Time for me to baptize the next president: President Pissy McNASTY

[UTUSN]

For the past 8 years it's been easy for me calling Shrub Shrub and Tweety Tweety, but until now McNASTY hasn't rated the significance of being nicknamed.

Frankly, I'm throwing in the towel. We have two absolutely GREAT humans as candidates. McNASTY is a weak candidate, who ought to go down in flames, bigger crash than DOLE even without DOLE's strong third party detraction of numbers for him. But more than that, even before it was down to two, we had a plethora of great humans in the race. As is always the case, ANY Dem is better than ANY Rethug---smarter, more visionary, more idealistic, more public servant, more everything good.

I've been to a rally for one of the Dem candidates, and it drove home what everybody already knows: How gruelingly killing this ridiculous process is on mortals. We public had spent two hours waiting in cold weather line plus standing inside waiting, and just that was hard on US, so multiply this by a year or two of 3 or more of these events per day, every day, traveling, talking yourself RAW, sleep deprivation, endless meetings, endless confrontations with IDIOT media, and untold more.

Everybody knows the primary-caucus system is a total MESS: Over-hype for molehills, some states demanding super attention for INDIVIDUALS for a pittance of delegate votes, places where Rethugs can decide outcomes for OUR candidates, schedules where ONE state gets ALL attention and other states are bunched together and big-population states are scattered to the end, not to mention "super delegates."

This isn't a If-I-were-Bill-MAHER thread regarding fixing the system---regional primaries plus ditching the Electoral College ===everybody KNOWS the fixes. It's my personal captitulation thread of resignation TODAY under TODAY's system regarding how an inferior party and its candidate, Pissy McNASTY, will emerge the "winner" after this winnowing.

I escape labels except for "Democratic." I fall on this side of Hugo and Fidel but this side of Zell MILLER. In the core of my heart is the idealism of STEVENSON and the grit of HUMPHREY, but also the nuts and bolts of LBJ. But I will AND HAVE embraced what I regard as pie-in-the-sky-- those NOBLE Dem idealists who SHOULD rule in a perfect world THAT DOESN'T EXIST, and therefore they never DID win and never will.

DUers have posted to me here that I should be proud of having voted for McGOVERN. No, I'm not, because he had NO CHANCE OF WINNING. So what is his accomplished, institutionalized legacy (by actual laws and programs) today? Nothing, nada, zilch. Only the "winner" gets to IMPLEMENT anything. After the NOBLE, tearjerking concession speech (of which I've endured TOO MANY),

-----------including my earliest memory, of my mother and eldest sister crying over STEVENSON's (2nd) loss----------------

what we have left is President NIXON. In 1972 I wrote a letter to McGOVERN saying, I admire you, you are a great and decent human, and you would do great things for the country IF YOU WON, but you won't win, so please step aside and let some other Dem who MIGHT win do it. Too bad I lost the letter from him or at least signed by him. It said (the usual delusion of a human candidate deaf from the cheering in his ears), "Thanks, but I think I understand the issues and (have a good chance), blah blah."

Neither of our two great humans is going to step aside, much less RUN TOGETHER. We are already deeply wounded. So my conclusion is that it will be President Pissy McNASTY, and, despite his parental longevity, his son's citing how McNASTY is capable of a 30-mile hike, and his past physical endurance---whoever he picks as VP just might be likely to succeed to power. It just might be Jeb Crow Shrub, despite the supposed negatives because of Shrub. We just might end up with President Jeb Crow Shrub. Even though everybody says Jeb Crow Shrub can't run because of Shrub's unpopularity, I wouldn't put it past them. All the B.F.E.E. is behind McNASTY now, and they KNOW how to bide their time in the background and how to FIX elections (way before 2000, Poppy got the Iranians to KEEP the hostages till after the election), and they can say, "Jeb Crow Shrub is NOT the PRESIDENTIAL candidate, he's JUST the Veep." Then McNASTY gets in, croaks, and here we have pResident Jeb Crow Shrub after all. Even if not as VP, Jeb Crow Shrub will be a force in a McNASTY mal-administration and doubtlessly will LOOM ON us for years to come.

So up to now, the name "McCAIN" hasn't lent itself to nicknaming, but as my baptism of him in our dire future, in the link below comes "McNASTY," which has an organic derivation, just as "Tweety" came from Tweety's own staff, as relayed to the defunct website Media Whores Online in 2000. In the link below, it is said that D.C. insiders call McNASTY this. The "pissy" part is my reference to his being a pissant and his pissed-off tantrums.

So my Dem vote will be there as it always has been, but I'm getting ready for President McNASTY by this baptism and will be splitting the moniker "Oldest-person-named'Cindy'" between Cindy McNASTY and wingnut gossiper Cindy ADAMS. It could have been worse for Cindy McNASTY: The few times I've seen pics of her, it could have been "Walking Stick" which also references her MONEY (as in "diamond stick pin").

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http://www.nypost.com/seven/02172008/gossip/pagesix/pagesix_u.htm

.... He torpedoed claims that his father has a volcanic temper, a reputation that's earned the former Vietnam POW the nickname "McNasty" among Washington politicos. "It cracks me up when I hear about this crazy temper because I've lived with him for almost 22 years and I've never seen it," Jack said, although he admitted, "If I screwed up, I'd know it."

Asked about his father reportedly telling another senator "(bleep) you" in a debate over an immigration bill, Jack said, "He probably deserved it . . . (My dad) isn't a bland politician. He's candid." Jack also shot down assertions that John, 71, is too old to be commander-in-chief, noting they hiked 30 miles together across the Grand Canyon last summer.

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[Straight Shooter]

1. Good post, but I'll quibble with you on his choice of a veep.

The GOP is well aware that they're in a bad way. They look at Obama, they see charisma is the ticket to ride, and they will choose a candidate blessed with charisma who has appeal to indies and moderates. There's no way anyone can look at McCain without thinking he's got one foot in the grave, and my guess is a lot of burnt-out Repubs, indies and moderates will hope that God intervenes, remove McCain, and they'll have the ideal president.

Of course, the problem remains in finding that charismatic GOP'er. I think Jeb is radioactive with the last name bush. Gordon Smith of Oregon would be a good choice. He's quite nice-looking, he works very well with his fellow Senator, Ron Wyden, he's criticized bush on the handling of the occupation of Iraq but not spoken against the war per se, and he'd be a big draw for the Northwest states.

[Olney Blue]

2. Charismatic GOP'er? That's ain't gonna be easy!

[UTUSN]

3. Thanks for ALWAYS being polite & civilized. I don't recognize ANY of the names you cite

If not Jeb Crow Shrub, he might pick -------no,not Condo------


Actually, the Rethugs are in BIG trouble. And yet, my point in the o.p. is, THEY MIGHT AND PROBABLY WILL --------win.