The Company They Keep

Dirty Harry on Darth Queeg's volcanic temper:

[I included the Redlasso link since their crummy players never load on my site.]

I must admit, I'm mystified as to what Senator Pencil-Neck's problem is with Sailor's hair-trigger blithering reflex; the only time he ever unleashes it is at Republicans who won't follow his "maverick" lead.  With his fellow Dems, he's the epitome of equanimity.  I'd think Reid would love that kind of thing in the White House.  I mean, it's not like McCain wouldn't sign all the same hard-left legislation BO would, or like congressional Dems won't make clear to either one who the REAL bosses are in the post-Bush Beltway.

Some Jewish Dems seem amenable to tolerating Mt. Maverick.  For some reason, the junior staff writer at Hot Air thinks that's a good thing:

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is attracting elite Jewish Democratic donors who backed Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (NY) and are concerned about Senator Barack Obamas (D-IL) stance toward Israel, say McCain backers who are organizing the effort to court Democrats.

McCain has already had several fundraising events with Jewish Democrats in Washington and Florida, say his supporters.

He also has the backing of Democrat-turned-Independent Senator Joe Lieberman (CT), who made history as the first Jewish vice presidential candidate and has recently raised questions about Obamas foreign policy vision for the Middle East.

Stephen Muss, the Florida developer, is the biggest Democratic donor and fundraiser to pledge his support for McCain and the Republican National Committee, said a GOP official. Muss has given tens of thousands of dollars to help Democratic candidates in recent years, including $80,000 to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in 2000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics and CQ MoneyLine.

Hard not to notice that there are no hard dollar amounts to Team Sith quoted in this article.  I'm assuming this cross-over (so to speak) is supposed to be a big deal.  Since the Jewish jackass community isn't all that big demographically, it would have to cough up for Lord Queeg out of all proportion to its numbers in order to have any kind of impact given the hundreds of millions St. Barack is expected to vaccuum up between now and November.  And while one can see, given his long anti-Israel baseline reinforced by the raving anti-Semitism of his various and sundry "mentors," why these ex- (and perhaps still future) Hillarynistas would be more hestitant about closing ranks behind Lucifer than most Donks, you also have to wonder whether they'd have thought contributing and working toward a genuine "third Bush term" via a Fred Thompson or Mitt Romney worth stopping the man who not all that long ago claimed that "no one has suffered more than the Palestinians".

Rhetorical query, of course.  They know McCain is as big a domestic liberal as Obama.  By backing him, they can have their "kitchen table socialism" and continued backing of Israel too.  Or at least not active hostily and opposition.

I guess that's a positive thing for Maverick.  How it's good for Republicans or conservatives is anybody's guess.

Or even him, as, just as I have long predicted, there doesn't seem to be any "bipartisanship" anywhere else in the party of Bill & Hillary:

They may not be falling in love, but they're falling in line.

Prominent supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton are embracing Barack Obama, literally and figuratively, even though some remain bitter about her loss in a presidential primary process that they feel treated her unfairly.

In several key states this week, Obama is being joined on stages by top Democrats who, a few weeks ago, were working to deny him the nomination.

"I know I'm late, but I am on the train," North Carolina Governor Mike Easley said Monday in introducing Obama in Raleigh. "I'd rather be a bum on the boxcar of the Obama train than at the front of the bus with John McCain," he said of Obama's Republican opponent.

A predictably burgeoning sentiment.  Names like Ohio Governor Ted Strickland and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, who were instrumental in running up lopsided primary election victories for the Empress in their states, are on that list, as well as feminazi pro-infanticide groups like EMILY's List that are said to be "in mourning" over Mrs. Clinton's alleged "defeat."

Oh, ye of little faith, "ladies," why do you doubt?  Your heroine isn't finished yet.

But McCain is.  Looks like all those years of cultivating the press and "walking across the aisle, putting on the other team's uniform, and singing their fight song" to "woo" Dems and "independents" at the expense of his own party's supporters is proving, on balance, to have been a disastrous mistake.  Just as I suspected would be the case.

