McCain jokes about suicide if Democrats win Senate

[Coexist]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/18/AR2006101801194.html

Reuters
Wednesday, October 18, 2006; 5:22 PM


DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Arizona Sen. John McCain, a likely Republican presidential contender in 2008, joked on Wednesday he would "commit suicide" if Democrats win the Senate in November.

McCain, on a visit to Iowa to campaign for Republican congressional candidates, was asked his reaction to a potential Democratic takeover of the Senate in the November 7 elections.

"I think I'd just commit suicide," McCain told reporters, to accompanying laughter from Republicans standing with him. "I don't want to face that eventuality because I don't think it's going to happen."

Democrats must pick up six seats in the Senate and 15 seats in the House of Representatives to win control of both chambers.

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. With luck, we will find out in a few weeks whether or not he is joking n/t

[marmar]

2. I guess he knows how we would feel if he became president...

:think:

[malaise]

3. Please win Dems

I'll load up on popcorn with butter to watch that.

[Suziq]

4. Well . . .

I hope he is planning on a painless method. :evilgrin:

[RB TexLa]

5. Hope he's ready to star in his opponents ads for 08

"When the going gets tough we know what John McCain plans to do."

[Coexist]

6. ha! that's great.

I was thinking, "well, NOW who is the GOP going to run in '08?".

[verse18]

7. McCain is an idiot.

Contemplating suicide is not a joke. I work in mental health and anyone making a statement like that would have a one-way ticket to the looney bin. We have people running the country who are certifiable.

That being said, vertical cuts work better than horizontal.

[Waya]

8. We couldn't get that lucky.......

.....have at it, I say.....

[Cosmocat]

9. He is foul ...

The only thing that makes him look even moderately attractive is that he is only moderately nuts, in a party full of raging lunatics ...

He was on Hardball yesterday, the first leg of the "college tour" at Iowa State ... It just is AMAZING the stuff that MSM people won't call him on, just because he is McCain, who they have deemed as the "straight talker" ... He is the SAME as any other republican, he just does not run from the same talking points ...

Mathews nailed the students out of the gates, which I was suprised about ... he asked the audience, who here is currently enlisted in some sort of military branch ... You could count the number who stood on two hands ... He then asked who supported the war in Iraq, and just short of half the audience stood ... He went into something else, before he asked who would be willing to enlist to support the Iraq war efforts ... You could count the number who stood on one hand ...

He called them on it, and McCain, who has spent the prior five minutes sucking their butts cried out "your showing your bias, Chris" ...

PATHETIC ...

[Crankie Avalon]

10. Rather that than to be man enough to face the music of hearings...

...on the un-American "president" he's been sucking up to and carrying water for, I guess.

[zbdent]

11. smell a special election to fill a vacated seat?

Huh, I just remembered ... no Republican ever keeps a campaign promise (unless it's to a billionaire) ...

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Go Ahead Johnny Boy!

Another idle threat from another conservative idiot.
The Professor

[Hubert Flottz]

13. Nazis always do that when they lose...

[Richard D]

14. Maybe we can take up a collection and buy him this

http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786704926.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.gif


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0786704926/

[peekaloo]

15. He publicly threatened a US Senator? Why wasn't he arrested?

:sarcasm:

Oh, I see, he's promising to help clean up the Senate. :evilgrin:

[watercolors]

16. Is that a promise?

Can we hold it to him, it 's a great idiea!

[tinfoilinfor2005]

17. I live on a boat so I have lots of extra rope.

I'll be happy to donate to the cause.

[uppityperson]

18. He will kill himself if his party loses power? What a whiner.

Jeez, just because your group isn't in power, you want to kill yourself?

[Xenotime]

19. Pugs hate him anyway.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

20. HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAA

Oh, those suicide jokes always crack me up. Nothin' funnier.



dumbass.

[thereismore]

21. Now there's a senator who can reach across the isle! Over his dead

body apparently.

[Hugin]

22. So much for all of the 'bipartisan' blather spewing forth lately.

:eyes:

[Ganja Ninja]

23. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help Senator. n/t

[Beelzebud]

24. I'll supply the rope/gun/knife/poison, whatever he chooses!