Isn't the general perception that McCain hates him* too much for that to happen? I guess there's the JFK/LBJ precedent, but ...

* I mean, even more than he hates everybody else.

can someone finally tell me why he was named for a baseball glove?

And Joe B, I suspect that McCain/Romney is exactly the way the ticket will play out. Everybody will smile at Huckleberry like you smile gently at a distant relative who is sick and won't be getting well, paying oh-so-respectful comments to the Jeebofundy crowd who (in violation of several portions of Exodus) regard him in an idolatrous manner.

Meanwhile, they are about to nominate somebody six years older than God with a history of recurrent cancer for chrissakes. Of course they want the audio-animatronic Mittster for backup/assassination insurance. Plus this plays into the happy-harmonic-convergence mantra the media has going on, with McCain the "foreign policy expert whose major act was getting caught by the enemy" balanced by Mitt the "genius at buying, stripping, raping and dumping American jobs overseas" the economics dude.

Oh I am so rubbing my hands at this scenario. Micky O'Cane and the Mittster...

that's the kind of M&Ms that come in the package. unless the dems really kill themselves this time around, it's hard to see how they'll lose. which means of course, they will try to.

We could be totally pandering to the progressive base. And what happens? I don't know whether to puke or go blind.

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

You are after all talking about the first woman and the first black person with a serious shot at a major party nomination for heaven's sake, much less actual election to the office of President.

It is massively ironic that the person who has his party's nomination locked up is still having to grovel to the most lunatic faction thereof, losing in the process his claim to the "Straight Talk" label.

Whereas our people-- who are longtime committed triangulating centrists to begin with-- are going (grrrr) out of their way to appeal to the Mushy Middle and "open minded/disgusted Republicans" both of which groups are far more likely to sit home watching American Idol or playing Wii or something on election day than vote at all.

Does nobody else see how hard the Powers That Be are working to guarantee a Democratic victory this fall? How else to explain the flailing incoherent industrial-grade fuckup which has been the R. primary contest, with nobody of anything resembling national standing even running and the "stunning resurgence" of McCain after he was written off, correctly, for dead last summer?

As usual the best tactic is to watch for the "helpful suggestions" of concern trolls like George Will. His dropping in his latest column is all about how the evils of Early Voting are going to make us fuck up and pass over the Glorious O for stale ol' Hillary, who of course McCain will stomp all over.

As if. Concern trolls are always your most reliable sources of What Not to Do or Even Worry About.

Point being, a Democratic victory is almost guaranteed this fall because it is in too many people's interests to have one of Us in power when the really massive T-rex sized turds start hitting the fans. The fact that, as always, the Democrat in the White House will fix the economy that they've wrecked is the real intent. Like anything that's been burned, it has to be allowed to heal before they can skin it again.