23 thoughts on “More Wine, Garcon!”

  1. Again, that is why I voted for Senator McCain, event though he made the huge mistake of picking Gov. Palin as his running mate. So don’t blame me 🙂

  2. The ONLY reason I did not vote “Present” given the MSM’s anointed nominees was McCain’s unexpected choice of a running mate. Palin >> Biden. In all things.

    /thread hijack

  3. I seriously doubt she was ignorant of the distinction. Maybe three sheets to the wind, but more likely she wanted to put him “in his place”.

  4. I would have thought her rude, and a bit clueless, but I would still get her the glass of wine. It is what a gentleman does.

  7. Thomas Matula:
    McCain would have lost by 20 points if he hadn’t picked Palin. So I wouldn’t call it a mistake.

    If it weren’t for the stock market crash, she might have dragged his sorry ass across the finish line.

  8. From the article:

    “The guy dutifully went up and got her a glass of wine, and then came back and gave it to her and took a seat at the table,” our tipster said.

    He sat down at her table without an invitation? OMG, what a thug!

  9. Rickl,

    Evidence? She turned off the moderates and they decide elections. She bought nothing but noise to the election.

    You pick a Vice-President to get Electoral votes and move you towards the center. That is why President Obama did when he picked Senator Biden.

    Alaska was already in Senator McCain’s column. Picking some respectable like Gov. Romney could have brought him Michigan, Ohio and Massachusetts, all major NE states. And Gov. Romney had the economic credentials that Senator McCain lacked.

    Sorry, politics is not about emotion, its about strategy. If you don’t use it you won’t win.

  10. Thomas, I know you hate to have your fantasies disrupted by reality, but McCain was leading following the Palin pick, with a big uptick. His polls plummeted only after he decided to quit his campaign to fix the fiscal problem, at which his attempts were a massive fail.

  11. She turned off the moderates

    Not moderate women, Thomas.

    Additionally, I think you’re guilty of anachronism. Palin had very little conservative record in 2008, nowhere near the record she has now. About all anyone knew of her was that she was Republican, a woman, a governor with a good track record of bipartisanship, had worked her way through college and worked her way up in politics from mayor, and could kill and cook her own food.

    Only in the years since the election has she become a polarizing figure, and in no small part I think that is due to extreme distortion of her record and speech by a media desperately trying to silence her, because she reminds all the beta males in the business of the smashing athletic high-school girl who laughed when they stammered out an invitation to the prom.

    In fact, her actual positions are fairly moderate for the Republican Party. Certainly on social issues she’s pretty mainstream, not markedly different from, say, President Obama. Its only on tax and spend issues that she is “radical,” and even then not much more radical than the average independent voter.

  13. Spatula’s PDS rant is like a familiar crackhead slumped in an alleyway — twisted, revolting and inappropriate, but after walking past it every day, you kinda miss it when it’s not there…

  14. Going back to the original post, well, the Daily Caller story is actually unbelievable. She’s sitting at a table with other military officers but can’t tell that the guy behind her isn’t a waiter? Even after the general sits down at her table?

    If you believe this story, I have a bridge for sale in Brooklyn…

  15. Of course it’s believable — people make mistakes all the time. They are even, on occasion, rude. To wit:

    Even after the general sits down at her table?

    The story doesn’t say what she did after he took a seat. See, you make a mistake right there. Not so incredible.

  16. Actually, Chris, I can believe you have a bridge in Brooklyn that you think you own. Did you pay cash?

  17. Rand,

    [[[His polls plummeted only after he decided to quit his campaign to fix the fiscal problem, at which his attempts were a massive fail.]]]

    Which is where Gov. Romney, with his financial experience would have proven invaluable. First, he would have probably talked him out of quitting his campaign. Second, Gov. Romney would have been a creditable point man to deal with it for Senator McCain. By contrast Gov. Palin had even less of a clue then Senator McCain about what was happening to the economy.

  18. Carl,

    The key with a vice-presidential pick is to strengthen your candidacy. The mere fact she wasn’t seen as a lead weight at the time was not sufficient for selecting her.

  20. Have you all noticed that Valerie Jarrett does not, like, get out much?

    We see David Axlerod on all of the Sunday morning TV shows, but we don’t see much of Valerie Jarrett. I get this feeling that the other Obama advisors want to keep her out of the public spotlight.

    No, this is not a partisan attack on the Obama administration or its policies or any such thing. This is just a simple observation, that it seems her colleagues don’t seem to want her speaking much publically on behalf of the President.

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