But you know what they say: "In for a penny, in for a pound."  Sailor has short-sheeted his own electoral bed, and he gives every indication of intending to sleep in it.  This includes repudiating such basic base cultivating gestures as not even being in the same zip code with Vice President Dick Cheney other than to spit on him:

Dick Cheney may not be called on to play any role at all in the 2008 presidential bid of presumptive Republican nominee John McCain, sources say, because the vice president’s levels of unpopularity are too high and the ill-will McCain and Cheney have had in the past is too great.

“I don’t think the McCain people want Cheney anywhere near him,” says a former Cheney aide.

Cheney spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, says the vice president hasn’t yet campaigned for McCain and, to her knowledge, hasn’t been asked.

One reason McBride gives as to why McCain might not want Cheney campaigning for him this political season is the rocky relationship the two have had in recent years, especially over former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

McCain in the past has said Rumsfeld, a close friend and mentor of Cheney, will "go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history."

On a list that includes such luminaries of incompetence and mediocrity as Robert McNamara, Harold Brown, Les Aspin, William Perry, and William Cohen?  Yeah, sure, anything you say, Mav.  You didn't like Big Dog because he challenged too many Pentagon premises, bureaucratic shiboleths, and sacred cows that needed challenging.  The tattered remnant of a military he inherited from the Clintonoids was a Cold War-configured force that, had there still BEEN a Cold War, would have been too small to carry out its mission.  Eight months into his tenure the holiday from history ended, we were in a new kind of war, and the military had to adapt.  It didn't want to; Rummy made them anyway; and the brass bitched and moaned to you.  And you're notorious for turning differences with your "fellow" Republicans into blood feuds.  Big Time was Rummy's ally, so he got on your enemy's list as well.

But is carrying a grudge like it was a Volkswagon and those precious Donk/"independent" votes you're not going to get really worth forfeiting even the meager, bleak hopes of pulling a November upset?  Some of your "fellow" Pachyderms don't think so:

Cheney sympathizers believe the Vice President can be helpful to McCain’s chances of winning the White House in November. Cheney, they say, could help McCain shore up what is proving to be his weakest GOP constituency – hardcore Bush Administration supporters.

Translation: genuine Republicans. 

“Instead of pushing the Vice President away, I’d use him to build bridges with various conservative constituencies,” says Cesar Conda, a lobbyist who worked for Cheney during the Vice President’s first term.

“That’s where the party really needs him, because the conservative base is in the doldrums.”

It's in "the doldrums" because it's going unrepresented in this election cycle.  Something to which McCain, with the veep choices he's mulling, is giving self-debilitating confirmation.

But never let it be said of us that we aren't capable of a little bipartisanship ourselves.  Meet Jodie Evans: Code Pink founder, Obama bundler/apologist, jihadi-sympathizer, and the all-around Cindy Sheehanoid Barry will claim isn't the woman he thought she was not too long from now at a presser near you:

Traitorous animals like this vulva are being rewarded not just with representation, but almost certain victory, while the disspirited, disenfranchised remnant that still believes in God, guns, broads, blogs, Buicks, Buckley (God rest his soul), patriotism, freedom, capitalism, Rush rooms, anything with teriyaki on it (even cheesecake), and the Jem'Hadar motto that "victory is life", who know we didn't "bring 9/11 on ourselves" and don't want to live under self- or externally-imposed sharia law - well, it seems we're SOL.

Strange as it may seem, Barack Hussein Obama continues to attract traitorous animals, domestic terrorists, Black Klansman, "White Chocolate" Klansman, and entire bevvies of crooks, swindlers, and fixers.  And yet Messiah stills sits on his Great Black Throne and continues to plaintively mutter, "I never knew you.  Really, who are you people?  Security!"

I guess the difference between the two candidates is that Obama pretends to repudiate the fringes of his base most like him, but does such an unconvincing job of it that nobody outside his cult takes his disavowals seriously; whereas McCain spent the primary season pretending to embrace his base, was just as unconvincing, and is now dropping all pretense of it.

It's not the difference between victory and defeat; but it will be the difference between a respectable showing and a massacre.