right now. If someone were to go and stand over his grave, they might hear his bones clanking down there. They might even hear a muffled scream. Who could blame him?
August J. Pollak
Everything is excellent news for John McCain!
TenguPhule
The Onion has some serious competition.
Joey Giraud
The really rotten thing about the mega-corporate media is that we all pay attention to them.
Damn it, we have no choice!
gypsy howell
Well, they definitely are old – no question about that.
Of course, being old is good news for John McCain.
Napoleon
Well they don’t play it as a win for the Reps in my paper. The headline is “New Indictment spells problems for Republicans” and has a prominent quote highlighted “This reinforces the impression that the party has a lot of problems and a lot of dirty laundry”
Gus
Hell no. You’re suffering through this shit with the rest of us.
Tom65
Who outside of the Hart building knew that Ted Stevens and John McCain ever even spoke to each other?
maxbaer (not the original)
Old foes? That’s too bad. I was hoping Ted could give McCommodore64 a few pointers on the tubes.
maxbaer (not the original)
They can’t. They’re both gray-haired bundles of uncontrollable rage.
Delia
I’m wondering if they’ll have to use enhanced interrogation techniques on Senator Stevens. You know, to find out what he really did and if the internet is really a series of tubes.
Shalimar
I hear the now-fabled Iraq/Pakistan border is an opportunity for McCain to use our military against bin Laden in ways that other leaders would find impossible.