McCain campaign gives Flip-Flops to reporters on plane

[RamboLiberal]

This morning, aboard John McCain's Straight Talk Express jet, one of the Arizona senator's favorite traveling companions -- Steve Duprey, who co-chaired McCain's Republican primary effort in New Hampshire and has been hanging around ever since -- handed out little customized bottles of McCain sunscreen.

News reporters on the plane also received yellow-and-blue flip-flops printed with the message "McCain ... Another Day at the Beach."

Certainly the sunscreen -- SPF 30 -- is an excellent idea for McCain, who still bears the faint scars of surgery for melanoma on the left side of his face.

But flip-flops?

Isn't that a rather dangerous form of footwear for a senator who has been accused by some in his own party of changing his positions on issues such as immigration reform and tax cuts?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/07/this-morning-ab.html

[MrCoffee]

1. "Another Day at the Beach"...they really want to give off that vibe?

I thought they were trying to distance themselves from Chimpy McCokefiend.

[SoxFan]

2. Steve Duprey is a fraud

Steve Duprey ran for Congress in NH-02 in 1992. Despite being the well-funded "Establishment" favorite, he lost to a knuckledragging right winger.

The reason?

A brutally effective mail and media campaign pointing out Duprey's flip-flops.

Duprey had been a moderate-to-liberal one term state rep in the late 1970s, but tried to position himself as a firebreathing conservative to appeal to the then-ascendant Buchananite wing of the GOP.

He was a fraud then, and he's a fraud now.

[zbdent]

3. another day at the beach ... for McCain ...

where his hardest questions will be asked about how horrible the peaceniks had treated him when he came back from Vietnam ...

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

4. That's pretty brave. I was waiting to hear that they have a pic of Obama on them...

[uponit7771]

5. He didn't flip flop, he has demintia...he doesn't remember shit